WHO said chivalry is dead? Peeps is happy to find it alive and well in Hampstead and Kilburn. Look in the New Journal’s letters pages and you'll find Chris Percy “incredulous” about some of the comments made by Conservative council election candidate Edward De Mesquita in last week. There he notes how few female Tory MPs have come through under David Cameron. Ever so bashfully, he makes no mention of the fact that his wife is Labour’s parliamentary runner Tulip Siddiq. 

 

WELCOME back Sian Berry to Camden as the Greens try to go forth in Highgate in May’s elections. She helped the party win three seats there back in 2006. In doing so, her long blonde hair was treated by some hacks as something wholly exotic. Former Conservative leader Piers Wauchope’s choice of descriptions in his book on Camden’s political history did not scrape much further than “highly photogenic”. And then there was the profile in the Independent On Sunday, which described her as “pure environmental viagra”. “Hashtag everydaysexism” perhaps, in today’s online parlance.

 

PEEPS has advised scientists before to examine the properties of Labour councillor Mike Katz’s rhino-thick skin. De-selected in Kilburn ahead of the elections, he was shut out of the parliamentary selection contest there and then missed out on Brent Central. On Tuesday, he was passed over again by his own party as it filled the vacant local election slate slot in Regent’s Park. Local campaigner Nadia Shah got the nod.

 

PM David Cameron was pleased with himself after his joke-a-thon speech among the self-important lobby scribes gathered at the Westminster Correspondents’ Dinner last week. “On canvassing with Boris Johnson in a south Hampstead suburb and this very attractive, relatively middle-aged woman came to door and said: ‘Boris, good to see you. You are father of one of my children.’ And the white hair stood up on end…” He rambled on some more to a punchline about the “relatively middle-aged woman” – whatever that means – being Boris’s kid’s maths teacher. Ba-doom-tish.