BRING some playing cards. Bring something. Anything to pass the time. It’s going to be a late one. The Press Association has circulated a list of when it expects the different constituencies to ‘declare’ results at next week’s General Election… Read More ›
Archive for April 2010
The YouTube War: Westminster North
…speaking of Karen Buck and leader’s wives. This little YouTube effort brings the two subjects together. But who did the filming and was their angle to accentuate the height difference between Sarah Brown and the Westminster North candidate? This inspirational… Read More ›
Step outside
MAYBE, just maybe there has been a bit too much talk about the leaders’ wives in this general election. Why should whether or not Sarah can gee up Gordon after he’s bad-mouthed a granny or Samantha can successfully dish out… Read More ›
Boris Johnson and the heckling historian
BORIS Johnson returned to the neighbourhood of his famous coffee house address of January 2010 this morning, urging West Hampstead to push Conservative candidate Chris Philp over the line in Hampstead and Kilburn next week. This time he stopped at… Read More ›
Blair in the marginals
FORMER Prime Minister Tony Blair was in Harrow today and promises to ‘help out in marginals’ during the final week of the election campaign. One simple question for this afternoon: Is Glenda Jackson going to let him on her marginal… Read More ›
Getting plastered
AS nerves begin to jangle in the final week of election campaigning, has Chris Philp entered the nail-biting stage as he wonders whether he has done enough to beat Lib Dem Ed Fordham and Labour’s Glenda Jackson (now 6/1 at… Read More ›
Tessa and the softies
IT would be great to know how Tessa Jowell phrased it when she told Guardian writer and blogger Dave Hill that Glenda Jackson’s rebelliousness still appealed to voters – and might just get her re-elected yet. “Well Dave,” Tessa might… Read More ›
Whittington: Victory For The People!
TODAY’S front page of the Camden New Journal is worth the wait, it will have a special place in the archives. It revealed first that Health Secretary Andy Burnham will scrap plans to close down the Whittington Hospital’s Accident and Emergency… Read More ›
Tactical Tories
A FEW Conservatives were a little annoyed at my cheeky suggestion last week that Tory voters in the south of the borough might be seduced by voting Lib Dem in a sort of tactical anti-Frank Dobson vote. The complainants fairly… Read More ›
Sigh. Oh God.
WHATEVER your politics, this exchange off the telly from last night will surely raise a smile? If only for the giant sigh by Jeremy Paxman halfway through and the most desperate of mumbles. You can just about make out the… Read More ›
