I smell Damehood
CELEBRATIONS in the Moira Gibb house today after the outgoing Camden Council chief exec was promoted from a CBE to a full blown Damehood in the New Year honours. Of course, [READ ON]
December 2011
If only they had all just watched It’s A Wonderful Life
COULD the Islington Labour Party be about to dispense with hectoring election leaflets and get us to watch the schmaltz-pie that is It’s A Wonderful Life to properly [READ ON]
Front pages of the year
TIME for a pause for breath. There was no ‘Save The Whittington’ campaign in 2011, but the New Journal reporting team maintained our campaigning nature by [READ ON]
The wishlist
A LITTLE quote at the end of a recent news story in the Camden New Journal might have passed a few of us by – but it’s worth flagging up as perhaps the frankest [READ ON]
Moira’s last stand
WE can’t let the week close without another mention of council chief executive Moira Gibb’s leaving party at the German Gym in King’s Cross on Monday night. [READ ON]
Camden Ladies FC
COMPLAINTS are circulating around the members room at Camden Town Hall about why all of the charity football matches involving councillors seem to be the exclusive preserve [READ ON]
Merry Christmas Justine
THE opponents to HS2 don’t miss a trick. Here’s their Christmas card to followers – a video message in which a festive Robin redbreast competes with the noise [READ ON]
A unique bye-bye to the bendy buses
HE is one of a kind at the Town Hall. You never know what larks he is going to come up with next. Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell – star of the hit dance record [READ ON]
‘The Colonel’ heads to spadland
AT ‘Big Mo’s’ leaving do on Monday night, Camden Lib Dem deputy leader Matt Sanders questionned whether anybody at the council actually called Moira Gibb by [READ ON]
Bits and pieces
OK. Back again. Drowning in nativity plays, hamper appeals and Christmas stories last week meant no time for blogging. I was also down in Brighton helping to judge the EDF [READ ON]
Richard Osley 