We nearly spat out our cocoa last night when Paxman – out of nowhere – said, not unaccusingly, it might be added – that people see Ed Miliband “as a north London geek.”
As Kentishtowner was most definitely started by two north London geeks, we were naturally on the defensive, as were thousands of other north London geeker-tweeters.
http://twitter.com/M_Jones_82/status/581220038725763072
Bit unfair of Paxman to tell Miliband he's a "North London geek" but not tell Cameron he's a "glassy-eyed Chipping Norton knobshiner"
— Michael Hogan (@michaelhogan) March 26, 2015
So pissed off by Paxo's "North London geek" rudeness, I just donated to Labour. The geeks shall inherit No 10. https://t.co/qDACo0LznY
— Stella Duffy (@stellduffy) March 26, 2015
http://twitter.com/leenewton555/status/581388272796102656
http://twitter.com/Louiestowell/status/581377755595608066
And, unable to resist reclaiming the slight, we asked the artist behind our eye-catching logo, Russell Loughlan, to design a special ‘north London geek’ one (see main image).
Like it? Let us know below – hell, we might even cobble together a few t-shirts if there’s enough interest (as we have done over the years with our popular Ich Bin Kentishtowner ones).
In the meantime here are some other north London geeks (NLGs?) who are more than worth name-checking.