When will it be ‘Dame Glenda’?
IT was a happy new year for that well respected man Ray Davies, the Highgate villager who discovered he will soon by kneeling for a tap at the Palace after being knighted. [READ ON]
Glenda Jackson
Unrepentant Glenda still stands by Thatcher tirade
ANYBODY who thought they might have seen the last of former Hampstead and Kilburn MP Glenda Jackson following her retirement from the House of Commons last year has been [READ ON]
I know it may come as a shock to you, I know, I know it may come as a shock to you
TULIP Siddiq may be heading towards a vote against airstrikes in Syria, but her predecessor’s son is less convinced. The columnist Dan Hodges, Glenda Jackson’s [READ ON]
Salmon caviar = leaflets for Zac
LOCAL Conservatives will be suited and booted next week when their Hampstead and Kilburn members meet for an annual autumn dinner at a hotel in Regent’s Park. Someone [READ ON]
Morning update 06.10.15: To Manchester
* Lord Adonis, the crossbencher Baron of Camden Town
* D-Dog in the 1980s * Jonny Bucknell sleeping in his car (again)
* Could Mike Greene have won Hampstead and Kilburn for the Tories?
* Ooooh Macarena, the protest song * The trouble with AirBNBs at conference [READ ON]
Tear up your ticket on being the next MP for Islington North
THERE was the briefest of a whisper that Jeremy Corbyn was actually ready to join Frank Dobson and Glenda Jackson in stepping down from Parliament just before the general [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]
The ‘no notes’ maiden speech: Orwell, Stopes…. and Bradley Wiggins
THE first maiden speech by someone representing Hampstead in more than 20 years was worthy reason to spend the day at the Commons last week. Here’s how Tulip [READ ON]
Quiet weeps: Ed Fordham on ‘being beaten’
THE latest slump for the Camden Liberal Democrats in last week’s election results suggests we may be waiting some time before a repeat of the drama which coated a [READ ON]
Is being interviewed by Andrew Neil meant to be this much fun?
BACK in the days when Tulip Siddiq was running for selection in Hampstead and Kilburn, it was often said by her critics that she was too lightweight for the task of following [READ ON]
Richard Osley 