How journalism works: The food chain
EVERYBODY in journalism, from top to bottom, understands that a quote or two might be lifted here and there as a story is hauled up the food chain. Nobody is naive to think [READ ON]
January 2011
Perfect match
How things stand at the mo in the Mayor’s Diary at Camden Council. Is there something we haven’t been [READ ON]
Little helpers
THE Labour group in Camden is still mulling over what to do about who gets to hang out in the mayor’s office next year. Deputy Mayor Abdul Quadir is likely to graduate [READ ON]
Who got the part of Theo?
GET this: Camden’s Liberal Democrats are more than ready for the upcoming budget-setting meeting at the Town Hall, a night where one of the most eye-watering [READ ON]
Bingo night
ON the one hand, councillors say the full council meeting is just a bit of ‘punch and judy’ knockabout. On the other, they say it is a great forum for the [READ ON]
Tamsin from Kilburn reads the Mail on Sunday over breakfast
REMEMBER last week David Miliband forgot all the flak he gets from the Mail and the Mail on Sunday to write a yawn about his love of football. This week, it’s another [READ ON]
The ‘lasting friendships’ made in libraries
BACK in the days of that never-ending Labour leadership campaign last year, councillor Tulip Siddiq was in the thick of the vote Ed Miliband campaign. With more mobile phones [READ ON]
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 [READ ON]
Age against the machine
In case you weren’t there and didn’t see it… film of Tuesday’s demonstration outside Camden Town Hall by elderly protesters bearing the brunt of [READ ON]
The expertise of Ed Balls
THE resignation of Alan Johnson as Labour’s shadow chancellor this afternoon has opened the door for Ed Balls to finally get the job he wanted. We all know he’s [READ ON]
Richard Osley 