The brand new improvements at Gordon Square are spectacular. Nice work @CamdenCouncil!

Camden Town, London, England - 1920

Graffiti Man Captured In Broad Daylight In Camden Town Spraying Paint On St. Michael's Church Wall.

Belsize Library, Camden 1937 Hugh Gold and Rowland de Winton Aldridge bit.ly/46S9aGg

Camden High Street, London, England - 1950s

Hi Camden residents. Would you like to be paid and trained up to become a Camden Resilience Ranger? It’s really interesting and important work …pls share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Camden Square, Camden Town 1985 Peter Bell and Partners buff.ly/Ql1ZB4p

Birthday breakfast at Lumi in Camden. Frenchie lotus and a cappuccino

Mick Jones. The Clash “Sniffin’ G!ue” photo session in Camden Town (1977). 📷

There are so many exciting shows coming up for us Gene boys 🎸 From our intimate ‘Everywhere At Once' shows for @musicvenuetrust to our Roundhouse Camden shows to our North America Tour and more! Who'd have thunk it? 🙌🎹 Ticket liks to all shows in bio. #geneband #90sIndie

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A POLICE OFFICER SECRETLY EMAILED A LANDLORD TO GET A DISABLED TENANT EVICTED. CAMDEN COUNCIL HID EMAILS FROM THE OMBUDSMAN. THIS IS WHAT AN INSIDE JOB LOOKS LIKE. Someone messaged me on X a few weeks ago. His name is Ray Hanson @tenant49273533. He has disabilities. He sent me a pile of official documents and asked me to look at them. I did. Ray was living in a garden shed in Camden, North London. Not a converted one. Not a nice one. An illegal one. With rats. No heating. No hot water. Wires hanging out of a window. A toilet not fixed to the wall. A shower that did not work. And Camden Council knew about it since 2006. A formal Enforcement Notice was issued against the property that year. The notice said a building had been constructed in the back garden without planning permission and people were living in it. Illegal. Written down. Filed. Then Camden did what Camden apparently does best. Nothing. Fourteen years passed. Ray ended up living there. In July 2020 Camden's own Environmental Health Officer finally visited and condemned the place on the spot. No fixed heating. A broken skylight. Rat holes in the front garden. A shower that did not work. A toilet hanging off the wall. A sink falling away from the wall. Dangerous electrics with wires going out through an open window. A kitchen so bad it was declared unsafe. Camden's own document describes Ray as an extremely vulnerable tenant facing a very real risk of serious harm over winter. They banned the property from being used as a home. That was July 2020. Now remember that date. Because housing benefit records show £22,880 being paid directly to Ray's landlord in October 2021. Fifteen months after Camden condemned the property. With a weekly payment of £260 still running. Public money. Your taxes. Flowing to a landlord for accommodation that Camden's own officers had declared unfit and illegal. Nobody stopped it. Nobody joined the dots. Or maybe they just did not want to. Then it gets worse. In January 2021 a Metropolitan Police officer sent an email directly to Ray's landlord. Not to Ray. To the landlord. The email is on official Metropolitan Police headed paper with a verified collar number, station address, and direct phone numbers. He asked the landlord what his plans were for moving Ray out. He said that once Ray was gone all the problems would be solved. He told the landlord he had a vested interest in making that happen. He then referenced police powers to issue Community Protection Notices in the same email. A serving police officer emailing a private landlord asking when he planned to evict a disabled tenant living in a property that had already been condemned. When Ray complained about this email a Met officer accused him of fabricating it and threatened him with a criminal review. The email is on official police headed paper with a verified collar number. So who fabricated what exactly. While all this was happening Ray complained to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, official case reference 20 003 347. During that investigation an internal Camden Council email surfaced. A senior manager wrote to colleagues including the officer who signed the Prohibition Order and asked whether there were any past emails they would not want uploaded to the Ombudsman because of the sensitivity of relationship building. A council manager asking his team which emails to hide from the official investigation. In writing. On a council email system. Ray took his case to court. The judge confirmed everything. The property was an illegal construction, unfit for human habitation, with rats, no heating, no hot water and dangerous electrics. Ray Hanson was awarded £58,567.80 in damages. He won. Then Camden Council went back to court and got him labelled a serial litigant. Because Ray had brought multiple claims about what happened to him, Camden's lawyers argued he was abusing the system. In November 2024 a General Civil Restraint Order was placed on him meaning he needed a judge's permission before making any further legal applications. So when the possession hearing came in May 2025 Ray could not defend himself. His application was dismissed before it was even heard. The court granted possession to the landlord and said Ray owed £27,320 in rent arrears. Just pause on those two numbers. Ray won £58,567.80 in damages from his landlord. Then a court said he owed that same landlord £27,320. Same man. Same landlord. Same condemned illegal shed. On 11 August 2025 police arrived at the property with taser guns and removed Ray Hanson by force. He was arrested and charged on the same day. He has been street homeless ever since. He is still homeless now. Still dealing with this. Still not resolved. A disabled man. Housed in an illegal shed that Camden flagged in 2006. Condemned by their own officer in 2020. Public money paid to the landlord for over a year after that. A police officer working with the landlord behind his back. Council staff asking which emails to hide from investigators. A court victory worth nearly sixty thousand pounds that changed nothing. A legal order used to silence him. Armed police. Arrest. The street. Camden called him the problem. And if you think this is an isolated case, last week @SkyNews reported that Camden Council is now facing legal action from families whose children were abused at a West Hampstead nursery for seven years while Camden looked the other way. Different victims. Same council. Same pattern. Issue a notice. Start a review. Avoid accountability. Move on. Ray Hanson is real. He is sleeping rough while Camden Council sits in its Town Hall on Judd Street. The documents are real. The court judgment is real. The Prohibition Order is real. The police email is real. The housing benefit payments are real. @Victoria_Rixon @MLorrM @johnmcdonnellMP @premnsikka @stevemiddi1 @nw_nicholas

