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The right sort of people: or - Darlands, another act of insultation, in...
Two important council committee meetings this week: one last night, one on Thursday. Thursday will be the planning meeting that decides the fate of the historic Lodge in Victoria Park - starting...
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Heart and Soul: the Lodge plans rejected, in a victory for Victoria Park
Residents and campaigners, including Mary O'Connor and Roger Chapman, (wearing his lucky tie) packed out the committee room for the Lodge plans meetingThe story of the former park keeper's Lodge, in...
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Nothing to worry about: Audit, in the age of Capita, continued - or:...
'My other piece of advice, Copperfield,' said Mr. Micawber, 'you know.Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen andsix, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual...
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Labour Conference 2017: The beauty of our poetry, and the richness of our lives
Last year, the leaving of Liverpool was for me, I thought, the last Conference I would attend. The divisiveness within the party, and the sense of distance I felt from members who had not embraced the...
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An Enemy of the People: or - Barnet's Tory councillors finally lose the plot
Former Barnet Mayor Councillor David Longstaff, who accuses the Mayor of London of being 'An Enemy of the People'...Mrs Angry tries her best to avoid Full Council meetings of the London Borough of...
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Incidental and meanwhile uses: or - Barbarians at the gate - our library...
What remains of the former flagship children's library at Hendon: 'refurbished' by your Tory councillors ...Updated 29th November: see below*It becomes more and more difficult to write about the true...
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Frozen: A winter's tale, from Broken Barnet
Pic credit Angela BarrettUpdated 15th December: see below:When Mrs Angry was in...
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St George's Lodge: a seasonal tale, and a New Year's message from Broken Barnet
"But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself."Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common...
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The Ultimate Cost, or - North Finchley: the life and death of a library
The former children's library at North FinchleyNorth Finchley is one of a number of interesting but dangerous locations that punctuate the landscape of Broken Barnet - portals to another world: one...
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Kicking it into the Bushes,Unproductive Clutter, and a Question of Urgency:...
Unison members at the Town Hall, in Lo Vi jacketsAccording to the Book of Revelations (Broken Barnet version, rather than King James), the certain signs of an impending apocalypse is predicted not by...
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The Tail Wagging the Dog: or, a Tale of Two Meetings, in Broken Barnet
Residents supported by members of Barnet Housing Action Group and Unison outside Hendon Town HallTo have to attend one council meeting, on a beautiful summer's evening in June, might be thought to be...
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Beware of the Leopard: or - tales of planning and enforcement in Broken...
“But the plans were on display…”“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”“That’s the display department.”“With a flashlight.”“Ah, well, the lights had probably...
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The Ides of March, 2018: Barnet Tories lose control of the council
Backstabbing in Broken Barnet, a local Tory tradition, perfectly re-enacted this weekDue to 'events', dear boy, 'events', Broken Barnet - the blog, dear boy, the blog - has remained in something of a...
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On the scrapheap - Barnet Tories fall apart: Mrs Angry's (pre) pre-election...
So. Following on from the last post. Picture the scene, one night last week, at Hendon Town Hall.A meeting of the General Functions Committee: the last one before the ... sshh. Election. The local...
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On the Road Again - Mrs Angry's Highway Code, and why not to be Angry About...
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire: but how many in Broken Barnet? Who's counting, Mrs Angry? No one knows: certainly not Crapita. Pic credit © Mrs Angry's Pot Hole photo archive: a work in...
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End of Days: a Nasty Party, and the long, slow death of Easycouncil
The death of Easycouncil has been a long time coming. The death of Tory Barnet has been a long time coming. But here it is, now, before our eyes, even before the elections are over. And it all...
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When Jeremy came to Barnet: End Game, and Tory panic, as polling day approaches
A week in politics is a long time. A week in politics in Broken Barnet is a very, very long time.And Mrs Angry's week, in Broken Barnet, from Monday to Monday, has been, well: not just very, very long,...
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Election 2018: Barnet is still Broken
A hopeless dawn for Labour, at Allianz Park on Friday morningInteresting piece in the Irish Times this Sunday, by Fintan O'Toole, on England, and the cult of heroic failure. The Charge of the Light...
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A Radical Alteration: or - the ravished landscape of Broken Barnet, a Common...
The state of Broken Barnet, in one picture: the former National Institute for Medical Research, in Mill Hill, designed in the 1930s by Maxwell Ayrton, the architect of the original Wembley Stadium....
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A Potential Realignment, or: Easycouncil is No More
A deserted Barnet Conservative group room, Hendon Town Hall, watched over by Margaret ThatcherThe end, when it came, came creeping in, like a bad smell; a whiff of something like death, or decay.It...
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