Elizabeth Truss goes walking on Hampstead Heath
GOVERNMENT ministers (and their shadow counterparts) have been turning up in and around Camden in their droves in recent weeks. It is almost too fatiguing for me to [READ ON]
February 2015
Awale, Awale, and Awale again
LABOUR was proud of returning a record haul of councillors in last year’s local elections, but what are its cast of thousands up to? Ahead of Monday’s full [READ ON]
H&K: Jackson vs Cameron at Prime Minister’s Questions
LABOUR’S Glenda Jackson is not going to go quietly. Yesterday, she was up and down in her Commons seat like a jumping jack until she was called at Prime [READ ON]
Laura: the wait goes on
THE general election campaigning may be well under way but there are, it seems, still a few last minute tickets to the big House going. It’s not for me to spread the [READ ON]
Let’s put Piers in the firing line
NOT so long ago, the BBC was presenting Piers Wauchope as a posh passer-by, vox-popping him for his political views without explaining the fact that he is a UKIP [READ ON]
The sound of silences: Natalie Bennett’s radio interview to forget
IT'S been a funny start to the week for Green Party leader (and Holborn and St Pancras candidate). One moment, she's hanging with the cool kids, Sadie Frost and Paloma Faith, at Vivienne Westwood's show for London Fashion Week. The next, she finds herself in perhaps her worst ever interview on LBC with Nick Ferrari. [READ ON]
Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister?
WE learn today that according to Sir Keir Starmer it is ‘not helpful’ to ask him questions like ‘do you want to be Prime Minister?’ Labour’s [READ ON]
Benidorm calls
AS planners debated the Royal Free’s designs for a new medical research centre in Hampstead last night, ward councillor Stephen Stark was a little unsure about the [READ ON]
Throwback Thursday: 21 pictures from Hampstead and Kilburn 2010
EVERY Thursday on the Instagram social network, users post pictures from the past, under the hashtag #TBT or #ThrowBackThursday. So, with the general election drawing [READ ON]
Great expectations on Miss Faversham
CONSERVATIVE Laura Trott – who spent four years up until 2014 sitting quietly on Camden Council in the safe-as-houses Tory ward of Frognal – is not giving up on [READ ON]
Richard Osley 