Football pays tribute to one of the big political figures of the 1980s…
CAMDEN Council has been asked to think about stopping for a minute’s silence in honour of Margaret Thatcher at Monday’s full council meeting. How do you think the [...]
Michael Foot
How Michael Foot joked that Nye Bevan could use stammering to his advantage
LISTEN: Michael Foot recalls Nye Bevan’s stammer at home in Hampstead MOCKED from the government benches for a couple of stumbles in the Autumn Statement debate on [...]
Wool coat journalism
“Hampstead became not so much a collection of streets as a Labour-themed game of Monopoly. Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour Prime Minister, lived in Frognal, where, [...]
Michael Foot’s magic trick
PEOPLE often talk about Labour’s dark days under Michael Foot. The biggest electoral defeat of 1983 was easy to recall for his critics. But they didn’t seem so [...]
Papa Miliband to miss Foot bash?
ANYBODY with a heart for the Labour Party’s past or admiration for a genuine campaigning journalist will be at a special memorial event in honour of the late Michael [...]
‘My own way’
CAMDEN Council’s former education chief Nick Smith has made his debut in the House of Commons. His maiden speech included this grand description of a historic baton [...]
Conrad’s scoop
A FEW posts back I said journalist Tom Foot had basically scooped the final interview with his great uncle, Michael Foot, with his piece about Arsenal and Plymouth Argyle [...]
I will go on protesting
IN the overspill area at the back of Golders Green crematorium, we watched the farewell to Michael Foot on a blotchy black and white monitor that looked like it was streaming [...]
Meanwhile, in Ebbw Vale..
WELL, well, well.. Now, there’s a familiar face looking chumsville wth Michael Foot. Taken from a Labour election website, was this the moment Nick Smith, Camden [...]
Huge and less huge
FEAR not Holly Shaw in Brixton, your letter did get in the Sunday Mirror after all. Rest assured, the world has seen your written celebration of Kelly Osbourne’s weight [...]