Latest Letters

  • Corin’s quiet strengths
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • JOHN Gulliver’s was an excellent tribute to Corin Redgrave in his column last week (De Profundis, at the loss of a great actor). I met him in 1970 at the...
  • Curbing the powers of the bailiffs
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • I TRUST I was not alone in my indignation on reading of the single mother, Kate Walters,  who was pursued by bailiffs over a £1.50 fare (£1.50...
  • Letters to the Editor - We need HS2 details now
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • DOZENS of Primrose Hill residents have been in touch with us in the past few days, as well as the 100-plus who attended last week’s packed meeting (Residents...
  • Letters to the Editor - Greens to help the aged
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • ON your pages Illtyd Harrington reflected on our aging society (Elderly will be forgotten again after election, April 15). He noted the huge voting power of...
  • Letters to the Editor - Democracy? I’m not allowed to display election posters
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • I RECEIVED as a member of Camden Federation of Private Tenants a leaflet last week informing me that an opportunity was available for tenants of all tenures...
  • CNJ Comment - Railroading a high-speed line with stunning arrogance
    Published: 22 April, 2010 ARE we living under a dictatorship? Decades ago, the Tory peer, Lord Hailsham, described our first-past-the-post parliamentary system as an “elective dictatorship...
  • Look again at use of King’s Cross lands
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • PLANNING permission granted by Camden for building on the King’s Cross Railway Lands (aka King’s Cross Central) in March 2006 was in outline only; the...
  • A more equal society is good for you
    Published: 22 April, 2010 Reversing the wealth gap of the past 30 years  would bring massive gains to the United Kingdom, argues Kathryn Busby of The Equality Trust “I increased the gap...
  • Time for an inquiry into role of prison staff
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • I WELL remember some time ago reading in the New Journal of the plight of Ryan St George, the prisoner left brain-damaged after a fall in his prison cell. Now...
  • How many?
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • I HAVE received a leaflet from Chris Philp proclaiming that there are four reasons to vote for him in Hampstead & Kilburn. I noted this with amusement as...
  • Political climate
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • A 200-strong enthusiastic crowd turned out for the first Hampstead & Kilburn Green hustings that took place last Wednesday. It was jointly organised by...
  • Costly cuts on the buses
    Publsihed: 22 April, 2010 • Tory mayor Boris Johnson took great pride in cutting bus services and hiking the cost of using them in his last budget.  Many people in King’s Cross...
  • Peddling a myth?
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • I ATTENDED the hustings in Kilburn and was disappointed to hear both the Labour and Tory candidates for the new Hampstead and Kilburn constituency peddling the...
  • Safer teams
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • WALKING up West End Lane over the weekend, I saw the new Safer Neighbourhoods Team office opposite West Hampstead tube was nearly ready to open – the new...
  • A president?
    Published: 22 April, 2010 • THE support for Nick Clegg following the national leaders’ debate phased me as I attended hustings in Highgate. Following the debate we’ve had absurd...