Latest Letters

  • Published: 2 December, 2010 • WOULDN’T life be easier on the ears without the constant background wail of sirens?   I know our emergency services need a vehicle and pedestrian warning...
  • Published: 2 December, 2010 • WHEN I heard a couple of days ago about it I thought it was joke – I could not believe that Camden Council are considering closure of the Fairfield play...
  • Published: 2 December, 2010 • IT is not only Ed Miliband who is looking at a “blank sheet” to meet the rush of legislation from the Coalition. It would not be too much of a...
  • • THE New Journal (November 25) gave a very informative account of Camden’s proposed cuts in spending.  Hopefully it will help residents engage in the short consultation, leading up...
  • Published: 2 December, 2010 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON Peter and his friends  IT was, in the last analysis, neither voyeurism nor significant. Mandelson: The Real PM?, screened on BBC4 last...
  • Published: 2 December, 2010 by SOFIE BUCKLAND It’s not all hard work in the student occupation, but fighting cuts is a work in progress THE defining image of the student occupation at...
  • Published: 2 December, 2010 • A FURTHER escalation in the battle between the Camden LINk and the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust came last week when three governors of the trust...
  • Published: 2 December, 2010 • FIRST the good news. Labour’s proposal for a new 60 pupil/year primary school on Liddell Road, West Hampstead, shows that they have finally accepted there is...
  • Published: 2 December, 2010 • THE Marchmont Association’s commemorative plaque scheme has been commended by English Heritage as a good exemplar of an independent scheme.  To date we...
  • Published: 26 November, 2010 • CONGRATS Wills, but do we need a monarchy?  Swoon, fawn and grovel is not the name of a bunch of solicitors for Cameron and Co. It’s how the media have...
  • Published: 26 November, 2010 • IT’S that time of year again.   As Christmas approaches our VIP – Very Important Pedestrian – Day has become an enjoyable part of the season...
  • Published: 26 November, 2010 • THE statistics published last week on health inequalities in Islington are shocking but they are not surprising (NHS shock figures back council’s Fairness...
  • Published: 26 November, 2010 • STUDENTS, lecturers, support workers and the public were united at a rally on Wednesday in protest at the cuts in the education maintenance allowance (...
  • Published: 26 November, 2010 • FRANCIS Wilkinson writes in objection to the new site for Ashmount School on the grounds that it is “remote” and “inconvenient”, saying...
  • Published: 26 November, 2010 • I’M not too sure what agenda Donal Kennedy might have in stating that the British were prepared to use chemical weapons in the event of the Germans landing...