Latest Letters

  • A minimum age requirement
    Published: 30 September, 2010 • WHAT a convoluted system the Labour party devised  to elect their leader.  The elevated one enjoys his position thanks to the trade unions. Figures show...
  • Revolution cancelled?
    Published: 30 September, 2010 • FOUR women turned up to an advertised 11.30am demonstration outside Somerfield’s supermarket in Camden town on Saturday 25th September. We would like you to...
  • Free school too small
    Published: 30 September, 2010 • REGARDLESS of the underlying principles as to whether there should be free schools at all, a major consideration surely should have been the undoubted...
  • Bravery of man who was attacked
    Published: 30 September, 2010 • REGARDING Edin Suljic (Gang who tried to rob me is an example of failed society, September 23) how brave he is; someone was watching over him. He is obviously a...
  • Front-line Hampstead health service to be cut
    Published: 30 September, 2010 • IT is hard to believe the proposals contained in the latest papers from the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust that they wish to cut more than 100 of...
  • Getting the right acronyms for our police
    Published: 30 September, 2010 • THANK you for giving me and my new book an in-depth interview slot in Review (September 23). As a Camden resident and avid CNJ reader it was great to get such...
  • Benefit cuts will bring rise in the bill for our homeless
    Published: 30 September, 2010 • MANY people are unaware that cuts in housing benefit will affect council, housing association and private sector tenants (True cost of cutting housing benefit,...
  • Free meals? That’s rich
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • SINCE councils have to know which families are financially eligible for free school meals in order to measure the attainment of disadvantaged children, there is...
  • Ghetto talk provocative
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • TOM Gooding makes an exaggerated  and provocative analogy between Gaza today and the Nazi ghettos (From Blitz to Gaza. September 10). Life in Gaza, despite...
  • Let’s enjoy our canal
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • IF I read one more letter moaning about the recent work that British Waterways did on the canal, I’ll jump in it.  I am a regular canal user, mainly as...
  • Thief puts the boot in
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • ON Tuesday I took my baby daughter to South Library in Essex Road, Islington. I had no choice but to leave the pram outside at the lobby. Since I was only going...
  • Lessons of firm’s failure
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • HOMES for Islington (HfI) was recently on the point of signing a 10-year contract with Connaught for cyclical repairs and major works when the firm went into...
  • NHS must be national
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • AT a meeting of Islington LINk  we were asked for our views on the new health White Paper. I stated my belief that the vast majority of the population wishes...
  • Rumours of closures
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • AT last Monday’s meeting of Lyon Street area housing panel, I felt obliged to ask a senior member of Homes for Islington (HfI) to confirm the proposed date...
  • A people’s champion, sadly missed but never forgotten
    Published: 24 September, 2010 • THERE are moments when letters are written with a heavy heart. The death of  Camden Labour councillor Dave Horan is one such moment.  Dave died last...