Latest Letters

  • Homes needed
    • POLITICIANS beware, the “gravy train” has hit the buffers and the casualties are, and will be, those who ignore the people’s call for change. Vacated homes are being sold...
  • A charter to counter greed
    Published: April 30, 2010 • IN the run-up to the general and local council elections, can I make a plea for a non-party alternative called The People’s Charter. Launched in March...
  • Letters to the Editor - One way to ensure better representation for Soho?
    Published: April 30, 2010 • DAVID Cameron’s “big society” is perhaps the most interesting idea to come out of the election campaign. He wants people to get involved to make a...
  • Who will wield axe?
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • LABOUR, Conservative, Liberal Democrat. Before the election – promises, promises, promises! After the election, we’re £167billion in the red....
  • Let’s hope general election gives turnout a big boost
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • WITH the council election only days away, one wonders if there is voting apathy and whether the proportion of voters will increase. In Clerkenwell, where Labour...
  • Think first, then vote
    • THE Lib Dems ran Islington for a decade. In their first term they decided to economise by removing funding from most of  the voluntary groups across the borough. One such group was Mencap...
  • Disabled fans are swamping parking bays on match days
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • NEARLY four years after the opening of Emirates Stadium, the parking situation on match days continues to be a fiasco, with residents’ parking bays swamped by...
  • Cuts will fuel profits
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • THE entire configuration of the NHS has changed, from spending our money on health care to suiting the needs of private health care companies. That is why there...
  • Defending animals
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • I WAS delighted to see the Tribune had the foresight to publish an article about Animals Count, who are standing in Islington South and Finsbury (Animals...
  • Young, but not stupid
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • IN response to Alice McAllister’s letter about Labour’s presence outside a school (Playground politics, April 23): children may be too young to vote...
  • Tenants’ champions
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • THANK goodness for people like PJ Leamy (At last, someone has said that homes body must go, April 23) and John Worker (April 23) who still have the time and courage...
  • Letters Extra - One area by King’s Cross that needs to be safer for pedestrians
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • THE letter from the King’s Cross Conservation Area Advisory Committee (Look again at use of King’s Cross lands, April 22) highlights the sad state of the...
  • Letters Extra - Civic society seeks a better planning process
    Published: 29 April, 2010 Open letter to the leaders of the main political parties involved in the May 6 Camden Council elections • YOU will be aware of the concerns expressed over the...
  • Election Forum - New era or the same old story?
    Published: 29 April, 2010 by TARIQ ALI • I won’t be voting – as a protest at how things have become. I may go out and spoil my ballot paper, but I’ll see how I feel in the...
  • Cracks
    Published: 29 April, 2010 • WE were very concerned, as were many residents who have been in touch with us, following your article on the possible blighting by cracks and leaks in walls and roofs...