Latest Letters

  • It’s criminal for your dog to attack a swan – or me!
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • GUINEVRE and Trelawney Ffrench can be nastily sarcastic, if they like, about the problem of unmindful dog-owners killing swans and harassing passers-by on Hampstead...
  • CNJ COMMENT - New council’s work cut out in pay balancing act
    Published: 3 June, 2010 THE new Labour Council’s move to increase the wages of its lowest-paid workers should be applauded. Companies employed to carry out services for the council will only...
  • Community with commitment and talent
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • HAVING run to represent the people of West Hampstead in Camden Council over the last year,  I want to thank all those who I met on the campaign and all those who...
  • More democratic
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • I HOPE the Local Forum Consultation continues its ideal alternative to tenants meetings, especially given that questions can be asked from the floor.  There is...
  • It’s wrong to think of new bus as a Routemaster
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • THE letter (Still a long way to go on Routemaster, May 27) from a “forum” for the disabled about what is wrongly referred to as a new “Routemaster...
  • Greed breeds in our political pool
    Published: 3 June 2010 In the face of increasing greed, we have become a nation of sleepwalkers, couch potatoes and lotus-eaters proud of our political ignorance and indifferent to the actions...
  • Ritual slaughter has no place at the World Cup finals
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • LIKE millions of people around the world, I was looking forward to watching the World Cup in South Africa on TV.  Sadly, after learning that a bull is to be...
  • Steven will be missed
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • I WAS saddened to read of Steven Fry’s comparatively early death in Josie Hinton’s tribute to him (Steven overcame all odds, May 27). I didn’t know...
  • Towpath cyclist kills gosling
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • I AM concerned about the flagrant disregard by many cyclists for both the code of conduct and other signage along the stretch of canal between Camden and King’s...
  • Poppycock
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • DESPITE all the protests and substantial arguments including the detail given in a House of Commons debate, on March 4 2010, the Crown Estate Commissioners remain...
  • No notice!
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • THE Crown Estate knew they were going to sell these estates a year ago, and had no intention of taking any notice of their tenants’ opinions and concerns over the...
  • The Crown Estate don’t ‘do’ listening
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • WHILE the Crown Estate reminds us that it operates under the banner of “integrity”, “stewardship” and “trust”, clearly “...
  • Just say no
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • I AM embarrassed and irritated by your story (NHS chiefs and their £35k logo, May 27). Embarrassed because a fellow graphic designer (unnamed I notice) has lent...
  • A practice translating into costs
    • IN view of the fact that central government, of necessity, are having to make stringent financial cuts, perhaps the new council in Camden could start to make a few of their own. It is the...
  • HS2 must go
    Published: 3 June, 2010 • IT’S time to call “time” on Lord Adonis’s crazy HS2 rail scheme, which would have destroyed hundreds of homes immediately north east of Euston...