Joan Bakewell on Peers & Piers

Joan Bakewell, Baroness Bakewell of Stockport, is at 82 still fully involved in socialist politics. A few years ago Harriet Harman asked her to help with the equalities bill by being ‘the voice of older people’. “It was an unofficial…

Categories: About Face

Lisa Hauck Hair & Makeup Christmas Auction

Lisa Hauck Hair and Makeup got the pre-Christmas auction and fund-raising season off to a great start. From her bijou salon on Gloucester Avenue, Lisa and her team launched and ran a successful fund-raising initiative generating over £1000 for the…

Categories: Charity, News

Hello: MP Keir Starmer

At eight o’clock on a Monday morning you may find our new Member of Parliament helping to run a football game at the local school in Kentish Town where his seven-year-old son is a pupil. “My job is keeping the…

Categories: Hello

Goodbye: Frank Dobson MP

Labour’s Frank Dobson steps down as MP after 35 years. Interviewed by David Lennon. Genial, warm, engaging; a wit and raconteur whose blunt, eloquent and passionate advocacy, especially on housing and the NHS, has served the voters of Camden for…

Categories: Politics

Picnic on Primrose Hill

Our On The Hill photography Lars wandered up Primrose Hill one Summer day to snap some great picnics.

Categories: Hello

About Face: Matthew Wright on Fishing

I’m not stupid. I know when I say I go fishing people think I’m some kind of dullard who gets his kicks spending an inordinate amount of time doing nothing on riverbanks in the expectation that something might happen. Non-fishers…

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