FRANK Dobson was once, famously, asked to shave off his Santa beard by Tony Blair’s spin team, an idea which no doubt led to him extending a couple of fingers and [...]
WE know Labour’s candidates won in Hampstead and Kilburn, and Holborn and St Pancras – but what happened to other faces who have been part of north London’s [...]
KNIGHTY KNIGHT IN KENT THE Conservatives may talk about Hampstead and Kilburn being one of their key targets at the general election, if not the main one. But, for special [...]
NOT so long ago, the BBC was presenting Piers Wauchope as a posh passer-by, vox-popping him for his political views without explaining the fact that he is a UKIP [...]
ONE of the first things they used to teach in hack school was to get names, where possible, for your story. It’s probably not these days, the way journalism has [...]
AS UKIP get ready for their earthquake in Clacton today, with defector Douglas Carswell expected to win a by-election he himself triggered when switching sides, here’s [...]
FORMER Camden Tory leader Piers Wauchope’s notoriously pulped history of Camden politics – the imaginatively titled: Camden, a political history – grants [...]
20.30 BLOOMSBURY THE final stop and the best polling station, the beautiful RADA Studios at the Drill Hall. Yes, yes – I know the tour did not reach Kentish Town, [...]
ONE leftover from last week is Conservative group leader Claire-Louise Leyland’s speech at full council in which she appealed for a new way of doing things at Town Hall [...]
WITH conference season at a close, one of the things I keep being told is: ‘I bet you wish you had gone to the Ukip one, that looked like a lot of fun’. Needless [...]