Latest Letters

  • FORUM: Wealth gap makes us all the poorer
    Published: 23 June, 2011 by ANDREW JOHNSON HE probably won’t like the comparison, but Professor Richard Wilkinson, the architect of a ground­breaking report into social inequality,...
  • Costly TV
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • I AGREE with Clem Alford’s comments (Digital TV challenge, Letters, June 16) concerning the Integrated Reception System. I too am concerned with regards to the...
  • Paupers’ grave case that touched three families
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • I EXTEND my sympathy to the family of Anthony Myers (Family sue over burial of ‘pauper’, June 16).  It was with sadness and anger that I read of the...
  • Attacks by people and dogs put danger from foxes into perspective
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • IN terms of risk to children from possible fox attacks, we could be in danger of losing all sense of perspective (Graham Norton’s letter, Reports of attacks by...
  • Education views, please
    Published: 23 June, 2011 • WE welcome the lively interest shown in the work of Camden’s Education Commission and expressed in the New Journal. We are currently gathering evidence from all...
  • Pappano will be back…
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • YOUR review of the Royal Opera House production of Tosca stated that this was the final production of musical director Antonio Pappano and that this was his final...
  • Homes fit for families?
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • THE city council’s housing department wrote to me in reply to an inquiry about rehousing a husband and wife and their four sons currently living in a two-bed...
  • Describing death camps
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • WE would remind those either unaware of the facts or careless in their choice of words, that Auschwitz-Birkenau and other death camps were conceived, built and...
  • How to save a healthy £10billion
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • THE NHS has never had such high patient satisfaction since its founding, has a record of achieving good value for money compared with other countries and provides...
  • The dead hand of Whitehall
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • AS the Localism Bill continues to work its way through parliament, it’s important to note that in our experience it’s mandarins and not ministers who are...
  • Law says the people have a right to know on spending
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • FURTHER to your report (Freedom of Information is not for us, May 6), may I inform not only your readership but through the West End Extra also councillors Guthrie...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 17 June, 2011 DURING the 1960s and until his death in 1976 I spent much of my spare time at the home of Patrick Balfour, the third Baron Kinross at No 4 Warwick Avenue, Little Venice....
  • These tenants deserve to have a say on big decision
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • AT Islington Leaseholders Association meeting, two council employees  explained why the tenants and leaseholders of street properties were not invited onto the...
  • Cuts and ‘casualised’ staff... is this our libraries’ future?
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • THE current consultation on shaping the future of the library service, with its inclusion of setting up a trust, is a serious threat to library services and jobs. What...
  • Wanted: young volunteers who can help spruce up Union Chapel
    Published: 17 June, 2011 • WE are looking for a group of young volunteers to spend part of their holidays preserving and protecting Islington Union Chapel, as part of Conservation Service...