HS2: Nash roars
NASH Ali let loose on Sir David Higgins, the HS2 boss, last week, channeling a bit of Oscar Wilde (price of everything, value of nothing) and Martin Luther King (judged on [READ ON]
March 2014
Maajid, the guy from the telly
IT’S difficult to let the week slip away without reviewing Maajid Nawaz’s appearance on Newsnight on Monday and a studio debate with Mehdi Hasan and Mo Ansar [READ ON]
The first tweets
TWITTER marked its eighth birthday last week by allowing everyone to see everyone else’s first ever tweets – so journalists took the day off from copy and pasting [READ ON]
A little catch-up
I’VE been away for a few days, so time for a little catch-up: * FIRST off, farewell Tony Benn, of which so many words have already been shared since his death on Friday [READ ON]
Bring it on Bloomsbury bitches
CAMDEN’S Labour Party finalised its local election slate last night by choosing Sabrina Francis to stand in Bloomsbury. The vacancy came up late after Councillor Milena [READ ON]
Scruffy teachers rule OK?
ACLAND Burghley Secondary School in Tufnell Park is going through the mill at the moment under the intense glare of Ofsted and an extra programme of monitoring. There appears [READ ON]
No.
IN my imagination, council leader Sarah Hayward wrote a lengthy reply to an official question fired at her about her Twitter use of it, then deleted it, then wrote another, [READ ON]
Shoefiti in Camden Town gets the boot
FANS of shoe-throwing art, look away now. The shoefiti display in Buck Street Camden Town, a row of trainers hanging from a wire in Buck Street (right) has disappeared. [READ ON]
Camden full council: live updates
22.01: The press bench shares the wall with the Camden Centre next door, where there sounds like a right ‘ol party going on. Music and cheering and some more cheering. [READ ON]
Tories to run without Mr Crepes
THE Tories are due to end the waiting and finally publish their full list of candidates for May’s council elections by the end of this coming week, but one name is set [READ ON]
Richard Osley 