Latest Letters

  • End to the old sexual contract is a social revolution
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • THERE are three women out of the six candidates standing in Hampstead and Kilburn. That’s great, and that’s as it should be. But whoever wins will...
  • Poll day
    Publishing: 29 April, 2010 • IT’S a crying shame that the government has imposed on us general elections and local council elections on the same day. The general election has drowned the...
  • Security and rents
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • I WAS furious to read that Glenda Jackson’s suggestion that a future Conservative government will end security of tenure for council tenants and hike up...
  • Cuts fear
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • THE result of this election that I most fear is a Tory government that will take an axe to public services.  So I am anxious about anything that makes it more...
  • Equality
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • YOU rightly gave the Forum space (April 22) to Kathryn Busby of The Equality Trust to highlight the damage inequality does to all in our society. As she said,...
  • Gang war…
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • WAY back in 1981, I was walking through Notting Hill, when I came across the spectacle of Roy Jenkins on the steps of his palatial residence, waving goodbye to...
  • Home votes
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • POLITICIANS beware, the “gravy train” has hit the buffers and the casualties are, and will be, those who ignore the people’s call for change....
  • Business as usual – fighting over scraps from the table
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • ALL that happens at election time is that we vote for councillors to watch a scrutiny committee that watches a cabinet, that watches its executive members watch the...
  • A more equal society is good for you
    Published: 23 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 between...
  • A more equal society is good for you
    Published: 23 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...
  • It’s time to open up
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • MARTIN KLUTE Klute noted that NHS Islington’s chief executive seemed to regard herself as sole decision-maker regarding the proposal to close Whittington...
  • Letters to the Editor - At last, someone has said that homes body must go
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • I ATTENDED the latest tenants’ and leaseholders’ meeting, where election candidates were asked: “Should Homes for Islington (HfI) stay or should it...
  • Great Ormond Street doctor was not suspended by trust
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • THERE are a number of inaccuracies in your Diary report (No way to treat a doctor, April 16). As we told the West End Extra on April 14, Dr Kim Holt has never been...
  • Quiet strengths of Corin Redgrave
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • CORIN Redgrave was a talented, quiet and unassuming man (An Actor’s farewell, April 16). I met him in 1970 at the Dublin Castle in Camden when, along with...
  • Action for gardens
    Published: 23 April, 2010 • BROADLEY Gardens is still closed and there are no signs of any activity. However, we have just heard that work will start during April – a sudden burst of...