Latest Letters

  • St Anne’s looks to future
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • DAVID Gleeson (Letters, January 14) complains that St Anne’s Parochial Church Council has been antagonistic towards the Soho Society despite David Gilmore...
  • Alternative to banks
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • DOES anyone else share our disgust at the announcements that high street bank executives are to continue to pay themselves enormous bonuses even as the taxpayer...
  • Students’ lifeline cut
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THIS has been a bad week for Islington. Parliament has agreed the second reading of the Localism Bill, the government has published its Health Bill and on Wednesday...
  • DNA: the jury is out
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THE Review talks about the fallibility of DNA matches in connection with the Hanratty case (Hanratty – the campaign to clear his name continues, January 14)....
  • Health in firm hands?
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • WE need a health system that meets health needs, not one that places our health in the hands of private businesses, that involves spending £2billion to place...
  • Shameless opposition
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I AM tempted to say the Lib Dems were very good at “confusion and division” when running the Town Hall (‘Cynical’ plan by Lib Dems to divide...
  • Reverse snobbery
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I READ with much distaste your report on the Fairness Commission’s meeting in which Professor Richard Wilkinson and Liberal Democrat councillor Tracy Ismail...
  • Green jobs in danger
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I AM dismayed to learn from a reliable source that Islington Council is planning to axe the jobs of a significant number of nature conservation staff at the Ecology...
  • Virtual doc will see you
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • TOM Foot describes how the directors of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust have come up with a whole new 21st century solution – virtual psychiatric...
  • Memories of market that was a child’s wonderland
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I READ with great interest your editorial on Exmouth Market, with the photograph of a group who were singing the its praises (Market values, January 14). Sorry, it...
  • We face time-consuming search for a place to park
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • IN Cressida Road, Archway, we have had controlled parking zone (CPZ) restrictions in place from 10am to 2pm for a number of years, so the proposed “roamer...
  • Referendum
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • A SMALL increase in council tax to save front- line and play services would be acceptable. Although this is against Labour policy in these unusual times a...
  • In work now
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I AM a dad of 28 and have lived in Kentish Town with my wife and two sons since 2006 and all my life before then; we both work.  With a mortgage and life...
  • Imaginative
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I SUPPORT the idea of paying an additional amount of council tax rather than lose front line services (An emotive balancing act, January 13).  I think it would...
  • Pay us a visit
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • WHAT, fearlessly quoting his plumber, and without even leaving his kitchen, John Gulliver (January 13) follows the usual New Journal line of portraying Gospel Oak...