Latest Letters

  • Roundhouse battle goes on despite demolition decision
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • FOR more than eight months now, the Highbury Roundhouse has only had half a site. Due to a closure order on the back building, we have had to operate out of...
  • Threat to real shops
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • ONE of the things I’ve deplored most in years of frequenting the West End has been the decline of the specialist bookshop.  The Alternative Bookshop, Collet...
  • Lay off the ‘hot doggies’
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • UNLICENSED vendors outside the British Museum have recently had their equipment seized by Camden, who are trying to get rid of all hot dog vendors in the area.  On...
  • Rich politicians don’t care about the people
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • I AM dismayed and outraged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat cuts and their plans in Westminster borough. These savage cuts by government are devastating and...
  • Rent increases will hit the middle-earners hard
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • WESTMINSTER Council tenants already pay the highest rents in London and last month the Conservatives increased rents again, this time by 6.4 per cent.  Now they...
  • Cut-price healthcare hurts
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • AS a former hospital porter who attended the recent Keep Our NHS Public meeting, I’d like to stress that opposition to stealth privatisation of health services is...
  • FORUM: Bill strikes at social housing heart
    Published: 20 May, 2011 by EILEEN SHORT MPs have been debating the Localism Bill, which includes clauses undermining secure tenancies and puts the long-term future of council housing ...
  • Safety comes first when replacing gas pipes on estates
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • GAS safety can be a worrying issue. So I’d like to set the record straight regarding gas works on Homes for Islington (HfI) estates.  National Grid is the...
  • Stop tinkering with electoral system, just make voting compulsory
    Published: 20 May, 2011 • CAROLINE Russell states that 57 per cent of voters in Islington said “yes” to AV (Victory for democracy, May 13). In fact, the picture is not quite as...
  • Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 19 May, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON WHATEVER happened to cold, clean state murderers? Quick, effective and always deadly.  We have lost our most successful political tool: the...
  • Talking rubbish
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • NEW, costly, waste incinerators are not the answer to the waste that blights Camden’s streets (Why waste incinerators are a real disaster, May 12).   The...
  • Population on the move
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • READERS may be interested to know that Camden Council has been doing its sums, and concludes that now more private tenants live in the borough than council tenants....
  • Bargain-basement healthcare will hurt
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • AS a former hospital porter who attended the Keep Our NHS Public event at Camden Town Hall, I’d like to stress that opposition to stealth privatisation of health...
  • Yes or No?
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • AM I missing something over AV, as councillors congratulate themselves for Camden voting Yes? According to the figures you printed:  Yes had 51.4 per cent; No 48.6...
  • Square deal
    Published: 19 May, 2011 • THANK you for the article highlighting our battle to keep the money promised for our square (Square pleads: Give back cash promised for facelift, May 12). We’d...