Latest Letters

  • Work you can trust
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • BELSIZE Residents Association has been running for several years a successful scheme which circulates to its members each spring a booklet listing some 20 types of...
  • Do you like a flutter?
    published: 17 JUNE, 2010 • I AM a research student at University College London. My research is on gambling and how people think, make decisions and reason about it. I am recruiting people to...
  • Oppose Boris Johnson’s policing cuts
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • ONE of my proudest moments as Mayor of London was helping to put a dedicated local Safer Neighbourhoods police team into every community in London. Today 630...
  • Hangover?
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • I AND my neighbours are appalled at the imminent felling of eight semi-mature established trees (mainly plane) in St Giles High Street. The proposal is also to...
  • Warning: Don’t get old or sick
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • WE now know from local and national sources that the NHS is going to experience major cut-backs, not least in so-called “low priority treatments”: scores...
  • Unfair to council staff
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • IT is a gross impertinence for demonstrators to hold up placards stating that disability discrimination and racism killed Jennyfer Spencer. Camden has one of the most...
  • Uncaring officials
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • JENNYFER Spencer’s voice was not heard at her inquest.  But, thanks to the New Journal, her letter highlighted the discrimination she suffered: “I...
  • Expectation
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • HAMPSTEAD expects every citizen to do their duty by opposing the closure of the Duke of Hamilton, a paraphrase of the speech spoken by Lord Nelson to the other...
  • Historical charm
    Published: 17 June, 2010 • IN the 1600s the main thoroughfare from London to the north was through Hampstead.  As such, by the 1700s many coaching stops and inns had sprung up along...
  • Meat is a life and death issue
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • CELEBRATING National Vegetarian Week, Clare Latimer offered recipes for meals without meat (Review, May 28).  Her warning that “calves have to be shot at...
  • Mascots not home-grown
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • WHAT irony that a Chinese design firm was allowed to create Britain’s Olympic mascots (Made-in-China animates MP – and Soho, May 28).  The Beijing...
  • Monolithic horror?
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • RENZO Piano quite calmly tells us that the building he demolished in order to build his new St Giles Circus development was “monolithic”’ and a...
  • Do architects rebrand the city for the young and fit?
    Published: 11 June, 2010 • I HAVE been looking for Renzo Piano “peering round a corner” of his new Central St Giles development, but so far to no avail (It’s a new Circus act!...
  • ‘Memorial will destroy green legacy’
    Published: 11 June, 2010 The planned Bomber Command memorial will cause great harm to Green Park, says Juliet Lyle  MANY thanks to those who, years ago, planted trees in our streets and designed...
  • No retread mayor here
    Published: 11 June, 2010  • HOW depressing to find former Labour minister David Lammy endorsing Ken Livingstone’s greedy eagerness to become a retread, third-time, Mayor of London,...