Latest Letters

  • Calm park?
    Published: 18 November, 2010 • HAS anyone noticed how many vehicles are routinely parked in Waterlow Park? Six, seven? Are they strictly necessary because they are spoiling the tranquillity of...
  • Is this a greedy land grab?
    Published: 18 November, 2010 • SINCE June 2009 it has been known that six estates in Gospel Oak/Lismore Circus area have been selected for “regeneration”. Which sounds great. Except...
  • Defend the NHS – now!
    Published: 18 November, 2010 • AT a meeting in Camden Town Hall, organised by Keep Our NHS Public (KONP), I heard with sinking heart about the white paper that threatens every aspect of our...
  • Olympic bosses treat us like an occupying power
    • YOUR story last week about the Olympic plans for Bloomsbury refers to “a bid to make Bloomsbury the centre for more than 5,000 members of the world’s press” during the...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Those with grand ideas forget the people at their peril
    Published: 18 November, 2010 THOSE who live on council estates have long learned that it is best to beware planners, architects and councillors seized with new ideas! Any new proposal, even on the...
  • FORUM: A new legitimacy for direct action
    Published: 18 November, 2010 by JONATHAN MOSES Betrayed by the democratic process, our right to protest will not be a right to be ignored Apathetic. Apolitical.  It has been easy to dismiss our...
  • Standing up for walkers
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • TRANSPORT for London has now said that “walking programmes are among the first to face cuts” and no longer gives boroughs a specific funding pot for...
  • For sale: ‘the manor’
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • CLOSE down Moreland School; shift Moreland’s pupils to St Luke’s. Build a new St Luke’s School at Moreland; shift St Luke’s pupils to...
  • The Irish fought too
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • WITH Remembrance Sunday approaching, I would ask readers to remember the bravery and sacrifice of the Irish community. No country per head of population...
  • Humiliated at tribunal
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • AT a time when the government is pulling billions out of the social housing budget, yet more evidence emerges of the reckless spending engaged in by Islington...
  • Signs of our festive times
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • WHICH signs is the council going to put up this year – “Merry Christmas” or, so it does not offend other religions, “Season’s...
  • School did have future
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • DAVID Barry claims that the expert report commissioned by Islington Council concluded that the existing Ashmount School could not be made fit for purpose (Building...
  • Enclave a design gem
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • THE Lords has been debating this week whether the bonfire of the quangos – the axing and merging of hundreds of public bodies – is unconstitutional....
  • Freedom... at a price
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • WITH regard to the possible axing of the Freedom Pass – maybe the last bit of freedom  the Eton-led government has been so hasty to cut, in an attempt...
  • In bed with landlords
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • ASK tenants if they expect more of their landlords and they will generally reply in the affirmative.  Tenants will generally mean by this that they expect a...