Latest Letters

  • Why would the average voter back extremists?
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • I WAS taken aback by Jonathan Glanz’s letter asserting that voting in favour of AV will threaten the gay community in Soho (and presumably elsewhere) as “...
  • Office closure will damage mail service
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • ROYAL Mail are planning to close the Rathbone Place Delivery Office which covers the postcodes for W1,WC1 and WC2.  The office has been open since 1964 and was...
  • Questions about HS2
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • THE route of the proposed HS2 high-speed rail link from London to Birmingham will go under houses south of Kilburn Lane in Queen’s Park ward and close to...
  • London life
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • EVERY day the people who live in Holborn, Bloomsbury, Finsbury are swamped by outsiders.  Ex-mayor Ken Livingstone and now Boris Johnson, give rat-runners...
  • Back to basics for Irish centre
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • THE Irish Centre was paid for by the Irish immigrants, some of whom got help from it when they came to England.  And it was donations from the Irish, some of...
  • The trials and tribulations of London life
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • THE architect Richard Rogers once wrote: “In Amsterdam there is a clear domain for cycles as there is for cars; we are very backward in that respect.” It...
  • Insensitive municipal hubris
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • WE should all be grateful to Theo Blackwell for his munificence in proposing to give us smart new council offices in the King’s Cross development area (Letters...
  • Lessons from bike tragedies
      Published: 21 April, 2011 • READING about Paula Jurek, (New Journal, April 14), yet another cyclist and a lovely young woman whose life was so tragically ended on the road by a lorry, it...
  • Recent stabbings paint a false picture of our areas
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • WE would like to address residents’ concerns and alarmist headlines about recent stabbing incidents in Haverstock ward and also about public perceptions with...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Taxing questions on the politics of civil disobedience
    Published: 21 April, 2011 ALMOST inevitably – and quite sadly – the authorities, the Met police and London University, seem bent on vigorously pursuing both the students who occupied a...
  • FORUM: Who cares about local journalism?
    Published: 21 April, 2011 by JON SLATTERY This week striking journalists held a mock funeral for their newspapers in north London, as the future of the local press is again called into...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 21 April, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON If you get to Heaven before I do just drill a hole and pull me through  IT is time to raise a glass or better still crack an Easter egg. Like...
  • Camden duo set for Canadian mountie adventure - Met Police plan Mackenzie River canoe expedition
    Published: 21 April 2011 by JAMIE WELHAM BLUE lights and wailing sirens take them to housing estates, crack dens and rowdy nightclubs. But two Camden police officers are swapping the mean streets for...
  • No waste
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • NOW, more than ever, Camden Council has to ensure that any money we spend goes to those services that people most need.  We have to ensure that money is not...
  • Cracks
    Published: 21 April, 2011 • THE cracks are appearing in the new Labour administration, the party is in complete meltdown and disarray. On April 15 a small majority of Labour councillors voted in...