Latest Letters

  • Laboratory not suitable
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • THERE was some good news with your report (April 15) on the bringing in of new architects for the proposed UKCMRI medical laboratory behind the British Library, and...
  • Foundation is business!
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • IT would be hard not to agree with the sentiments expressed by Sanjay Shah (Health trust has callously dumped patients and staff, Letters, April 15).  Camden...
  • Facts about libraries
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • I WRITE to address a number of factual inaccuracies in your article (Librarian pay-offs stay secret – £120,000 redundancies, April 8) and ask that...
  • Doctor never suspended by trust
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • THERE are a number of inaccuracies in John Gulliver’s report (GOSH! That’s no way to treat a doctor, April 15). As we told the New Journal on April...
  • Why our navy counts
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • ON defence Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg made a glib claim that there are two admirals for every ship in the Royal Navy, hinting strongly at there being an...
  • Hospital campaign day of action
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • DEFEND the Whittington Hospital Coalition is upping the ante in our determination to overturn the unpopular NHS executive proposals to close our accident and...
  • Trouble with politics of pensions
    Published: 16 April, 2010 What explains the low level of state pension in the UK compared with the rest of Europe and what can be done about it? Pensions activist Hugh Lowe examines the problem...
  • Trouble with politics of pensions
    Published: 16 April, 2010 What explains the low level of state pension in the UK compared with the rest of Europe and what can be done about it? Pensions activist Hugh Lowe examines the problem...
  • Ewan votes with his feet
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • I NOTE that one of Britain’s leading actors has quit residence in Britain for Los Angeles, California. What was the reason? According to a recent...
  • ‘From basket case to better future, thanks to Lib Dems’
    Published: 16 April, 2010 Liberal Democrats are proud of their record and will do more to make Islington fairer, says Terry Stacy • Without a doubt, Islington will be one of the places to...
  • All Greek Orthodox Easter at day centre
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • TABLE-dancing, beer bottle-balancing and plenty of music enlivened the annual Greek Easter cele­bration at Alsen Day Centre, Finsbury Park, writes Raj Sandhu...
  • Wanted: an opposition
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • THE three potential parties of government (Conservative, Labour and Lib Dems) are agreed that deep cuts in government spending will be necessary to fill the...
  • Where was our MP?
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • LABOUR rammed through its draconian, illiberal and controversial Digital Economy Bill in the “wash-up” the other day. It had to rely on the Tories...
  • Tories out of polls race
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • I READ with some surprise the letter from a Conservative in Canonbury saying she had been talking to a woman on the Marquess estate who said the Lib Dems told...
  • All this work just to prevent cyclists having to dismount
    Published: 16 April, 2010 • RESIDENTS living near the Danbury Street entrance to the Regent’s Canal towpath are baffled by the works being carried out by British Waterways to the ramp...