Latest Letters

  • Protest to prevent Tube disaster
    Published: 4 February 2010 Editor's Comment IT is quite amazing how Londoners, with a patience that defies description, put up with today’s monumentally overcrowded Tube system. Once, only...
  • Blair’s ‘no regrets’ may return to haunt him
    Philippe Sands QC reflects on  the ex-prime minister’s performance  at the Iraq Inquiry – and reveals how the issue has split his family down the middle Published: 4 February...
  • Back bench viewpoint
    Published: 4 February • MY letter expressing the need to change Camden’s focus during icy conditions away from cars and towards favouring pedestrians by prioritising clearing pavements...
  • Doughty fighters
    Published: 4 February 2010 • IT was sad and poignant that the deaths of Harriet Garland and Avis Hutt should be reported in the same week (New Journal, January 28). I write on behalf of Age...
  • Odd election odds
    Published: 4 February 2010 • I RECEIVED an election leaflet from Hampstead Conservative candidate Chris Philp which claimed William Hill had him as favourite for the general election on odds of...
  • Don’t take our borough off line!
    Published: 4 February 2010 • I AM dismayed by the proposal of the council to cut UK online funding in Camden by 82.5 per cent. Older people and people with disabilities, members of the Somali...
  • Hampers
    Published: 4 February 2010 • TENANTS of Broadway in Camden were the beneficiaries of 25 generous Christmas hampers donated by the New Journal. This saved our service an estimated £450 in...
  • Concrete egg-box sale
    Published: 4 February 2010 • DID you know that the council are selling off the Town Hall Annexe,  the concrete egg-box on Euston Road opposite St Pancras? No one knows how much it is being...
  • More than a snap
    Published: 4 February 2010 • ARLEEN Stainthorpe is right, this is no snap shot! (Who is in the picture? January 28.)  The picture was taken by the photographer Henry Grant (1907-2004):...
  • Something missing
    • YOU appear to have omitted the word “advertorial” above your piece on Camden’s mayor being “put through his paces” on a piece of equipment provided by a back...
  • School’s new look
    • FOR many, January brings new beginnings and this is the case for pupils and teachers at Holloway School as they move into new facilities. The school is part of the national Building Schools...
  • Warning from past
    • THE Tribune’s coverage of the GCSE results focused on a “warning” that too little had been done to improve results (You must do even better with GCSEs, January 15). But who...
  • Mission to Gaza
    • ISLINGTON Friends of Yibna [IFY] is very grateful to Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North, for his visit to besieged Gaza earlier this month. During his visit Jeremy handed over two ...
  • Letters: How to beat a ban on football in the park
    Published: 29 January 2010 I'LL help (Sports are kicked out of St James’s Park, January 22). Pull down the pile of bricks aka Buckingham Palace, demolish the enclosing walls – the Queen...
  • Freedom Pass is safe
    • IF someone tries to tell you the Freedom Pass is under threat, don’t listen to them. The pass was introduced by the Labour-controlled Greater London Council in 1974. It has been funded...