Up on the roof
EARLIER in the year, I suggested a Labour party leaflet in Holborn and Covent Garden looked more like a movie poster. …and now, courtesy of Camden Council’s [READ ON]
November 2011
YOU CAN STILL GET MARRIED
YESTERDAY’S ‘tweet of the day’ came from Islington Council, full of exclamation mark delight in the fact striking staff would not foil anybody’s [READ ON]
Long live the locals
THANKS to Maxwell Hutchinson, former RIBA president and warden at a church in Exmouth Market, and Robert Elms for kind words about the New Journal and Islington Tribune and [READ ON]
Your celebrities are bigger than our celebrities
NOT that you’d know it from the report in the Evening Standard, but Sally Bercow’s speech was the shortest of all the speeches at Ken Livingstone’s Fare [READ ON]
In and out
COURTESY of the all-seeing eye [phone] of New Journal reporter Tom Foot (tomfoot1), can Camden Council just make up its mind over where it stands in the great apostrophe [READ ON]
One Fillet O’Fish please
A FEW people reacted to yesterday’s post about McDonald’s in Hampstead and the future of its posh black shopfront with an unimpressed: well, I saw one on a [READ ON]
…even the McDonald’s has a black shopfront
THE old cliche about Hampstead is that it is such a rarified, picturesque place that even the local McDonald’s has a chic black storefront. No garish red and yellow [READ ON]
Dear comrades
CAMDEN Labour Group councillors and a few others on a select email list have received another ‘Dear Comrades’ message this week – with three interesting little [READ ON]
West End Extra turned into a cartoon
BACK in September, the West End Extra – the New Journal‘s sister paper – had a curious exclusive on its front page: the bones of a Royal family obsessive had been [READ ON]
Boris gets a coffee machine, some M&Ms and a Sno Wovel
THE gifts and hospitality register for London Assembly members is due for discussion and sign off at City Hall tomorrow. It goes back in part to the days when Boris Johnson [READ ON]
Richard Osley 