Toxic brands?
WHEN Labour lost its council seats in Gospel Oak in 2006, the leader of the Conservatives suggested that New Labour had in the wake of the Iraq War become, shall we say, a [...]
Piers Wauchope
Alastair Campbell, MP for Hampstead and Kilburn. Imagine that.
WAS there a sharp intake of breathe from Camden Labour Party members last week and a look of ‘does he mean us’ flashed at each other? I’m thinking of the [...]
Former Conservative leader: ‘Lethal Bizzle looked surly’
RAP star Lethal Bizzle was on the box tonight with his record Three Little Words, the official England tune for Euro 2012. GOAL! (See below) Mr Bizzle, you know?, should [...]
The unexpected return of Piers Wauchope
FORMER councillor Keith Sedgwick is the only reader to be bold enough to predict the outcome of tonight’s Camden Council leadership contest – you can read how he came [...]
Suits and ties
I HEAR former Camden Conservative leader Councillor Piers Wauchope snuck back into the Town Hall last night. The author of Camden: A Political History was giving a speech to [...]
..surely an election against Glenda would’ve been easier
GILLIAN McKeith’s live fainting on the telly last night drew the meannest of comments. Worst diver since David Ginola, that kind of thing. I know readers of these pages [...]
The 474-mobile
REMEMBER the oh-so-spooky coincidence between Labour MP Ben Whittaker’s defeat to Tory Gefforey Finsberg in Hampstead and Highgate in 1970 and Lib Dem Ed [...]
No fear Piers
I WAS just right there wondering whether Piers Wauchope would be at his typewriter in Tunbridge Wells, beavering away on some new chapters of his recent book Camden: A [...]
Paolo Wauchope
A COUPLE of people asked why I signed off a post about Camden’s former Conservative leader Piers Wauchope’s admiration for Sian Berry with the words: ‘Calm [...]
Friends reunited? They nervously checked for their names..
TO old Hampstead Town Hall for a jovial night in the company of Piers Wauchope, the former Conservative group leader in Camden who is causing a Rawnsleyesque stir with his [...]