Latest Letters

  • • I READ with great interest, the obituary about Paul Yogi Mayer.  He obviously had an incredible life, and was definitely an incredible man. I think it’s a tragic shame, that, as a...
  • • I WAS shocked by Eugenie Matthias’s letter about the “persecution” by Camden Council of the Food for All project (Stop harassing good folk who care for the homeless, July 7...
  • • I’M a disabled woman who suffers from bowel problems.  On a recent visit to the shops in Queen’s Crescent, Kentish Town, I suddenly needed to use the toilet. I went into the...
  • WE can expect some interesting discussions  as political candidates line up to explain what they can do for St Peter’s ward. Next month’s by-election will be unique because this ward...
  • DAVID Cameron was advised not to treat teachers like miners.  However, it was the teachers who decided to behave like members of Arthur Scargill’s union. The rather sour-looking female who...
  • I WANT to tell readers about Islington Giving, a unique campaign to raise £3million over three years to fight poverty and create opportunity for residents.   It is finding new ways to...
  • FIGURES from the recently released Aphekon project show that 25 schools in Islington are near roads carrying 10,000 or more vehicles a day, a level leading European scientists to claim it could be...
  • BRAVO to all the young people and children who took part in the London Youth Games (Celebrating Islington’s stars at the London Youth Games, July 8). What’s more, parents and trainers...
  • WHY aren’t people shopping – even in the sales? It’s because most of the clothes are shocking. The garments leave us semi-naked while women’s shoes are so high very few people...
  • I WAS just too late to get the more “generous” of the inflation-proofed accounts available from the Post Office. The new one has a £15,000 limit.  About a week ago I went...
  • AN isolated young mum is undertaking her first training course, a teenage refugee has secured a carpentry apprenticeship and a withdrawn teen now has the confidence to fulfil her dream of being a...
  • THE government’s proposed benefit cuts are widely seen as extremely objectionable, since they would seriously hurt many already disadvantaged people in numerous ways.  Cutting housing...
  • I AM disappointed that Liberal Democrat councillor Terry Stacy is playing cheap party political games with the tragic murder of Andrew Jaipaul (Stabbing: curb gangs, July 8). He urges us to respond...
  • IT is said that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it. I still remember the “good old days”. When you needed a repair, you had to put aside a couple of days to call the...
  • • IT was astonishing to see the artist’s impression of the proposed mammoth-sized monument to Bomber Command in The Green Park.  The monument could not be expected to be self-effacing...