Latest Letters

  • Make rioters pay reparations
    Published: 18 August, 2011 • BOMBED Bermondsey in 1947, meant that the young, mainly lived in back-to-back homes or flats full of large families. I lived in two rooms – three floors up...
  • Young with little to lose
    Published: 18 August, 2011 • AS a long-standing Spurs supporter I have read Richard Osley’s inveterate Arsenal column with scorn for a long time. However, he has now become respectable...
  • An Ode to London Town
    Published: 18 August, 2011 The shimmering blue lights illuminate the old red bricked building’s façade. London streets are burning A miserable smoke. The wooden doors, The glass...
  • Time to address grievances
    Published: 18 August, 2011 • CAMDEN BME Alliance condemns the violence and looting that took place in Camden, across London and nationally last week.   One of the positive outcomes of...
  • Plate glass alienation
    Published: 18 August, 2011 • THE complaint used to be about the neo-Stalinist school of “brutalist architecture”. Will Camden’s development and planning control officials...
  • London Riots – A youthful underclass
    Published: August 11, 2011 CHALK Farm became one more of some unlikely places to be targeted by violent street protesters in the last few days. It was also the scene of yet one more of those...
  • London Riots – Fear and failure with rioting
    Published: August 11, 2011 AS someone who has worked with young people all my life, like everyone else I am struggling to make sense of the events of the last four days. Yet, sad to say, we have been...
  • London Riots – Disorder is unacceptable
    Published: August 11, 2011 THE present outbreak of civil disorder is unacceptable. Those responsible for the arson and looting should, when brought to justice, receive realistic jail sentences. The...
  • Chronic underfunding has let down the vulnerable
    Published: August 11, 2011 ANY of us at any time in our lives might need social care, and the recent report of the Commission on Funding of Care and Support brought home an uncomfortable truth....
  • After the annexe, people need a say on what could be built
    Published: August 11, 2011 WHAT I find worrying about the council’s sell-off of the Town Hall annexe building is that they are refusing to let local people have a say in what replaces it (New...
  • London Riots – Weakness of authority
    Published: August 11, 2011 SITTING here in the aftermath of the Camden riot it is the perfect opportunity to comment on what’s been happening across London. Why do the media keep asking why...
  • London Riots – Thanks to police
    Published: August 11, 2011 CAMDEN residents and businesses totally condemn the acts of the mindless vandals and criminals who attacked our community on Monday.  These individuals account for a...
  • Rubbish piling up in the borough
    Published: August 11, 2011 THE problem of increased rubbish on our streets since Camden decided to reduce its domestic rubbish collection to some of its properties is an issue which needs to be...
  • We need to take the long view to mend broken Britain
    Published: August 11, 2011 EDITOR'S COMMENT OUR governments don’t “Do God”, as Alastair Campbell would say, but they certainly worship at the shrine of  “short-...
  • Is mayhem the sign of things to come?
    Author and social commentator Owen Jones says we must try to understand underlying reasons for the riots or there will be no reason why they will not happen again Published: August 11, 2011 FOR...