Latest Letters

  • What keeps HS2 on track?
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • CONGRATULATIONS to Peter Jones for an excellent article (Forum, March 3) demolishing all of the arguments put forward on favour of HS2, the proposed new high speed...
  • Front-line cuts unavoidable
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • YOUR editorial about Camden Labour’s position on the budget was unfair and inaccurate.  You state: “One cannot help but think that the Labour...
  • A community enterprise that deserves our support
    Published: 10 March, 2011 • WELL done with  your stirring editorial call (The People’s Supermarket, March 3), for Camden’s Labour council to do the right thing by not treating...
  • CNJ COMMENT - We must unite and fight to save our cherished NHS
    Published: 10 March, 2011 BIT by bit, stone by stone, the National Health Service – cherished, without any doubt by the British nation – is being dismantled. It was created in the late-...
  • FORUM: Value-for-money can avoid cuts
    Published: 10 March, 2011 by DON WILLIAMS Unlike Labour, with its controversial budget, Camden Conservatives would have no cuts to essential front-line services in 2011/12 On Monday February 28...
  • FORUM: Perils of meddling in the Middle East
    Published: 4 March, 2011 by JEREMY CORBYN A whirlwind of unrest is blowing through the Middle East. But the lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan warn against the West’s military involvement  ON...
  • Dangerously innumerate
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • IF Ronnie Reagan thought, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”, are the 10 most dangerous words in the English language (Diary,...
  • Miller’s moral message
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • ARTHUR Miller (Miller’s tale, by the man who knew him best, Review, February 25) had a message for today: “This ripping off of Good and Evil labels from...
  • Talk sense about the Census
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • THE exotically named Mr Floru sounds like a complete fool (Questions offend  census sensibilities of Tory Jean-Paul, Diary, February 25).  The Census is not...
  • It’s one long holiday for pupils these days
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • MUST we have this half-term holiday in February? What is the purpose of this break so soon after Christmas? Do children and teachers need this holiday less than two...
  • Mr Fox lives it up
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • THAT wily old fox who was recently evicted from the top of the Shard – which will become the EU’s tallest building – has certainly hit the jackpot in...
  • Isn’t it the ‘Big sell-out’?
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • THEY say that in war the first casualty is the truth. And so it is with the current battle over public spending cuts. Last week, Westminster City Council put out a...
  • If it’s bonuses for some, then why not bonuses all round?
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • IT does seem absurd that housing officers and staff of CityWest Homes should get extra bonuses for meeting targets that they should meet under their contractual...
  • Egypt regime change boosts our hopes of Gaza visit
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • IT was wonderful reading the optimistic accounts of Highbury Fields café owner Yehia El-Nerner, bringing home the inspiration shown by the millions of Egyptians...
  • Broadband just so slow
    Published: 4 March, 2011 • I HAVE discovered, by persistently complaining about problems with my broadband connection, that the firm involved appears to have been selling packages beyond its...