Richard Osley

1 week ago | newjournal.substack.com | Richard Osley

Happy Bank Holiday Monday and welcome to the first digest post from NewJournal+. The digest will go out to all subscribers, free and unpaid, every Monday and it’s a chance to catch up on what you might have missed and see what’s coming up. If you didn’t see our first NewJournal+ feature post last week, you can still check out our interview with Eric Reynolds, the inventor of Camden Market reflecting on how it all began and what it grew into.

1 week ago | newjournal.substack.com | Richard Osley |Isabel Loubser

This is the first edition of our new weekly politics column from Richard Osley and Isabel Loubser, and as it’s the first it’s open to all subscribers, free or paid. To limit dominating your email inboxes with NewJournal+ mail, it will initially be available on the site here to read and under the Bubble tab on the menu bar. Thank you to everybody who has signed up to NewJournal+ so far.

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Richard Osley

AT the end of Arsenal’s first leg defeat to Paris St-Germain this week, Peter the red-nosed pundit was asked what the Gunners needed to do in the return leg in France. “I think everybody needs to play just a little bit better,” Schmeichel replied – and that’s why they pay him the big bucks, folks, and conversely I’ve been stuck here giving you this lovely column for the past 15 years. What do I know that the former Manchester City goalkeeper doesn’t?

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Richard Osley

The New Journal’s modest offices at 40 Camden RoadHI there, we’re off! Now that seems an appropriate way to start, as it was the headline on the very first issue of the Camden New Journal back in 1982. Here we go again on another adventure with the launch of a new subscription newsletter service. Many readers will know how our paper was born out of a strike action which had lasted for more than a year – the “old” Camden Journal having been shut down by its private company owners.

2 weeks ago | camdennewjournal.co.uk | Richard Osley

Online images like this poke fun at AngeTHERE was a sweet moment last week when, like a child on Capri Sun, Ange Postecoglou finally got to do the press conference he’s been desperate to do. Spurs had slipped into the semi-finals of Europe’s b-rate competition – a ropey Rumbelows tournament summed up by the fact they will play the mighty Bodo/Glimt in the last four. And, mate, he was going to enjoy it. “The players have never lost belief.