Latest Letters

  • Shops hit by fees rise
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • IT has been brought to the attention of Islington Chamber of Commerce that parking charges have been raised along with a change of usage of parking space.  Of...
  • What about the tax reliefs that benefit high-earners?
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • RICHARD Murphy showed how the tax reliefs that never appear in government spending statements provide “welfare” for the well-off (We suffer cuts, but...
  • Don’t be fooled: people in smart streets struggle too
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • I FEAR that Richard Wilkinson’s (The Spirit Level) idea that the better-off residents of Islington can be persuaded to cough up more council tax than they...
  • Unfortunate
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • HOW unfortunate that our otherwise delightful and clever council leader should let slip his dismay that we have a free press: “It is unfortunate that the...
  • Homes for living in
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • THE proposed changes to housing benefit are driven by ideology and greed. We all know that the Tories are the party of the landlord and these proposed changes are...
  • Thatcher’s agenda
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • THE Tory party are again in government and they appear to be hell-bent on carrying on with Margaret Thatcher’s agenda by selling off our public services,...
  • Workhouse is just as it should be
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • THE threatened former Strand Union Workhouse is unique in being the finest intact example of an 18th century purpose-built workhouse/infirmary left standing in...
  • When the church and society have a falling out
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • I AM a lifetime member of The Soho Society and have greatly appreciated its efforts in defending the integrity of historic buildings and the unique ambience of the...
  • Park no place for memorial
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • I WRITE to you on behalf of those who lost their lives in defence of our freedoms and traditional values.  But a great wrong is to be perpetrated in their...
  • FORUM: What's happening to the music venues in the West End?
    Published: 12 November, 2010 • LAMENTING the loss of the West End’s musical heritage, Henry Scott-Irvine is keen to stop the rot fuelled by the demolition of iconic venues and the dreaded...
  • Those on modest incomes will be driven out of their homes
    Published: 11 November, 2010 IN his Comprehensive Spending Review statement, George Osborne announced the ConDem’s plans to end security of tenure for social tenants.  New tenants will be...
  • FORUM: Baroness Kennedy pays tribute to Michael Foot
    Published: 11 November, 2010 Baroness Kennedy pays tribute to her friend and former party leader Michael Foot I FIRST met Michael on Hampstead Heath.  Of course I thought I knew him anyway....
  • School pupils’ smoking is intolerable
    Published: 11 November, 2010 • WE, the residents of Montpelier Grove, have written before about smoking by schoolchildren. At half-term what joy it was to go into the park, without having to...
  • Too much
    Published: 11 November, 2010 • LABOUR Camden are all defensive about their political bus shelter ads but “they only cost about £1,300” they declare, “it’s such a...
  • Loss of FE college will damage the area
    Published: 11 November, 2010 • WE are writing to express our dismay and disappointment at the decision of the College of North West London’s decision to sell off the Kilburn campus on...