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Jack Cohen »
In The Court of The Red Tsar
Posted on 5:07pm Wednesday 14th July 2010
I see our local bloggers and the local press has already given their slant on last night’s council meeting. I have never seen any thing quite like it. The Conservatives plumbed new depths. It was not just that they voted their leader and cabinet members an obscene pay rise but their behavior through out was appalling.
Jack Cohen »
The Eruv and Mazeltovs All Round
Posted on 4:05pm Thursday 8th July 2010
Tuesday was “planning night “at the Town Hall. All three planning sub committees met. I learned something new. The three committees rotate between using the Council Chamber, Committee room one, and Committee Room three. Not all on one evening but each four weekly cycle. I do not know which panjandrum thought this one up.
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
I saw Twilight Eclipse and I will never make the same mistake again.
Posted on 8:43pm Monday 5th July 2010
Twilight Eclipse follows on from the two piles of junkyard storytelling that followed it like the script was based on the endearing thought process of an imaginative seven year old. Normally I would say: ‘I don’t want to spoil the film for anybody watching’ but if Twilight was a three course dinner it would be aptly compared to regurgitated houmas followed by a splodge of vomit.
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
The Perception Deception
Posted on 12:14am Tuesday 29th June 2010
‘Never judge a book by its cover.’ The famous quote when googled funnily enough shows an image of Susan Boyle. But how much of this famous English idiom do we implement in are daily lives? From the Hampstead dweller witnessing an ethnic person on a bus and approaching with slow steps of caution resulting in the thought process of ‘omygodwhatifhehasaknife’ which sounds like gibberish but is really a mumbled middle class prayer.
Dennis Signy »
Memories of a military man
Posted on 10:58am Monday 28th June 2010
Over the years I have regaled family and friends with the show stopping news that I learned to drive up the Khyber Pass during an undistinguished career in khaki as 14894617 Sergeant Signy Sahib. The only action I saw was in the Punjabi riots soon after the end of the war when an excitable young man stuck a knife in my right hand - the remnant of a scar is still visible.
Jack Cohen »
Tied up in Japanese Knotweed
Posted on 9:02pm Thursday 24th June 2010
Over the past two weeks there has been little to report from Council meetings. But in case it is thought that all a councilor does is attend meetings at the Town Hall I can assure readers there is plenty of what we call casework to get on with. My two ward colleagues Cllr Susette Palmer and Cllr Monroe Palmer and I have been inundated with issues from residents.
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
Prepare to fail and... end up winning
Posted on 11:06pm Monday 21st June 2010
The World Cup’s come to the stage were most of us have become desensitised to the sound of the buzzing vuvuzela like becoming desensitised to James Cordon’s podgy comedy outings post match. Or ITV’s over-excessive ad breaks fit to cause some sort of consumer esque epileptic fit. People have even become used to the England team's regular shortcomings.
Denise Phillips »
Vegetable Carving
Posted on 2:31pm Monday 21st June 2010
The secret to delicate carrot butterflies and swede flowers is to use a special pairing knife and enormous amount of patience!
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
Poetic Empowerment
Posted on 12:25am Thursday 17th June 2010
Summer, the moment the youth are liberated from the torrent of exams to earn a break. After the monotonous cycle of educational slavery for the whole year, students deserve their break.
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
Why do Barnet Council have to pop the balloon of World Cup hysteria?
Posted on 5:09pm Sunday 13th June 2010
World cup hysteria hits Barnet as most cars fly the St Georges flag proudly. Everywhere you look the World cup encourages so much football based advertising both on T.V, in shops, and restaurants. The advertising is so prominent that ITV even showed adverts rather then the England goal against the U.S. ITV cleverly showed an advert to further the suspense of the game.
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