Latest Letters

  • Anthology ‘review’ reveals thinly veiled snobberies
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • JOHN Horder’s traducing of Emergency Verse – Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State (Review, January 20) is littered with uncorroborated presumptions...
  • Such waste
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • CAMDEN tried to save £1million a year by sharing a chief executive with Islington but have now given up. That would have kept Great Croft running. And the...
  • Council tax
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • I WATCHED the webcast of the full council meeting because there was an item on the budget and wanted to see what reception it would get.  I was not to be...
  • Meeting needs of the vulnerable
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • FURTHER to your article (Age against the machine, January 20) I would like to offer some reassurance to readers.  Anyone who currently attends the four...
  • Back the school campaign
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • AS mother of two  primary schoolboys in the south of the borough, I congratulate the “Where is my School” campaigners for enlisting the Institute...
  • Foxes should not be vilified
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • I AM surprised that the residents of Dartmouth Park are so lacking in understanding of wild animals that they still demonise those trying to survive.  I am...
  • Basement social values
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • IS a planning inspector licensed to permit an offence?   Anyone found deliberately damaging another’s property would be apprehended. Yet permission has...
  • Why is no cafe allowed?
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • THERE was much sadness when we lost Cafe Euro-Med in Kentish Town Road. For our family, friends and neighbours, it was the site of many happy occasions, including...
  • Thanks to my Good Samaritans
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • ON the evening of December 18 (which readers may remember as the day of the blizzard) I slipped in the snow on my way home from a carol concert in Rosslyn Hill and...
  • Passing the buck on the cuts
    Published: 27 January, 2011 • A REFRESHING breed of councillors indeed!  I am writing to congratulate our Labour back bench councillors Thomas Gardiner, and Meric Apak for not allowing...
  • Parents, take greater responsibility for your children
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • ALONG with the police and Karen Buck MP, we also deplore the recent spate of attacks in North Westminster and are working closely with the relevant authorities and...
  • In the cause of freedom
    Published: 20 January,2011 • I ACKNOWLEDGE the point about the Royal Air Force having its place at St Clement Danes but the latter is essentially a religious edifice/memorial (RAF already has a...
  • A clash of evidence?
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THE Review piece by Tom Foot about James Hanratty, who was hanged for murder in 1962, (Hanratty – the campaign to clear his name continues, January 14) talks...
  • Save it
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • OWNERS University College London Hospital claim a “majority” support their plans” to destroy the Cleveland Street former workhouse adjacent to...
  • Ripped off by Oyster?
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • OYSTER card users travelling on the tube and train were overcharged by a £60million last year. It is not good enough for the Mayor of London, Transport for...