Latest Letters

  • Out in the cold, we won’t be fuelled again
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • THE winter fuel allowance is to be reduced by £50 for pensioners.  Those over 80 will lose £100.  But this is not a reduction, insists a...
  • A long wait for a book
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • YOUR correspondent Susan Kaye is wrong to take such a complacent view of the cuts to library services (Letters, This is hardly a programme of closures, March 25). Not...
  • Soho’s road closure crisis
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • IT isn’t merely desirable for Westminster City Council to impose conditions on the sale of commercial property in Soho (Letters, March 18), it is absolutely...
  • Who killed Yvonne Fletcher?
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • THE departure of Dr Paul Knapman as Westminster Coroner marks the end of a notable era in public affairs (A coroner with a quest for justice, Profile March 25)....
  • Victimising rough sleepers is wrong
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • THE numbers sleeping rough in London have declined considerably in recent years, thanks to the growing experience and professionalism of voluntary organisations and...
  • Never mind the flower beds, just dump the gyratory
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • AT Archway we are being consulted again about the gyratory: do we want a quarter of the £2million available spent on temporary crossings and...
  • Cuts widen the divide
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • ISLINGTON Green Party and Green parties from across the country were among the hundreds of thousands marching against the cuts on Saturday.  Greens know there...
  • Speaking up for canals
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • MANY canal campaigners are pleased to hear the news that Assembly member Jenny Jones, of the London Greens, is standing against Boris Johnson and Ken Livingstone in...
  • Resistance on railways
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • IN his review of Engines of War: How Wars Were Won or Lost on the Railways, Peter Gruner writes glibly: “The deportations would not have been possible without...
  • Pipes deface our homes
    Published: 1 April, 2011 • WE are unhappy with the gas and electrical work undertaken recently in Inworth Walk, Islington, and believe the whole project has been ill thought out from the start....
  • In defence of workers
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • I AM so glad Labour council leader Catherine West is to investigate a council contractor, Enterprise, which has been accused by the GMB union of employing agency...
  • Poll debate
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • WE call for a local debate in Camden to give people the chance to hear the arguments and make up their minds in the run-up to the first nationwide referendum since...
  • Ambitions!
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • YET again council leader Nasim Ali is hedging his bets – this time over the high-speed train programme, (New Journal, March 24). I remember him speaking out...
  • An outrage
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • THE more I read about the government’s HS2 proposals to build a fast speed train from Euston to the suburbs of Birmingham, the more outraged I become (Letters,...
  • Implications go wider
    Published: 31 March, 2011 • MAY I correct a remark in your editorial (A no show from HS2 and a non-committal council, March 24)? You write that “…essentially, only two wards in the...