Beard of the year: Piers Wauchope
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 [...]
Piers Wauchope
Elected? How North London spread out across the ballot paper
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 [...]
Evening update 25.04.15: An excursion to Thanet
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 [...]
Let’s put Piers in the firing line
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 [...]
Nick Robinson’s vox-pop of ordinary people voting 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 [...]
UKIP’s old-fashioned anarchist
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 [...]
H&StP: The Siege of Bayham Street
FORMER Camden Tory leader Piers Wauchope’s notoriously pulped history of Camden politics – the imaginatively titled: Camden, a political history – grants [...]
Decision Time: An election day tour of Camden
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, [...]
CLL’s ‘too much disrespect’ speech: a timely intervention or a patronising lecture?
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 [...]
Beaten in Belsize, but Piers can still tell you: ‘How To Win A Local Election’
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 [...]