Boris: Zadie Smith’s book was ‘unreadable’
THERE was a time when you could not get on a bus or a tube train without seeing someone reading Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, the writer’s award-winning debut novel. [READ ON]
November 2013
Boris Johnson admires the art in the Wet Fish Cafe
IF you’re looking for a place for a coffee – or indeed something more substantial – in West Hampstead, the Wet Fish Cafe in West End Lane isn’t a bad [READ ON]
The City Hall playground: Boris’s favourite foe
BORIS Johnson told Andrew Dismore to ‘get stuffed’ at a London Assembly meeting a couple of months back. He has also taken to simply calling him [READ ON]
CLL’s ‘too much disrespect’ speech: a timely intervention or a patronising lecture?
ONE leftover from last week is Conservative group leader Claire-Louise Leyland’s speech at full council in which she appealed for a new way of doing things at Town Hall [READ ON]
Footloose, Camden Town
IN Footloose (1984), the bumpkin town of Beaumont bans rock and roll music and dancing, until Kevin ‘let’s put this conga in reverse’ Bacon turns up and [READ ON]
The Greens do all their own stunts
THE Green Party must chase headlines and pull more stunts, be more ‘radical’. This was the assessment of one of its livelier local activists, Benali Hamdache, [READ ON]
Away in the mayor’s parlour…
HERE’S a backstage snap from the mayor and mayoress’s Christmas card photo shoot, and the story in New Journal that probably drew the most smiles at the Town Hall [READ ON]
Sunday file 24/11/13: Hobbits, unsolved mysteries and friends reunited
Posting here on Sunday nights, bits and pieces, tweets and links that didn’t make a full post during the week. * IF you are trapped in a tiresome argument with a [READ ON]
The news flow
LAST month, we learned from the Daily Telegraph’s website that an ability to spell is one of the ‘top 40 things the internet has killed off’. Specifically, [READ ON]
‘A basic, simple job’: salary £50k to £80k
‘IT was a slip of the tongue’, the West End Extra newspaper is told this week, just ‘a slip of the tongue’. It’s the explanation [READ ON]
Richard Osley 