McPoisin laments the missing man at O’Reilly’s
Gordon Brown's former special adviser Damian McBride and Conservative parliamentary candidate Will Blair may seem like unlikely friends, but they bonded together over a few jars at O'Reillys [...]
Kentish Town
An ice cream at a carnival
THE Ham and High’s fine photographer Polly Hancock caught a flavour of summer last month with her picture of a two year-old girl having fun with ice cream smeared [...]
‘Yes we Joshua’: Former Kentish Town man takes on West Yorkshire swing seat
JOSHUA Fenton-Glynn, remember him? You know, Josh. Josh Josh. Well, the Halifax Courier reports he’s been selected as the Labour candidate in Calder Valley, West [...]
False start? New Boris Bus breaks down in Kentish Town
WE are all supposed to be delighted that the bendy buses are gone and a big red vehicle based on the old Routemasters is hitting London’s roads on Boris Johnson’s [...]
Ed Milibandman
PAVAN Amara’s exclusive about geeky Labour leader Ed Miliband not being geeky jumped from the pages to the New Journal this morning to virtually every national [...]
Bye bye to the Bull and Gate’s big bang
I NEVER saw Coldplay live at the Bull and Gate. Thousands seem to claim they did. The back room can hold about 200 and I think Coldplay played there twice in their early [...]
Anybody seen that snake?
THE police helicopter has been circling Kentish Town this afternoon. You might have heard the blades shuddering or kept up on what their search for a man sadly suffering from [...]
Blake’s birthday
NOTORIOUS double agent George Blake celebrates his 90th birthday in Moscow this week, telling an official Russian government newspaper: “I’m a happy person, a [...]
Jubilee in Kentish Town…. 1935 style
WHATEVER you think of this weekend’s celebrations for 60 years of an unelected head of state in the United Kingdom – yeee ha, for an unelected head of state – the [...]
Kentish Town loses its exuberance
SOMETIMES the shortest letters to newspapers are the best. From last week’s New Journal: THE repainted “Kentish Town” has lost its exclamation mark. It was that [...]