London Borough of Islington

got a tweet here just before the show started from Pat, who I believe is a cab driver.

Just picked up a punter from Parry Street in Vauxhall going to Graham Street in Islington.

No, that can't be true.

I don't think there is a Parry Street, is there?

I think I'm the last person generation that takes it seriously, probably on an emotional level.

I don't think it means much to my students, but I do get a kick out of it when I'm in Cape Town or Johannesburg or Hong Kong and I see Victoria this and Islington that.

It all feels like a sort of piece of home.

The way in which the Commonwealth was very much dead, though, was in Starmer's absolutely pathetic and prime minister starmer uh uk prime minister starmer's craven and pathetic answer to the question posed by a journalist i think a british journalist trump has threatened to invade america what you have to say about this And he said nothing.

His immense hard work and dedication led to Emirates Stadium being opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on time and on budget in 2006, and he was later invited with the squad to visit the Queen at Buckingham Palace to further honour the accomplishment.

Made an OBE for his services to football in 2000 and given the freedom of the Borough of Islington in 2014, the North Stand Bridge was renamed the Ken Fryer Bridge, complete with a statue depicting Ken as that young footballer outside Highbury.

Stepping down as an executive director in 2020 and appointed life president, Ken will never be forgotten by former players, staff members, the people of Islington, and above all, his family and close friends, who loved him for his humour, kindness and generosity.

In 1945, he would sneak down the tunnel to catch a glimpse of his heroes playing on the hallowed Highbury turf, a team still featuring Cliff Baston and George Mayle, great stars of Herbert Chapman's all-conquering Arsenal sides of the 1930s.

... yeah, I was playing golf in the morning, but, um, they're all meeting at 12 at, um- ...

Highbury in Islington, and I thought, "I won't get there 'til about 2:00", um- Play nine ... nah.

You're a member at the golf course.

No.

Margaret Hodge has spent half a century picking fights and winning a surprising number of them.

She ran Islington Council through the Thatcher years, was a minister under Blair and Brown and beat back the BNP in barking.

As chair of the Public Accounts Committee, she's made Google, Amazon and Starbucks squirm.

And she's also the Labour MP who told Jeremy Corbyn to his face exactly what she thought of him.

When it came to immigration, we never, ever talked about it.

So when I started in Barking, Barking was the borough where the change, the demographic change was so rapid.

When I first got there in 94, coming from Islington, inner London, I walked out of the station, it was completely white.

And I'd never met so many great-grandmothers who lived within 10 minutes of their great-grandchildren.

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Uh, all that is left to say is that today is a sad day as we, um, recognize the death of Mr. Ken Friar, an Arsenal Club legend who was born in Islington, who spent seven decades of his life supporting Arsenal, leading Arsenal, who was monumental in terms of all of our milestones.

He was club secretary, became managing director of the club.

Um, really pushed our move to Ashburton Grove, now known as the Emirates Stadium, of course.

I had my card stolen from a card machine, and the thief went on the world's lowest-rent spending spree with my card, which I, I'm still amused of today because I've got, I've got a screenshot of the bank statement.

The basic story is I put my card in a machine to get some money out at about 10 o'clock at night in, I wanna say Angel, Islington, North London somewhere, and I put the money in because I, I thought I might wanna pick up some food and takeaways take c- prefer cash a lot of the time.

And my card didn't come back out, and I couldn't get my card out, and the machine swallowed my card.

Now, I'm, me, I write about scams.