Intriguing A.N.Wilson piece in tonight's London Evening Standard on the supposed row over whether Hampstead Heath starts charging (or enforcing charges) for use of the outdoor swimming ponds.
The Urban Swimmer has had a quick troll around the web, including on the Kenwood Ladies Pond Association website and can find no other information on the story...the Corporation of London has advertised charges at the Ponds in it publicity materials for years, so TUS is confused as to whether this is a breaking story or lazy journalism. Certainly it bares all the marks of the later. "Rural Paradise of the north London lefties" rather ignores the fact the Parliamentary seat of Hampstead and ahem...Kilburn, has a Labour majority of just 42 votes; and while the Highgate ward (East Heath) is represented by 3 Labour councilors in the Borough of Camden, Hampstead Town (West Heath) is represented by two Conservatives and a Liberal Democrat. Also is it just TUS, or has an entire paragraph been devoted gay cruising for er...no real reason other than to crack a joke that ceased being relevant in 1974. Oh well perhaps we will learn more in the future...
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