Latest Letters

  • Insurance!
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • LONDON firefighters are taking strike action as they face the sack if they don’t agree to change their contracts.  Firefighters are committed to a...
  • Londoners’ safety at risk
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • NEARLY 5,600 London firefighters are facing dismissal unless they sign new contracts with worse shift patterns and attacks on terms and conditions.  The London...
  • Farewell to Somerfield
    Published: 28 October, 2010 Today (Thursday) the familiar fascia on the shop-front of Somerfield’s has disappeared from our (Camden) High Street and has been replaced by the Co-op insignia,...
  • Decision is not financial
    Published: 28 October, 2010 You have featured the recent move of a service user to Northampton.  It would not be proper for me to comment on a specific case and I shall not do so. However, I can...
  • Release him!
    Published: 28 OCTOBER, 2010 • I SUPPORT Camden residents who urge medical authorities to release Tom Costello, a truly free spirit, from his incarceration in a privatised mental institution in...
  • Will the response to the spending review add up?
    Published: 28 October, 2010 • VERY soon Camden Council will unveil its response to the govern­ment’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). We do not know what the council will propose,...
  • We need the City Lit
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • THE City Lit, which has been providing adult education for many years, is under threat.  I have taken part in several of its courses and have found them to be...
  • The kindest of doctors
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • I WAS sad to read of the death of John Lee of Moorfields Eye Hospital (Obituary, October 15).  I had been a patient under Mr Lee’s guidance for the past...
  • A bad case of red tape
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • AS chairman of Redbrick Tenant Management Organisation in Old Street, I must highlight a housing case that screams out for natural justice.  Last January,...
  • Shame of empty beds
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • PRE-SPENDING review cuts are already beginning to hurt the most needy. I was horrified, when visiting a friend in Highgate Mental Health Centre, to find the ward in...
  • Enter here for free trip
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • I READ recently that this government is thinking of scrapping the Freedom Pass for the over-60s as a way of cutting costs.  Each day hundreds of people get on...
  • War record a sad failure
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • I WAS amazed at your article (Kofi Annan portrait unveiled at the UN, October 15) and the reference to  “a man who always tried to stop the world going...
  • Other ways to succeed
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • INDEED, I did see and pity the pseudo-intellectual David Starkey on Newsnight and found his comments as offensive and poorly informed as I did the letter from MJ in...
  • Roadworks: it’s been hell
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • WHEN I received a letter from Skanska saying work would be starting near my home, I phoned to ask about my disability bay and was told “arrangements would be...
  • Do we want housing run by a municipal dinosaur again?
    Published: 22 October, 2010 • THERE is a sudden clamour from politicians from both sides of the council chamber to return control of the housing stock to Islington Council.  While I make no...