RT @CamdenCouncil: Today marks nine years since the Grenfell Tower tragedy, through which 72 people died. This weekend we are lighting up o…

’Early Morning, Muswell Hill’ (2017) by Nessie Ramm

Laughter is anti-inflammatory. Crying is regulating. Hugging is immunoprotective. Singing is vagal toning. Dancing is neurogenic. Joy is a biological necessity.

Author Julia Donaldson issues makes a plea for “more libraries and more librarians in our communities and schools” as she is made a dame. #BookTwitter #booklovers buff.ly/p20yIyu

She was 57 years old. White hair. No carefully managed image. No media training designed to make her more palatable. Just thirty years of accumulated knowledge and the calm, unhurried authority of a woman who had spent her life mastering her subject. She sat on a BBC panel, answered questions about immigration and politics, cited evidence, made arguments — and then went home. The next morning, her inbox looked like a crime scene. Her name is Mary Beard — Cambridge professor, classicist, one of the most respected scholars of ancient Rome and Western civilisation alive. And the internet had decided that a woman speaking with quiet authority on television needed to be punished for it. The messages were not criticism. They were not debate. They were rape threats. Death threats. Coordinated campaigns of personal destruction targeting her appearance, her age, her voice — anything that could be used to remind her that spaces like the one she had just occupied were not meant for her. Most people would have gone quiet. Mary Beard went further in. She did what scholars do when they find a pattern that disturbs them: she followed it backward. Through decades. Through centuries. Through millennia. All the way back to some of the oldest texts in Western civilisation. And she found it had always been there. In Homer's Odyssey — one of the foundational works of Western literature, nearly three thousand years old — there is a scene that most readers pass over without registering its quiet violence. Penelope comes downstairs and asks the poet to sing a different song. Her own son, Telemachus, cuts her off. He orders her back to her room and tells her plainly: speech is the business of men. She goes. Mary Beard read that scene and recognized it immediately. Not as ancient history. As a pattern. In ancient Rome, women who dared to speak in public were not described as orators or thinkers. They were described as noise — disorderly sound, something that did not deserve to be called language or argument. Their voices were not speech. Their thoughts were not thoughts. In the medieval world, women who claimed public authority were labeled as witches. Elizabeth I — Queen of England, ruler of a nation — had to rhetorically reshape herself into something masculine just to be taken seriously as the leader of her own country. The silencing of women who speak with authority was not invented by social media. It was not a modern pathology or a cultural accident. It was built deliberately, over centuries, into the very foundations of how Western civilisation defined who gets to speak, what authority sounds like, and who is allowed to take up space in public life. Mary Beard had found something important. In 2017, she published Women & Power: A Manifesto — short enough to read in an afternoon, substantial enough to reframe everything you thought you understood about why this keeps happening. Her argument was precise and devastating. The problem is not that women lack the ability to lead. The problem is that the model of leadership itself — the template for what public authority looks, sounds, and feels like — was built by men over centuries and has never been redesigned. When a woman enters public life and doesn't fit that template, she is not failing. The template was never built for her. It was built specifically to exclude her, and it has been doing exactly that, efficiently and continuously, for three thousand years. The solution, Beard argued, is not to teach women to perform power the way men have always performed it. The solution is to dismantle and rebuild the very concept of what power is allowed to look like. She kept teaching. She kept writing. She kept appearing on television — white-haired, unhurried, carrying her decades of authority without performing it, without packaging it for comfort, without apologizing for it. The threats continued. But other messages began arriving too. Letters from women and girls who had spent their entire lives feeling that every door was slightly too narrow, every table slightly too high, every room slightly reluctant to make space for them. Women who had spent years wondering what was wrong with them — why they couldn't quite fit, couldn't quite belong, couldn't quite be taken seriously no matter how much they knew or how hard they worked. They read the book and understood, perhaps for the first time, that nothing had ever been wrong with them. The room had been designed without them in mind. That is not a personal failing. That is a three-thousand-year-old architectural decision. And one Cambridge professor with white hair and a calm voice — who refused to go quiet when the internet told her to — spent her career documenting it, naming it, and handing that knowledge to everyone who needed to hear it. Telemachus told Penelope that speech was the business of men. He was wrong then. He is still wrong now. And Mary Beard has three thousand years of evidence to prove it. via The Inspireist #FeministFriday #HERstory

Albany Street, NW1, 1954. The Cape of Good Hope was on the corner of William Road.

A few moments from our @oliviarodrigo pop-up. Who's been to visit so far? 👀 We're also back on Sunday for the final day - don't miss out ✨ 📍 UMusic Shop Camden Unit 832–835, The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AH SUNDAY, JUNE 14: 12 PM - 6 PM

This week we have been exploring the modernist mews house, which came to the fore in London in the early 60s as the first postwar generation of architects sought to build their own homes. Here we present 3 examples you may come across wandering around NW1 buff.ly/3NIEw9a