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For St Patrick's Day
Let's leave behind the foetid air of Broken Barnet and take a wander from Croagh Patrick, Mayo, and Mary Joyce, in Kilsallagh, to Innisfree, and a walk through the cool, green, mossy, lichen festooned...
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Goodbye to all that: Mrs Angry's Retirement
Yes: after the #daftarrest judgement, and as we wait this week for MPs to strangle the freedom of the press with statutory legislation, Mrs Angry has been thinking very carefully about the future of...
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An awful lot of narrative, and no analysis at all: One Barnet in the dock,...
Maria Nash, her solicitor Gerald Shamash, and residents from Barnet outside the High CourtSitting in court before the hearing began, Mrs Angry fell into conversation with the agency journalist sitting...
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Absent friends, or: the more informed end of the scale: Day Two of the One...
Maria Nash, pic GuardianIs it significant, do you think, that no Tory councillor has shown up to the One Barnet Judicial Review? No Cabinet member, no backbencher: no comment in the press, nothing on...
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Nothing about us, without us: Day Three of the One Barnet Judicial Review
The Barnet bloggers go to the High Court: Mr Mustard, Mr Reasonable, Citizen Barnet, Mrs Angry and Barnet EyeSo: Mrs Angry hurried through the cathedral like majesty of the High Court, across the...
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The Rites of Spring in Broken Barnet
Springtime in Broken Barnet is not marked by green shoots, and swollen buds on branches, and frogspawn in the pond. There are no rites of spring, no ceremony of beating the bounds.It is a problem: how...
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Artsdepot: this is not what community looks like
Trudging along in the blizzard, on the long march to North Finchley on Saturday, en route to Friern Barnet, and the People's Library, to mark the Barnet Spring, Mrs Angry observed a curious phenomenon....
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A Peculiar Evil: the silencing of opinion, in Broken Barnet
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than...
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You may not like the answers - and in future you may not ask the questions:...
Mrs Angry was late for last night's Constitution meeting, having been to another meeting elsewhere. As she hurried out of Hendon tube station, up to the Town Hall, she was surprised to see, in the cafe...
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Where the bodies are buried: Robert Rams and Church End library
Your name is Robert Rams. You are the Barnet Council Cabinet member responsible for libraries and museums. Or rather: responsible for some libraries, and no museums, because you shut Church Farmhouse...
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Broken Barnet: Under New Management ...
That was then: Broken Barnet under the malign influence of Mrs Angry, troublemakerWe at the Barnet Bugle have always been the lone voice of Conservative sanity in the lefty lunatic world of Barnet...
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Mrs Angry gets Hacked Off: a creative collaboration
Mrs Angry, taking a bullet for Rupert Murdoch ...Mrs Angry is of course a seriously minded, highly focused citizen journalist, and one who is not given to indulgence in satire, caricature, ribaldry, or...
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The demolition of the White Bear: local history in the hands of our Tory...
The White Bear, in happier timesOnce upon a time in Broken Barnet, when we had a history to be proud of, and not one to be valued, boxed up and sent off to auction, our council had a Heritage Officer,...
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Margaret Thatcher: the view from Broken Barnet
As we have observed many times, here in Broken Barnet, there is a certain inexplicable synchronicity that underlies the sequence of events, the peculiar chronology, the hidden history, and the unseen...
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A Tale of Two Question Times: Part One, a long way from Rochdale
BBC Question Time pic Clare Hegarty/FCHSMrs Angry received an interesting text from Miss Angry, on Tuesday. Guess what, she wrote: Question Time is coming to school ... Mrs Angry was taken aback. Not...
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A Tale of Two Question Times: Part Two - Our Choice, not Your Choice
Tirza Waisel, Helen Davies, and Tory Cllr and Cabinet Member Sachin Rajput (empty chair)As the BBC held its Question Time at a local school, an edition dedicated to the legacy of Margaret Thatcher, and...
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You love Barnet: did you know? Barnet's Tory Town Hall Pravda - paid for by...
A lovely surprise fell through Mrs Angry's letter box this morning: oh look, she cried: a copy of Barnet First! This is a rare treat: the council's propaganda machine churns this crap out, at vast...
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The last goodbye: Barnet Tories' farewell to Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher: a nation mourns: but not Mr ShepherdMrs Angry had intended to wear her red dress to the full council meeting last night, as a gesture of eccentric socialism and general disrespect to...
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Precious Darlings: Brian Coleman - suffer the little children
Not long to go now, until erstwhile Barnet Tory councillor Brian Coleman is up before the beak, at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court, to answer charges, which he denies, relating to the alleged assault of a...
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Mrs Angry's job application
A new job opportunity in Broken BarnetMrs Angry has some very exciting news.As readers will know, over the last three years or so she has been very busy running Barnet Council on a long term interim...
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