You there eating the sandwich? I’m not sure about HS2
LABOUR mayoral hopeful David Lammy popped up at Euston this week to remind people that he has doubts about the £50 billion HS2 rail scheme. Full marks to his press team here [READ ON]
July 2015
Oh Lord’s
POOR ol’ Ed Miliband. With everybody and anybody still picking over the ashes of his general election catastrophe, he couldn’t even escape to the tranquility of [READ ON]
Tories all in for Barnet and Camden selection contest
THE fall of Brian Coleman in Barnet has opened up quite a contest among north London Conservatives as they search for a way to re-take his old London Assembly seat, [READ ON]
Hampstead and Kilburn nominates Yvette Cooper
THINGS got tight last night when Labour members in the Hampstead and Kilburn branch met to nominate a candidate in the party’s leadership contest. In the end, Yvette [READ ON]
We’ll need a new way to honour Paul Foot
AS journalism prizes go, the annual Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism has been one of the most coveted among those aspiring to the West Hampstead writer’s [READ ON]
74 days in: Red Tulip defies the whip on welfare bill
WELL, well, well… after just 74 days, Red Tulip has broken the Labour whip at the House of Commons already and done her own thing on the welfare bill. Abstention [READ ON]
TV archive: Julian’s long haul in housing
CABINET councillors will be bracing themselves for a demo outside the Town Hall later this week over the new housing allocations policy, which critics say is sweeping too [READ ON]
Hustings report: While Liz and Jeremy battle it out…
HOST: LABOUR PARTY VENUE: CAMDEN CENTRE WHATEVER happens in the Labour leadership contest, whoever wins, Jeremy Corbyn should collect all of the newspapers from the weekend [READ ON]
Looks like a geography teacher
SEE that Jeremy Corbyn. You know what he looks like? A Geography teacher. We know that because the Times told us this morning… And the Independent told us as [READ ON]
Off topic: Remember when bands had nice names like ‘The Beatles’
EVERY day I walk past the good folk at the Underworld nightclub in Camden Town, a loud venue well known beyond our borough boundaries, altering their front door letter [READ ON]
Richard Osley 