Uncle Rob, the Tory
THE Conservatives choose their Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary candidate at an ‘open primary’ vote tonight. With the personal pledges flying about in his [READ ON]
January 2013
You CAN film in the Town Hall
IMPORTANT news for journalists (and I guess everybody else too with a cameraphone): You CAN film in the Town Hall whenever you like, as long as it is in the public areas of [READ ON]
Investing in ‘unemployable sociology students’
WHEN it comes to some shock-jocky controversy over at the London School for Economics in Holborn, Jason Wong is good value. He was in the New Journal last year after posting [READ ON]
Glenda Jackson to make it official: ‘I’m not standing again’
GLENDA Jackson is due at Labour GC tonight for a speech full of thanks but ultimately confirming the biggest non-secret in north London politics: she’s won’t [READ ON]
Council horseplay
SOME might gently suggest it’s all ammo for the Tax-Payers Alliance sorts who believe all public spending holes could be fixed if only local authorities and governments [READ ON]
Death penalty Brits: Remember Akmal?
THEY say it could take years for the legal appeals from Lindsay Sandiford, the Briton caught with bag loads of cocaine in Bali and sentenced to the death penalty this week, [READ ON]
Question 20
AN exchange in the written questions and answers between Camden’s top Tory and the Labour leader of the council seem a teensy bit cryptic. It certainly had an odd [READ ON]
The man behind the Nipperie
WITH news of the sad demise of HMV last week, a cartoon by @greedy_fish did the rounds online of the record shop’s famous dog being put down by a vet. Not many [READ ON]
Not now
ANDREW Marshall, dismissed as mischievous by some of his Conservative colleagues for pushing the three people who want to be the parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and [READ ON]
‘Do you like the lining?’
CAMDEN’S environment chief Councillor Phil Jones was looking sharp at last night’s full council meeting in a suit, he explained to us all, made of recycled [READ ON]
Richard Osley 