Farewell to north London’s Ferodo bridges
YOU hear stories, don’t you?, of completely lovestruck married couples who live together for 50 years and then in old age, when one passes away the other goes soon [READ ON]
April 2013
Labour councillor: ‘Whittington protesters will destroy hospital’
ISLINGTON Council leader Catherine West, widely tipped to be the Labour parliamentary candidate in Hornsey and Wood Green when the time comes, was back in the trenches [READ ON]
Bob Dylan’s walk around Camden Town
I WAS alerted this week how this summer will mark 20 years since good old Bob Dylan went for a walkabout in Camden Town in a top hat as he filmed the video for the splendid [READ ON]
Luciana’s six minutes
THREE years or so after being named on Labour’s council election slate in Camden, Luciana Berger made it to Question Time last night. Of course, her very short-lived [READ ON]
Journalists united
THE Chicago Tribune sent pizza to the overtime reporters on the Boston Globe covering the US marathon bomb. A nice touch. (PS… it was a Globe staffer that released a [READ ON]
Lady in red
HAS the recent Glendamania peaked yet among socialist minds and Thatcher’s most unforgiving opponents? Not if the prices on eBay can be a yardstick for anything. [READ ON]
‘Please can I have a council flat in Covent Garden?’
QUESTION Time can turn Thursday nights into a bit of a witching hour for those interested in the politics. As Michael Howard, Caroline Flint, Sarah Teather and co argued over [READ ON]
Love Hackney. Love Croydon. Love Camden…. Love Barnet.
IS our collective well of imagination running desert dry? You might say you have seen so in the pages of the New Journal where the course of a ‘save the hospital’ [READ ON]
Snowshake
JUST in case you’re not one of the 40,000 people who have seen this online already, here’s Primrose Hill newscaster Jon Snow doing the Harlem Shake, the forgotten [READ ON]
Glenda ‘shouted at student newspaper journalist throughout interview’
GLENDA Jackson has been in hot demand for interviews after trashing Thatcherism at last week’s House of Commons tributes session for the Baroness. She’s been [READ ON]
Richard Osley 