Latest Letters

  • A failure of commitment to LGBT community
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • I WRITE to voice my concern and dismay, and that of the 70 plus Camden residents who are members of Age Concern Camden’s Opening Doors Central London older...
  • Irreplaceable treasure from my stolen purse
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • NO good deed goes unpunished... I was on my way to the British Heart Foundation charity shop in Finchley Road to drop off a donation on Monday at about 2.15pm when...
  • Royally free?
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • SO now the genie is out of the bottle. It is official, the Free is really FREE if you’re a private patient. So do not pay and the taxpayer will pick up the...
  • Local classics
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • THANKS for the fun article with the suggestions for Camden music playlist (Mayor in search for musical ltalent, February 10).  His suggestions are great, but...
  • Offline and ignored
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • AFTER some 18 months, I have now finally given up writing polite/concise letters to the council and getting no response.  Question: “What do I have to...
  • Marxism today?
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • IN his review of Eric Hobsbawm’s How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism, Geoffrey Goodman writes that Hobsbawm believes the future for...
  • Problems of pizza restaurant permissions
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • ISN’T Emma Taylor being a bit unfair about the difficulty of healthy eating in Kentish Town?  There are many excellent inexpensive cafés which...
  • Play cuts time-bomb threat
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • WE write from The Winchester Project, Three Acres Play Project, Plot 10 Community Play Project and Talacre Play Centre, voluntary sector play providers in Camden,...
  • Big Society, good neighbours
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • THE ambiguities of the Big Society idea are becoming ever more self-evident.  Age Concern Camden runs two Good Neighbour Schemes supporting 60 frail,...
  • All this wringing of hands... just put up the council tax!
    Published: 17 February, 2011 • CAMDEN Council tell us it’s central government that’s forcing them to make all these cuts and yet they have decided to make no increase in council...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Cameron visit leaves the ‘Big Society’ muddled as ever
    Published: 17 February, 2011 DAVID Cameron must have thought that a quick visit on Monday to the People’s Supermarket was too good a chance to miss for his promotion of his Big Society idea. It...
  • FORUM: Back to ‘them and us’ education?
    Published: 17 February, 2011 by GLENDA JACKSON A central and monstrous aspect of the Education Bill is that it will reintroduce a form of selection in our schools, warns Hampstead &...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington - ‘As I Please’
    Published: 17 February, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON Forward to a spring and summer of discontent    I AM persuaded, as St Paul said, in those interminable letters to the bored citizens...
  • ‘Roamer’ parking will damage our quality of life
    Published: 11 February, 2011 • MUCH has been written about the proposed changes to parking in Islington – often from the viewpoint of holders of parking permits.  Indeed, Islington...
  • Day centres a real tonic
    Published: 11 February, 2011 • NHS Islington has gone to great expense in producing a leaflet, Psychological Support for Older People Living in Islington. One of the paragraphs in the leaflet...