Latest Letters

  • How about a revolution?
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • AS an unelected coalition seeks to impose swingeing changes on our society, shouldn’t we be taking a tip from the Arab world and demand a democratic election...
  • Queen’s cross
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • Boudica: and there she stands in all her glory steadfast.  Her trident grasped in hand. Facing the King’s Cross.  Formidable mother – an...
  • Sounds of West Central
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • FOR any citizen who lives in WC1 and WC2 and particularly those who live in and around the Brunswick Centre, the British Library has a very interesting CD on sale...
  • Social enterprises do help people
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • YOUR editorial says that voluntary-run bodies exist to help people, not make a profit, like The People’s Supermarket (Cameron visit leaves the ‘Big...
  • Stand up to save the libraries
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • WHILE we acknowledge that the council has been placed between a rock and a hard place in having to carry out the government’s vicious spending cuts,...
  • Sorry Sam, blame Tories
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • IN response to your article (Where’s Sam when we need her? Centre for the elderly championed by PM’s wife faces closure, February 17), there were...
  • Not a private patient, so I didn’t get to see the doctor
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • BECAUSE I was given an appointment for a pre-operative examination that post-dated the actual operation at the Royal Free Hospital, my GP alerted the vascular...
  • CNJ COMMENT - We need a united front against the scattergun Coalition
    Published: 24 February, 2011 DIVIDE and rule. Foreign powers often conquer by exploiting religious differences in the subjugated nations. In a way, the present Coalition may be following the same...
  • FORUM: Fighting massive cuts to childcare
    Published: 24 February, 2011 by Sara Ayech At the weekend anti-cuts campaigners took their protest – and children – to the heart of Barclays Bank branches, including the one in...
  • FORUM - NASIM ALI : Resist Cameron’s ‘right’ revolution
    Published: 24 February, 2011 by NASIM ALI LAST night Camden Council’s cabinet met for the final time before the budget-setting meeting next week.  Monday will be a momentous day for our...
  • Dirty work!
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • THE library that I mainly use is at West Hampstead, where I also take my daughter to the children’s section.  And I use Kilburn and Swiss Cottage....
  • Campaign
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • I CONTINUE to admire the dedication Alan Templeton puts into Camden Public Libraries Users’ Group and the defence against library closures.   However,...
  • Seed corn of the mind
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • I HAVE recently been told that there is a plan to close the Heath Library and I am shocked such a decision would even be considered.  Some years ago I spent a...
  • No choice on bed cuts
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • ON Wednesday I attended a consultation meeting about the mental health trust’s (Camden and Islington Foundation Trust) plans to close 103 beds in Camden....
  • Mental health at the centre of the community
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • WE write as multi-faith partners in delivering chaplaincy services at the Huntley Centre, a hospital offering mental health services in St Pancras.  This is a...