Latest Letters

  • Children’s services hit, but finance dept gets off lightly
    Published: 10th December, 2010 • THERE must be something terribly wrong, if not criminally irresponsible as well as supremely incompetent, when a council, of whatever hue, in one of the most...
  • We showed true grit
    Published: 12th December, 2010 • WE are always ready to blame councils which are not ready for snow.  I cannot speak for the whole borough, but as I walked around Islington on the school...
  • Southern comfort
    Published: 12th December, 2010 • IT had seemed like turkeys voting for Christmas (Did the high earners sink merger deal? December 3). The mandarins (male top officials) and satsumas (female...
  • Drivers fill a cash gap
    Published: 12th December, 2010 • THE time-honoured phrase, “They would say that, wouldn’t they?”, springs to mind when Islington Council gives its reasons for the proposed...
  • Society had rescued St Anne’s
    Published: 10 December 2010 • I HAVE lived in Soho for 18 years and I am devastated that David Gilmore, the Rector of St Anne’s, has sought to evict the Soho Society from the tower room of...
  • Will recycling fines turn neighbours into snitches?
    Published: 12th December, 2010 • YET another unenforceable bye-law (£110 fine if you fail to recycle your waste, November 19). Does Islington Council ever think things through? What about...
  • Times are hard but estate still needs its social centre
    Published: 12th December, 2010 • ISLINGTON Council wants to close the community rooms at the Highbury estate and on other estates. We all know that cuts are being imposed by the Coalition...
  • Students will graduate to a life crippled with debts
    Published: 12th December, 2010 • THE government is cutting money for university teaching by 80 per cent, much more than other services, and is making graduates pay the whole cost of most degrees...
  • Ludicrous number of bus routes in Oxford Street
    Published: 10 December 2010 • THE letter you printed from Richard Dickinson, chief executive of the New West End Company, (Cut the number of buses, November 26) makes very interesting reading...
  • Read all about it… in a quarterly!
    Published: 9 December, 2010 • CAMDEN’S Labour cabinet last week agonised long and hard before agreeing an £80+ million package of cuts.   Just a few minutes later, however, they...
  • Students lead battle in the crisis
    Published: 9 December, 2010 • BRAVO to the students who have turned out in droves over the weeks to protest the cuts to higher and further education.  Their demonstrations represent the...
  • School – it’s not snobbery
    Published: 9 December, 2010 • HEATHER Johnson, Camden’s cabinet member for schools’ insistence that the shortage of primary school places in the north-west of Camden is going to be...
  • New age of campaigns
    Published: 9 December, 2010 • THE tough times that students and others are likely to face over the next few years leaves little to be happy about.  However, it is good news and very...
  • Latch-key kids again!
    Published: 9 December, 2010 • I WRITE to express dismay at Camden’s proposals to all but eradicate the play service with cuts amounting to nearly 80 per cent of the current budget by 2013/...
  • A future for St Luke’s
    Published: 9 December, 2010 • THANKS for your report (Revealed: the mental health beds   being secretly closed, December 2). You referred to my remarks about St Luke’s psychiatric...