Islington
About Islington
Islington North is a constituency in Greater London established for the 1885 general election. It has been represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom by one member of Parliament (MP) since it was created, with Jeremy Corbyn serving as its MP since 1983. Corbyn, who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 until 2020, has been an independent since 2020. After having only ever stood as a candidate of the Labour Party, he was returned as an independent MP for Islington North at the 2024 general election.
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In 1864, there was the Evening Star of Islington. They announced there was going to be a grand exhibition of donkeys at the Agricultural Hall. So the next day everyone went to see the donkeys and of course they were the donkeys themselves.
from 562: No Such Thing As The Jam Of Entertainment, 2024-12-19 at 00:23:12 · read transcript
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If he's talking like Jacob Rees-Mogg, he's not going to work out well in Paris with the criminals, is he? That's true. That's true. I've got some ironic facts about 1984, because I love the core fact. Within 200 yards of the flat in Islington, where Orwell had the idea for 1984, there are now 32 CCTV cameras. That's very good. The most common book people lie about having read is Orwell's 1984. Why would they do that?
522: No Such Thing As Monet's Bog Cottons, 2024-03-14 · listen
If he's talking like Jacob Rees-Mogg, he's not going to like work out well in Paris with the criminals, isn't he? That's true. That's true. I've got some ironic facts about 1984 because I love the core fact. Within 200 yards of the flat in Islington where Orwell had the idea for 1984, there are now 32 CCTV cameras. That's very good. The most common book people lie about having read is Orwell's 1984. Yeah.
No Such Thing As Monet's Bog Cottons, 2024-03-14 · listen
I thought you said, I slightly misunderstood. I thought you said, at family picnics. You could only be arrested for reading it if you're reading at a family. picnic because it's very rude and he should be interacting. It's interesting you said about where he got the idea was in Islington. I think he's partly got the idea from his wife, Eileen, who'd already written and published a poem about 1984, 15 years earlier. Really?
No Such Thing As Monet's Bog Cottons, 2024-03-14 · listen
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