The Public Gallery: Party games for riot victims, and the ambitious Mr Pelling
Riot From Wrong screening at Fairfield Halls attended by no Conservatives Last week, on the same night as the rather wind-ravaged party to celebrate the new bridge at East Croydon, young filmmakers...
View ArticleThe Public Gallery: Happy Blue Year?
What have the Conservatives got to look forward to this year? The Conservatives tried to end 2013 on a high. And why not? They had selected a highly electable candidate for a highly safe seat in...
View Article‘I know exactly how I’d attack me’: Croydon Central MP Gavin Barwell on...
Those who imagine the MP for Croydon Central living the Westminster high life would be disappointed by his entrance. He saunters into Matthew’s Yard, hands in pockets and clad in the most casual of...
View ArticleThe Public Gallery: Free speech, smears and non-debates
Ulterior motives a possibility in the ‘outrage’ over Bieneosa Ebite’s National Front interview On Sunday, during a four hour radio election special, Croydon Radio’s Bienesoa Ebite broadcasted a...
View ArticleThe Public Gallery: Boris and Lucas on the campaign trail ’14
Caroline Lucas MP raises Green spirits even further than usual Shouts to Andrew Pelling of ‘are you going to join the Greens next, Andrew?’ were the first thing I became aware of when I joined the...
View ArticleThe Public Gallery: Adjusting to power (and to opposition)
Labour claims a flying start on flytipping Labour’s back. In more ways than one – the new cabinet contains faces familiar to those who watched the last Labour council, which left office in 2006, in...
View ArticleHow suitable is Segas House for a new central Croydon primary school?
Discussion of the suitability of Segas House on Park Lane in central Croydon – directly opposite the Fairfield Halls – as a location for a primary school has highlighted the problem of the support all...
View ArticleThe Public Gallery: No Kippers for Barwell
Barwell considered second least likely UKIP defector Gavin Barwell is considered by the bookies to be the second least likely Conservative MP to defect to UKIP. The least likely? David Cameron. It’s a...
View Article#Datablog: How the general election was won and lost in Croydon
The recent general election reminds us that just because there’s a consensus doesn’t mean that the consensus is right. Most predictions were for a hung parliament. The polls fooled pretty much...
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