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 [...]
political betting
Facebores?
IT’S going to be a long summer and a long autumn for local Labour Party members if this is the kind of selection spam that will be filling their Facebook news feeds for [...]
Frank Dobson gets down with the selfies
A COUPLE of posts ago I was admiring exiting MP Frank Dobson’s decision, consciously or not, to avoid bumblebrag self-promotion on Twitter. So what if the world has [...]
Petsy goes to Kilburn High Road
THIS idea that people ok for dosh now go to Waitrose on one side of Camden High Street, and the rest of us shop at Lidl on the other side of the road, was smashed out of the [...]
‘My arms are tired’… but Lib Dem Linda’s still fighting
WATCH out Chris Knight wherever you are, your old rival Linda Chung clearly is not going to disappear in defeat. The Liberal Democrat may have lost her council seat in May, [...]
City Hall calls
THINGS could get a little restless on the Labour backbenches at the Town Hall, what with there being 40 councillors in the group now. The longer their service at Judd Street, [...]
Labour AGM: First names on the teamsheet
THE Labour AGM always has its winners and losers, however they decide to handle the edgy issue of choosing who should have a seat at Camden’s council cabinet. Maybe it [...]
Political betting: Tories now only 1/3 to hold Barnet Council
WAS there a sweaty panic in the Ladbrokes head office this week? Seven days ago, these pages talked of how – while the company offers no market on the Camden Council [...]
Political betting: Tories 1/5 to hold Barnet Council
THESE pages have warned you many times before about spending your dosh in gambling dens, but as a guide they still provide an interesting take on the elections we are about [...]
Double your money on Glenda
STAY in school kids, don’t gamble. Stay away from those numbers rackets… but if you think Glenda Jackson will still be in Parliament past May, here’s a [...]