A FEW hours before seeing this show I was involved in a somewhat disappointing end-of-year discussion with colleagues about our ‘highlights of 2024’. As the curtain fell on this rich and strange ...

OUR relationship with the natural world was at the heart of Evelyn Dunbar’s art. The sole woman to be employed as an official war artist during the Second World War turned her eye to the home front, ...

• HAVING endured the brickbats and panto-season newspeak of the full council meeting, I had hoped that serious non-political consideration would be given to the proposed changes to licensing in Camden ...

ARSENAL had a chance of winning the league title on the last day of last season. It’s hard to imagine that they will be in range when this campaign plays out after another toothless performance in ...

IT was lights, camera, action in Primrose Hill again this week as film crews descended on Regent’s Park Road and Chamberlain Street to shoot a new romcom movie. The cast hard at work included Emilia ...

THE judges of the Regional Press Awards – our industry’s ‘Oscars’ – have decided that two of the top five weekly reporters in the UK write for the Camden New Journal. It was revealed on Friday that ...

AN elderly man racked with arthritis and other serious health conditions was forced to live in a wooden shack because Camden Council failed to fix the lifts in his flats. A damning new report by the ...

NHS workers have warned patients are trapped in the “mother of all gridlocks” at the Royal Free Hospital’s A&E – with some facing 24-hour waits in trolleys in corridors before being admitted. Nurses ...

AS the House of Commons voted in favour of a bill to legalise assisted dying last week, we heard a slew of arguments by those who base their morality on the belief of a creator. For those who do not ...

FOR many years a full-sized stuffed bison stood guard in Chalk Farm Road – advertising the renowned Reject Pot Shop. The bison is sadly no longer there and the pot shop, which has been in place since ...

NOT everybody likes the harpsichord. Sir Thomas Beecham, the conductor famous for sharpness of tongue as well as smartness of beat, described its sound as like “skeletons copulating on a tin roof”.

IT is, according to tenants, an annual tradition. As soon as the cold weather sets in the communal boilers on Holly Lodge estate pack up, leaving people in freezing conditions for weeks at a time. And ...