Latest Letters

  • Why I despair at the state of our pothole-filled roads
      Published: 25 February, 2011 • I WRITE in despair about the parlous state of roads in Islington, particularly in the Hillmarton Conservation Area.  I understand the bad weather we...
  • Budget too important to be decided behind locked door
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • REPRESENTATIVES from Islington Green Party, together with residents, attended the council meeting last Thursday night to ask questions (Protesters clash with cops...
  • FORUM: Taxing question of banks’ billions
    Published: 25 February, 2011 by SARA AYECH At the weekend anti-cuts campaigners took their protest – and children – to the frontline of Barclays high street bank branches. SATURDAY...
  • Months of noise and filth
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • THE last government, under pressure, organised some timid investment in council housing to alleviate the effects of the banking crash. At John Aird Court,...
  • Help on 46
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • LOSING a bus pass is always a nerve-wracking experience, even more so, when the wallet that it is in, contains other important cards.  I would really like to...
  • Mind games
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • WHAT was “Freud’s legacy’’(Review, February 18)?  He said of JS Mill: “He was perhaps the man of the 19th century who best...
  • Cuts hurt
    Published: 25 February, 2011 • MELVYN Caplan, the Conservative cabinet member for finance, has been recorded on the ITN news saying there will be no significant cuts to front-line services and...
  • Attacking Electric Proms
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • IT is deeply regrettable that the BBC has scrapped the Electric Proms.  They have been excellent, and I’ve been lucky enough to see a few including The...
  • With higher rents, how many families will be asked to leave?
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • WITH Local Housing Allowance claims made from April 2011: capped rates will apply immediately. Settled Camden families whose tenancies, in privately rented...
  • Labour has no right to veto benefits of schools changes
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • MANY Labour Party activists will say they’ve been fighting almost 40 years for a new secondary school south of Euston Road.  Yet nothing happened up to...
  • Investing in education
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • IT’S all very well for MP Glenda Jackson to criticise the Education Bill as “monstrous,” but she forgets what families want: a good local...
  • Is C-word offensive?
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • IS it just me who finds the YouTube video that Samantha Cameron made after visiting the Surma Centre extremely patronising?  She mentions the word “...
  • Talk to him!
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • I AM astonished by the Conservatives’ shameless attempt to blame local councils for the cuts to funding.  In your February 17 article you say that there...
  • Celebrities!
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • I WAS shocked to read the news item about Samantha Cameron (February 17).  As usual we have lots of politicians that grace our borough for votes and Mrs...
  • No freedom
    Published: 24 February, 2011 • I UNDERSTAND that the Freedom Pass for mentally disabled people is to be withdrawn by Camden.  I wonder if the “number-crunchers” at the Town Hall...