Latest Letters

  • Free travel but ditch your cars
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • ILLTYD Harrington (As I please, October 7) is right about the need to retain the Freedom Pass for social reasons. We also need it for environmental reasons...
  • It’s depressing to be seen as drink and drugs destination
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • I WOULD like to correct a slight misunderstanding in the article, Flip flops for drunk revellers (October 7). What I said was drinkers should not be allowed...
  • Lesson of rent strike is that we must defend basic rights
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • YOUR article about the 1960 St Pancras rent strike (At 6.45am the bailiffs came... then police stormed the flat, October 7) was a powerful reminder of how poor...
  • Veterans’ fight
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • CONGRATULATIONS to Dan Carrier for his fantastic article marking the 50th anniversary of the St Pancras rent strike. It paid tribute to veterans like Edie...
  • Irate woman confronts egg-throwing ‘cowards’
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • THE egg throwing on Agar Grove estate you reported in August 2009  is still continuing. The police may regard this activity as of little importance,...
  • CNJ COMMENT - A more centralised localism? It just doesn’t stack up
    Published: 14 October, 2010 ARE the Labour-controlled councils of Camden and Islington now being lured  down the same path that has beckoned David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Vince Cable? Both...
  • Community policing
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • AT a recent public meeting organised by the Camden Council Police Consultative Group (CCPCG) new Camden Borough Police Commander Chief Supt John Sutherland...
  • Cuts anything but fair
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • THE Conservative/Lib Dem coalition went to great lengths to promise that cuts would be fair and progressive. But nothing could be further from the truth. The...
  • FORUM: David Cameron’s cutting words about benefits are false
    Published: 14 October, 2010 by GRACE LIVINGSTONE Changes to housing benefit are a ticking time bomb of evictions and homelessness in Camden YOU walk down the road on your way to work and you see the...
  • Sell-out over tuition fees
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • YOU would think  the Lib Dems, whose election manifesto stated they would scrap unfair university tuition fees for students taking their first degree and...
  • Echo of Tony’s promises
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • READING Councillor Nasim Ali’s letter (New leader demonstrates party’s optimism, October 7) eulogising Ed Miliband and the new New Labour reminds me of...
  • Store war over chairs
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • I HAVE been battling for more than a year with Sainsbury’s to provide chairs at its Mornington Crescent branch. I’m afraid Sainsbury’s is...
  • Criminals at the top
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • WITH a national debt of £155billion and growing, there are going to have to be cuts. The question is: where are they going to be made? The government...
  • We need a little peace
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • I WAS totally shocked to hear that Councillor Heather Johnson (Bold vision for Regent’s Place revealed, September 23) thinks that the area is quiet, and...
  • Will we have to take to the streets again to save libraries from axe?
    Published: 14 October, 2010 • COMMUNITY activists in Highgate are gearing up to battle Camden Council as impending cuts to public services threaten libraries. Labour councillor Valerie...