VICTORY is in sight for campaigners who have fought a decade-long bat- tle to get the world- famous The Black Cap pub and cabaret venue back open. Plans for a revamped LGBTQ+ bar, performance space ...

ONE summer’s afternoon in 2007, a class of unruly 15-year-olds cascaded into a battered classroom at William Ellis School, Highgate, to the news we were getting our third English teacher of the year.

HER words brought joy and solace to so many who knew her personally – and to many who didn’t. Her friendship was ever loyal, her time given generously. Poet, author, singer Jehane Markham, who has ...

MUSIC lives for ever, with a bit of help from those who make it; but the makers come and go. And so it was that, back in 2020, the very eminent Endellion String Quartet decided to put down their bows ...

THE Town Hall this week said sorry to a woman driven to her wits’ end by floods in her council flat in Camden Town. Lisa Gannon contacted the New Journal about the three years of hell in her property ...

The premise of Tom Stoppard’s 1982 play is simple – it’s about love and infidelity. Henry (James McArdle), a successful playwright, leaves his wife Charlotte (Susan Wokoma) to live with another ...

MARK Rosenblatt, better known as a director, makes his writing debut with this nuanced and layered play about Roald Dahl (John Lithgow), the beloved, irascible children’s author. Bearing an uncanny ...

IT was a safe place where up to 11 rough sleepers had once pitched their tents, choosing the site for the warmth and shelter provided by air vents. But over the past year University College London ...

WHEN Ursula Kuczynski “stepped along the eggshell walkway” of the Isokon flats in Lawn Road, Belsize Park, in 1934, “she was not the only pregnant spy in residence,” Maryam Diener writes in Parallel ...

TWO young meteors of the ruling Labour group at the Town Hall have been elevated to the council cabinet. New Camden leader Richard Olszewski was left with two holes to fill in his executive after his ...

• IN the past two issues of the CNJ there have been many columns and letters (Dan Carrier, Martin Sheppard, Hadley Freeman, John Stratton et al) about the parlous state of community engagement shaping ...

LOCAL photographers have the chance to win up to £100 as this year’s Clerkenwell Photog­raphy Competition welcomes entries. Both amateur and professional photog­raphers have been invited to submit ...