Corbyn reviews ‘Comrade Corbyn’
AS soon as Jeremy Corbyn unexpectedly became Labour Party leader last year, the race was on among our big name political journalists to get a book out. There’s a [READ ON]
Daily Telegraph
Lovestruck at the Gay Hussar
PANIC is setting in among lefty loves at the sight of the Gay Hussar being put on the market. The Hungarian restaurant in Soho is a magnet for old Labour rascals and it would [READ ON]
Warmer words for HS2 from ‘spoiler’ Boris
NEXT stop Manchester for the Conservative Party conference and the Telegraph’s evening e-mail pols briefing gets in early with a warning that the unpredictable Boris [READ ON]
A little catch up…
AFTER a little long weekend break, here’s a catch-up on the blog: * UP in Cambridge, Labour councillors “took to Twitter to slam Jubilee celebrations”, as [READ ON]
Rom-com makers look here
IF you tell new Highgate councillor Sally Gimson (hear her at the election count) you are feeling blue and want to throw yourself off a building, she’ll call your bluff [READ ON]
How journalism works: The food chain
EVERYBODY in journalism, from top to bottom, understands that a quote or two might be lifted here and there as a story is hauled up the food chain. Nobody is naive to think [READ ON]
The Andy and Sal Show
GOSPEL Oak sketch-writer and Boris biographer Andrew Gimson writes in today’s Telegraph his predicament of supporting the Tories but watching his wife, Sally, fight [READ ON]
A familiar feeling
MUST be a tough life doing the diary pages on the nationals: Get in. Read local papers. Go home. Take last week”s Daily Telegraph which tells us that Sue MacGregor, the [READ ON]
Richard Osley 