‘Working together’ on Camden’s HS2 offensive
THE HS2 opposition in Camden sounded quite the love-in this week, Labour and the Lib Dems working together, hand in hand to convince shadow transport minister Maria Eagle to [READ ON]
August 2013
Will Labour ‘win with women’ in H&K?
ONE week to go before the big Progress jam day at Camden Town Hall. The New Labour gang are having their ‘Winning With Women’ conference there with deputy leader [READ ON]
H&K: The expensive way to win an election
PERHAPS it’s no surprise that the three-way kitchen sink battle for the Hampstead and Kilburn parliamentary constituency at the last election – eventually won by [READ ON]
The WiFi war in Haringey
HARINGEY has hitched an idea from Camden and plans to provide free WiFi access from transmitters hidden in lamp-posts. The council has hooked up a deal with a [READ ON]
Arsenal to re-sign David Gest’s diamante man?
IT’S a tough time to be an Arsenal fan right now… if the most important thing to you is spending lots of money on new footballers. After trying to sign about 12 [READ ON]
Jet-set provost
HIGHER education’s favourite smoothie Frank Zappa lookalike, University College London’s outgoing provost Sir Malcolm Grant – the man who helped bring [READ ON]
Here comes Progress…
NEW Labour pressure group, Progress, are to take over Camden Town Hall at the start of next month for their ‘Winning With Women’ conference. Speakers include Harriet [READ ON]
Sarah H: Who says I want a seat?
COUNCIL leader Sarah Hayward’s ravenous Twitter feed – is she the heaviest Twitter user among London’s local authority leaders – continues to keep these pages [READ ON]
Post strikes
AS Tom Foot’s picture shows, some bozo managed to smash down a post box in Chalk Farm Road this week. We were reminded today that some of these pillars have survived [READ ON]
Is your local authority spying on its staff’s emails?
PUBLICLY-FUNDED institutions have proved themselves to be pretty open if you ask them: Have you been spying on your employees’ emails? The BBC fessed up straightaway [READ ON]
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