Latest Letters

  • We should lure drivers out of their cars – not into them
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • ON Friday we went to the municipal offices in Upper Street to buy visitors’ parking permits. When we reached the counter after a 35-minute wait a helpful...
  • How wealth hits home
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • HIGHER tax rates might drive away some top-earners, as R Lyndon writes (Letters, January 28), but the main problem in London and the South-east is the ridiculously...
  • Who will protect leafy streets?
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • RESIDENTS are rightly concerned about whether Islington Council’s new tree policy will really protect our trees.  From 2006 to 2010, Green councillor...
  • FORUM: The bloody battle of Tahrir Square
    Published: 3 February, 2011 by SUNITA RAPPAI Cairo, a city in chaos as Egyptian battles Egyptian and  it’s impossible to know who is friend or foe CAIRO is on fire once again. I came...
  • FORUM: The bloody battle of Tahrir Square
    Published: 3 February, 2011 by SUNITA RAPPAI Cairo, a city in chaos as Egyptian battles Egyptian and it’s impossible to know who is friend or foe CAIRO is on fire once again. I am at home...
  • Were these election lies?
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • PRIOR to the last local government election one of the Labour candidates for our ward assured me that it was the party’s policy to retain the Town Hall Annexe...
  • Joan Stally helped those far away
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • THE passing of Joan Stally was indeed very sad – besides her considerable activities for local causes she also had a great interest in peoples far away. You...
  • Raise funds by penalising parked polluters
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • LAST year several Camden councillors seemed keen to take up a suggestion that would earn the borough quite a lot of money and considerably reduce street pollution....
  • Refuse to set a local budget
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • THE government, with planned cuts of over £80billion to public services, are bent on destroying the welfare state as we know it.  The cuts are...
  • Make the professionals pay
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • YOU ask for readers’ comments on Camden’s plans to “go begging to the bankers” and to argue that “a fraction of their income from...
  • Cuts that strike at the very heart of our children’s lives
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • MY 10-year-old has been using Camden play services since he was tiny.   We really value the love and continuity of care staff have given.   As a mixed-...
  • CNJ COMMENT- Crime map politicians are getting lost in pursuit of votes
    Published: 3 February, 2011 SURELY someone in the hierarchy of the police or at least that of their political masters must have heard of the law of unintended consequences. The idea of mapping crime...
  • FORUM: In Cairo, we watch, we wait, we hope
    Published: 3 February, 2011 by SUNITA RAPPAI On the streets of Cairo there is a sense that history is being made, even as the city blazed again last night  CAIRO is on fire once again. I am...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington - ‘As I Please’
    Published: 3 February, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON Remember the Jackal was also the Duke of Windsor  FORGET the green men from outer space. Think terrestrially. For the watchers and listeners...
  • About true friendship
    Published: 3 February, 2011 • ALAN Morrison (Anthology ‘review’ reveals thinly veiled snobberies, Letters, January 27) doesn’t appear to have heard of William Blake’s...