We’ve got some catching up to do
IT’S been a while and thank you to those who sarcastically asked whether I was ok after missing last week’s full council meeting; sometimes I wonder if that [READ ON]
Camden New Journal
Why we ran after Boris
SORRY to be vulgar, but I call bullshit. After Boris Johnson had cycled away from what was, if we are honest, an old-style newspaper ambush, his press officer told us that if [READ ON]
‘So I was at a party with Bing Crosby and Twiggy…’: Illtyd’s wicked words
AS our columnist Illtyd Harrington, the former deputy leader of the GLC and the architect of London’s freedom pass for the elderly, snapped at the hypocrisy and [READ ON]
Farewell Illtyd Harrington, our rascal storyteller
IT was such a curious initiation that you sometimes wondered whether Illtyd was in on it with the editor, a probationary challenge dreamed up to test concentration and [READ ON]
Myleene, the coconut crab… and how the Express came to take its own quotes from the Mail
THE story of Myleene Klass’s stowaway crab, her rat-eating giant crab last seen up a tree on Hampstead Heath, is a great example of journalism descending into a silly [READ ON]
Leafletwatch: Let’s crop it there
With Angela Pober's claims that Labour campaigned to save a library not in danger of closing, there is a certain amount of she says one thing, and the party says another: Not that you'd know it's up for debate from the latest Conservative bulletin in West Hampstead. [READ ON]
How slither killers are made
MY dear colleague, Tom Foot, what have you done this time? His story in Thursday’s New Journal about Aesculapian snakes living near Camden Lock has slithered its way [READ ON]
Deer Editor
THEY say today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s fish and chip paper… or in the case of a recent copy of the Camden New Journal, something a little more creative. [READ ON]
Insert HS2 protest message here
EVEN passing readers will have picked up on the fact that the Camden New Journal has a rather dim view of the destruction reserved for Camden by the government’s [READ ON]
Whatever next: Now HS2 planners say they need to take N-Dubz cafe…
THEY are talking about putting a plaque on the La Giaconda dining rooms in Tin Pan Alley, behind Centre Point. Although more of a place for fancy risotto than ham and chips [READ ON]
Richard Osley 