Latest Letters

  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • I WAS interested to see the article about Cyril Joad (John Gulliver, February 17), the philosopher and broadcaster who was hounded out of public life in the 1940s for...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 HOW to make enemies and lose old friends! It is hard to believe that the Labour leadership were not aware that their employees, the officials, intended to hound the People...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 POLITICS is at its best when parties reach a consensus of both opinion and feeling. It seems as if Labour in Camden is in breach of this cardinal principle. What else can...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 The planned new high-speed rail link from Euston to Birmingham will cost billions and simply makes no sense  MUCH as Phillip Hammond would like to be at the...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • THE NW3 Good Neighbour Scheme, run by Age Concern Camden, is a lifeline to many older people. I can’t imagine it costs very much to run as all the Good...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 A united front must challenge this injustice    FIRST a lesson from history. On Sunday June 21, 1941, Hitler sealed his fate by taking on Joe Stalin. Later that day...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • I VISIT West Hampstead, the Heath and other libraries. I like them all and I want them to live. I never leave a library feeling disappointed. I always find what I want...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • WHEN we look at the scale and range of service cuts in Camden it is difficult to argue that the library service should be immune. What is proposed for the library...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • WE’RE told the council may have to repay £10million in overpaid charges to people who paid parking fines by credit card.    You report that the...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • IN 2004, we conducted research into the impact of short-term housing and its effect on individuals’ willingness to engage with the community. We found that...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • COUNCILLOR Don Williams claims that 25 per cent of library funding is being cut over the next three years whereas the overall reduction in government funding is 10 per...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • AS parents of primary school-age boys, we have watched the fortunes of William Ellis School with interest over the past few years. This highly respected school has had...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • CASH-strapped Camden is spending money on a library consultation that is wide open to fraud and thus also open to legal challenge. As anyone who uses the online form...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • IT is all Eric Pickles’ fault, according to Councillor Theo Blackwell (February 24). It is Pickles who is closing Camden’s day centres, play centres and...
  • Published: 3 March, 2011 • WHAT a weird and wonderful world Cllr Nasim Ali lives in (Resist Cameron’s ‘right’ revolution, February 24). One where you can cut services one day...