Latest Letters

  • End health centre saga
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • THE Tribune’s positive spin on the minister’s words about Finsbury Health Centre made for a charming read, but also made it seem that the centre campaign is...
  • Homes in need of care
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • WHEN One Housing Group took control of Patchwork Community Housing Association in 2005, it said there would be little change (Fury over ‘unwanted’ care home...
  • Football’s academies
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • SO let the real sport begin. What we football fans are truly good at are blame games combined with emotional bloodletting. The truth is that we fail to invest in...
  • Take test or give up car
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • MARY Cosh has now enlisted the support of MP Emily Thornberry in her campaign to avoid a driving test (MP calls for U-turn on driving re-sit, June 25). But surely her...
  • Picnicking hordes who can’t be bothered to clear up mess
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • HIGHBURY Fields is renowned as the largest open space in Islington, an amenity to be enjoyed by all during the summer months. Now that the latest heatwave is upon...
  • Now let’s cut salaries of 21 members of £100,000 club
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • CONGRATULATIONS to council leader Councillor Catherine West for saying she will cut £50,000 off the salary of the next chief executive’s income (Salary...
  • Little excitement dealing with mental illness?
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • I WAS so surprised by your theatre critic’s rev­iew of Through a Glass Darkly at the Almeida Theatre that I wonder whether we saw the same production (...
  • Towards the Big Society
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • AS Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne announces numerous cost-cutting measures in his Budget, the economic environment poses huge challenges for charities and...
  • Fly decision
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • THE ban on flyers is totalitarian and indefensible (June 25 front page). A Conservative council should approve of free enterprise like this rather than trying to...
  • Cuts crisis can be parked right at the Tories’ door
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • WESTMINSTER Conservatives plan to slash £60million from the council’s budget over the next three years in order to fill the £20million-a-year...
  • Forum - Prepare for a perfect storm - Labour MP Karen Buck says housing benefit cuts will devastate families
    Published: 2 July, 2010 by KAREN BUCK To understand the world we live in, we must understand a little of its history.  The history of London is not just about kings and queens, the Great...
  • Long-term cost of cuts
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • ISLINGTON Law Centre works with some of the most disadvantaged people in the borough and it was with a sense of dismay that we learnt of the welfare benefit cuts in...
  • Concerns remain
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • IN response to Councillor Joe Caluori’s letter (June 25), I want to make it clear I do not “fully support” Labour’s Fairness Commission yet...
  • Rail’s bad vibrations
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • THOSE who claim that Primrose Hill residents would be unable to hear trains running at 100mph-plus just 20 metres below their homes are talking nonsense. I have...
  • Classrooms too small
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • I WAS told last year by the St Aloysius head that it was to be a state-of-the-art school, but now I know it’s not. The teaching is second to none. My son is in...