Latest Letters

  • Has no one the courage to oppose these health cuts?
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • THE letter in last week’s Tribune seems to be a bit unfair to Islington Borough User Group (iBUG). It is not that group’s fault that it is reliant on...
  • Under-attack housing body has reached its sell-by date
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • MAY I congratulate Councillor Lucy Rigby for the support she has shown to residents of Lorraine estate, in Holloway, who are being treated with contempt by Homes...
  • A time to remember
    Published: 5 November, 2010 • THIS year Remembrance Sunday falls on November 14. I should like as many people as possible to join me for the Remembrance Sunday parade and inter-faith service at...
  • Powell play in the heart of Downing Street
    Published: 4th November, 2010 ILLTYD HARRINGTON – AS I PLEASE NYE Bevan the man who laid the foundation stone of the NHS was a wordsmith in his own right. He turned that explosive noun “...
  • Collect taxes and boost the economy!
    The tax gap is about £120bn a year… 80 times bigger than the benefit fraud the government hopes to recover, argues expert Richard Murphy Published: 4th November, 2010 THE...
  • Greens’ wage priority
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • THANKS to the Kentish Town residents who supported me last Thursday and everyone who took the time to discuss the issues. Green Party campaigners found...
  • By-election thanks
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • MY warmest thanks to the voters of Kentish Town ward for electing me to represent them on Camden Council.  The result was unequivocal. I gained 53 per cent...
  • Tube strikes
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • TRANSPORT Commissioner Peter Hendy joked that Tube ticket office staff are so underworked they have time to read books.  He told a conference that if they...
  • Lost letter delivered
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • SOMEBODY came to my door the other day with a letter correctly addressed to me but wrongly delivered to his address.  He told me the letter had been “...
  • Crow vs Miliband
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • JOHN Gulliver as we know is a “left-winger” but when he espouses the cause of Bob Crow – a left-wing rabble rouser who only believes in...
  • Wheelchairs on the Heath
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • I WAS interested in the talk Sir Nicholas Kenyon gave to the Heath management (October 21).  Paths which are suitable for cyclists are also suitable for...
  • Barbican review evokes great memories of Merce
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • I READ the review by Sam Jones about Merce Cunningham’s last ballet at the Barbican (Quality of Merce’s not strained, October 28) with great joy...
  • Help for our neighbours in need
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • THE Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) and subsequent commentaries have highlighted the precarious lives led by many Camden residents.  This will not come...
  • Flip-flop on mergers?
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • DO I detect a smidgen of flip-flopping in Tory group leader Andrew Mennear’s letter (October 28) on the proposal that Camden and Islington share senior...
  • High-speed spending
    Published: 4th November, 2010 • I READ the spending review with relief when George Osborne pledged “…to ensure that capital projects of high, long-term economic value are funded...