Latest Letters

  • Editor's Comment – Only the elite get fat-cat public sector pensions
    Published: 17th March, 2011 EDITOR'S COMMENT FAT cats can be found everywhere. Not only in the City, but also at the executive level of local authorities. It depends how the words “fat cats...
  • Your life in their hands!
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • I KNOW the health service is slowly being privatised.  Four years ago I went to sit on a forum for health. Its main aim, I discovered very quickly, was to help...
  • A classic shopping experience
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • THE world seems to be going to hell in a hand-basket but I take comfort in the ongoing presence in Kentish Town of Blustons. We may have two chain coffee shops and...
  • At risk
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • IN your article (Fears suicide attempts by women are being ignored, March 10) clinical psychologist Judy Leibowitz said: “We need to look much more closely at...
  • Graffiti goes
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • THAT ridiculous and illegal large example of graffiti on the roof of Lulworth flats, in Camden Town, has gone and I write to thank the council for their positive...
  • Market value…
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • CAMDEN Market brings millions of pounds and millions of people to the area.  Liz Jellinek (The way we were… March 10) is right to point out that those...
  • Join us for history talks
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • WE were delighted to see your coverage of our talk on researching trade union history and the TUC library collections on March 16 (Talk on history of union movement...
  • Our bingo hall win
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • RESIDENTS of Archway, and visitors, will be familiar with the running sore that is 31-35 Junction Road. Nos 31-33 used to be a lovely homeware shop, Emily’s...
  • Fare’s fair? Hardly
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • IT is to be hoped Boris Johnson reads this paper (he lives in Islington) and can give the answer to anyone who has had the same experience as me. Last month I was...
  • Parking fee rise too big
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • THE Labour Party took Islington Council from the previous administration on the grounds of contrasting its transparent, honourable intentions with those of its Lib...
  • The case for cash chop
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • THE cuts have required loss of funding for many worthy organisations. It seems highly questionable why Islington Borough User Group (iBUG), which has regularly been...
  • Escaping loan sharks
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • READERS may be interested to know that MPs Emily Thornberry and Jeremy Corbyn are recent new members of Islington and City Credit Union. Volunteers and staff are...
  • How axe will fall
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • YOU write: “That £52m – 16 per cent of the £322m budget for the year – is just the beginning for Islington, however. Another three...
  • It’s time to ban kettling
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • I PLAN to go to the community rally against the cuts in Highbury Fields and the TUC demonstration on March  26, but I wonder how the “chilling effect...
  • Homes would overshadow Bunhill Fields Cemetery, last resting place of writers
    Published: 11th March, 2011 • THERE has been widespread coverage of the announcement of the addition of Bunhill Fields Cemetery, the pre-eminent graveyard for nonconformists in England, to the...