Latest Letters

  • Cuts that make me cry
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • ON the subject of the closure of Great Croft Centre, needless to say, as a user of it, I was completely shocked that the persons in suits, sitting in Camden Town...
  • Bank error followed by a weekend of anxiety
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I PAID in three cheques at Santander bank in Camden High Street last Friday.  One was for £3,669. The branch was busy and I didn’t check my receipt...
  • Bedbugs? They’re not interested
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • YOUR correspondent Jessica Lotti (Letters, January 13) has, I am sure, everybody’s sympathy with her predicament over bedbugs.   I can add to her story...
  • This government’s divided
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I ATTENDED the excellent Camden United Against The Cuts meeting, which you reported in the New Journal on January 13.  I was inspired to go along by...
  • Labour’s people will be hit
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • COUNCILLOR Meric Apak’s letter (An emotive balancing act, January 13) suggesting a referendum to seek the views of the electorate now that the council is...
  • Councillors – take a pay cut and save the libraries
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THIS is a plea to all councillors to oppose fully any cuts to our library service. At a time when many young people will find it financially impossible to go to...
  • CNJ COMMENT- Why isn’t Ed banging heads together over services?
    Published: 20 January, 2011 COMMENTATORS say Labour made a colossal mistake in failing to challenge Tory arguments on the economy last year while they held a leadership contest. This gave David...
  • Titanic!
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • LONDON mayor Boris Johnson has said there is no risk for the UKCMRI superlab right by St Pancras, and yet the Titanic, with all its safety features, tried hard to...
  • Superlab shows power of lobbying
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THE Medical Research Council has a vast site at Mill Hill, in an open area with extremely low population density in comparison to the St Pancras site.   The...
  • I believe…
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • AS soon as the artwork appeared I smiled (Street artists: what do you believe? January 13). An otherwise nondescript block of flats suddenly became something more...
  • No sense to annexe plan
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I SUSPECT that it’s not often that I would find myself in wholehearted agreement with Lord Fink, co-treasurer to the Conservative Party, but I do on the...
  • FORUM: Inequality is the enemy between us
    Published: 20 January, 2011 by KATHRYN BUSBY People in more unequal societies have lower life expectancy, suffer more from mental illness, have higher rates of teenage births, obesity and...
  • Tenants’ five-day freeze
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • THE unacceptable breakdown of heating at the Brunswick Centre highlighted in the report (Tenants left freezing as heating breaks down, January 13) was all the worse...
  • Bus politics
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I MUST take issue with Ellin Stein (Letters, January 13) who supports the old Routemaster (RM) bus.  In real terms, it was far more expensive to run –...
  • Right policy?
    Published: 20 January, 2011 • I AM dismayed by Alan Templeton’s extraordinary suggestion that Camden’s Labour administration is “to the right” of Eric Pickles (Library...