Philippa’s portrait
STREET artists have been told they are not allowed to operate in Leicester Square by Westminster Council while councillors and chief officers review how they want the place [READ ON]
May 2012
Jubilee in Kentish Town…. 1935 style
WHATEVER you think of this weekend’s celebrations for 60 years of an unelected head of state in the United Kingdom – yeee ha, for an unelected head of state – the [READ ON]
Let’s all do the windmill dance
THE Olympicsfication of London and specifically King’s Cross is set to continue with an ‘interactive songboard’ on the front of the station during the [READ ON]
The nutter
BIG question this afternoon: was the demonstrator who interrupted Tony Blair at the Leveson Inquiry a “nutter” or a “man”. The Evening Standard team [READ ON]
Network charges apply
LOTS of bus stops in north London have seen their dot-matrix information boards taken out of the shelters. Not sure why – I always thought they were helpful. They [READ ON]
Banished behind the red button
SPORTS low point of the weekend – and let’s get this post out before the non-Murray British players fall out of the French Open before lunchtime – was the [READ ON]
Dear Liz: We saw this and thought of you
THEY were walking down the Jubilee Line tracks earlier in the week after a breakdown near St John’s Wood. The line has a bit of a stinky reputation among some of its [READ ON]
Today there is just one flame
ARE we all enjoying the Olympic torch relay? A public service warning to all people who read newspapers or watch television news: It hits Tottenham High Road on July 25. [READ ON]
Dan Hodges wanted it switched off…
I HATE it when we only get half the story… but we may be doomed to wonder forever what the entertaining agitator Dan Hodges wanted ‘switched off’ in his [READ ON]
Camden New Journal letters page, May 1991
Richard Osley 