Latest Letters

  • Decent?
    Published: 25th March 2010 • COUNCILLOR Ralph Scott unashamedly crows about the government not coughing up the cash for decent homes. The sad fact is that as finance chief of the Lib Dem-Tory...
  • Scarlet standards
    Published: 25th March 2010 • HOW nauseating it was to read in the report on the funeral of Michael Foot (March 18), that Lord Kinnock led the singing of The Red Flag “though cowards flinch...
  • The Old Campaigner
    Published: 25th March 2010 • I was very sad not to be able to attend John Rety’s memorial, as I was in hospital. I’ve known him since he started Torriano Meeting House poetry nights...
  • Londoners could benefit from allotment dream
    Published: 25th March 2010 • REBECCA Hossack is attempting to do something good for all of London with the allotment scheme (‘Save our carrots’, March 18). Residents of all 33...
  • Paid for…
    Published: 25th March 2010 • I’M pleased the chair of the Labour Party in Hampstead and Kilburn has noticed election posters and literature from the Conservative party (Lording it over us...
  • Apollo OK
    • I WAS expecting a team of unskilled builders, rude site managers, incompetent project managers and insensitive resident liaison officers to descend on my flat over four weeks ago, but to...
  • Outstandingly good guide to Ofsted-speak
    • AS a new governor at Carlton School I would like to thank the New Journal for the article on our Ofsted inspection (Pupils’ care and guidance ‘outstanding’, March...
  • Love Camden, hate being told about it
    Published: 25th March 2010 • LIKE Mick Farrant (Letters, March 18), I was very disappointed and upset to find that the Love Camden booklet left out Gospel Oak and Queen’s Crescent. I...
  • Taking care
    Published: 25th March 2010 • FOR the past few years, we had a great caretaker who cleaned our block of flats. Every week he would be sweeping down the stairs from top to bottom, then mopping....
  • Let the litter louts pay
    Published: 19 March 2010 THERE has been discussion of whether to charge householders for the volume of the rubbish in their dustbins. Mine is stuffed with tabloid papers, McDonald’s debris and...
  • Thanks for safer streets
    Published: 19 March 2010 I THOUGHT readers would be interested to hear that Liz Wathen and Michelle Thompson, working for Islington Council in the road safety team, have recently won London’s...
  • Who will sign up?
    Published: 19 March 2010 • IN the run-up to what look to be close-run elections, Better Archway Forum is inviting all candidates to a political hustings on Wednesday, April 28, in Hargrave Hall...
  • Tick-box culture
    Published: 19 March 2010 THIS week, after three years as chair of Holland Walk Area Housing Panel, I tendered my resignation. I’d like to praise all the resident representatives who seek to...
  • Insight into Troubles
    Published: 19 March 2010 • I AM delighted to read that Martin Lynch’s Long Kesh Chronicles is on its way to London (Unlocking Maze secrets, March 12). However, I am a bit worried that it...
  • Tube threat to business
    Published: 19 March 2010 • THE Northern Line clearly needs upgrading but Tube Lines current proposals for 65 weekend closures and 16 months of early weeknight closures are an absolute fiasco...