Latest Letters

  • Thanks for free lunch
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • I NEARLY dropped dead when I read that the council had decided to put on a free Christmas lunch for some pensioners (MP goes on Santa stand-by as Town Hall’s...
  • Threat to a vital lifeline
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • THE government is to remove the mobility component of disability living allowance for people in residential care.  As an unintended consequence of this, many...
  • Victims of recycle ‘tax’
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • IN Labour’s manifesto in May the party pledged: “We will ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account in every decision we make....
  • Why pensioners fear the coming cuts
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • THE leaked council officers’ report on budget “cuts” has really alarmed pensioners (Cuts hit-list: how the axe could fall, December 10). ...
  • ’Tis the season to defend welfare state
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • YOUR reporter Terry Messenger correctly pointed out that, at the recent picket organised by Islington – Hands Off Our Public Services (IHOOPS) outside a...
  • Real estate values rule again as Roundhouse faces closure
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • LOOKS like we’re back to square one, with real estate values more important than community livelihood and wellbeing.    As a result of the oil boom...
  • There’s snow such law
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • CAN someone out there with legal knowledge tell us the name of the law by which a person would  be prosecuted for an accident if they had cleared the snow...
  • Coalition’s falsehood
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • THE coalition government’s commit­ment to transparency has not survived for long.  In introducing the “new” early integration grant they...
  • That graffiti on Lulworth tower block
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • LESTER May is correct in describing the huge graffiti which has recently appeared on the roof of Lulworth, a 17-storey tower block, and which will hopefully...
  • Who runs this lousy world?
    Published: 23 December, 2010 • THE plans for the medical research centre to be built behind the British Library are going ahead following the decision of the council’s development control...
  • Let art lovers decide the works that they should view
    Published: 17 December, 2010 • GFEST recently held a London-wide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people arts festival which included an exhibition at InterChange in Hampstead Town Hall....
  • Choices on tuition fees
    Published: 17 December, 2010 • IN the aftermath of the “student” riots it is easy to be distracted by stories of the violent few, but we mustn’t forget what these changes are...
  • Expenses gaps remain
    Published: 17 December, 2010 • ONLY some totals of directors’ expenses have been published on Homes for Islington’s website (Expenses go on view, December 10).  Four months ago...
  • They say we’re all in this together... Bah! Humbug!
    Published: 17 December, 2010 • IN the spirit of a jolly jape that the ex-public schoolboys might appreciate I have forwarded to Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Clegg my own poster for Charles...
  • Estate right to be angry
    Published: 17 December, 2010 • I WAS certainly unhappy with the state of affairs with Spa Green’s blighted heating system following £1million capital expenditure in the last two...