Latest Letters

  • CNJ COMMENT - Ditch the new Town Hall
    Published: 14 April, 2011 MUNICIPAL authorities should always abide by the golden rule – do not, under any circumstances, become property developers. That should be left to the men who know how...
  • FORUM: Europe’s new human tide of misery
    Published: 14 April, 2011 by ANGELA COBBINAH IT was a pitiful sight. The refugees sat in shocked silence on the pier, staring blankly ahead of them as relief workers milled about them handing...
  • FORUM: Deeds beyond theologians or nature vs nurture debate
    Published: 14 April, 2011 by Illtyd Harrington Deeds beyond theologians or nature vs nurture debate  Ask her how old she is and she will  tell you precisely to the second… ...
  • Have a care with street rubbish
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • THE government has asked councils not to impose penalties on those who put out their rubbish whenever and wherever they wish to do so. We shall be writing to the...
  • Our friends of libraries are a powerful resource
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • THE Friends of the Heath library in Keats Grove was formed about 15 years ago in response to threatened closure.  Thanks to the annual book sale each October...
  • People’s fund a one-off of just £1.44m
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • IT is something of a relief to hear that the Labour administration has launched the Camden People’s Fund to mitigate the damaging cuts to services and the...
  • Babel shame
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • SHAME on Theo Blackwell for ruthlessly deviating from the priorities of the Labour administration in order to build a £100million “Tower of Babel”...
  • Front-line jobs
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • I COMMEND the community spirit of the Labour backbenchers to finally dare challenge the leadership over their irresponsible move to waste taxpayers’ money on a...
  • The last thing!
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • AT 4pm on Friday I was in the St Pancras Library and counted 71 customers busy using this valuable facility. These included 22 children many no doubt from Argyle...
  • Railroading HS2 through
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • WHEN I read your interview (New HS2 homes ‘will be in Camden’, April 7),  I wondered about Ian Jordan.  It seems, his job is to railroad through...
  • Protecting the best we have
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • TO protect as many front-line services as we can, decisions need to be made for the short, medium and long term to find savings to ensure the best of what we have...
  • Pool privacy
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • I CANNOT understand the owner of Boris Johnson’s old house in Primrose Hill wanting to spend so much money on a basement cinema and swimming pool (Boris gets...
  • Quality control?
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • I HAD to laugh recently, well choke more like, when I read that the government is considering giving up to £1,000 to social housing tenants to go towards home...
  • No right to ban party
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • I SEE that Camden Council has taken upon itself to ban a “Not the Royal Wedding” party which “Republic” planned to hold in Earlham Street....
  • Cut if you must, but save our Terry!
    Published: 14 April, 2011 • ALONG with many others, I am horrified to hear that trustees of the London Irish Centre would even consider letting Terry McEneaney go (Backlash over ousted green man...