Latest Letters

  • The fox and the sheep
    • I CAN’T say I have any sympathy for Met Chief Sir Paul Stephenson, who quit over the phone hacking scandal.  He should have gone at the time his force failed to protect Prince...
  • FORUM: Rupert Murdoch, he was a real card!
    I­AN Cutler made his living as a wedding photographer after leaving Holloway School aged 15 in 1959. He got his big break at the News of the World after editors noticed his eye for a story. He...
  • Jailed graffiti artist 'Tox' may be feted for his work one day
    • IT is sad news that the Camden graffiti artist Daniel Halpin, aka Tox, has been jailed for 27 months.  In sentencing him, Judge Peter Clarke said “There is nothing artistic about...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    YOU may well ask: are we safe in our beds? Who will catch the thieves or silence the slanderers and the blackmailers? All characteristics very familiar in the modern Scotland Yard. The lights are not...
  • Square’s new traffic system is even more dangerous for cyclists
    • AFTER a year of disruption, the new traffic system around Russell Square has finally been revealed, and it is more unsafe for cyclists than it was.  Southbound traffic on the east side of...
  • Intelligent
    • I THOUGHT editor Eric Gordon’s piece on the demise of the News of the World was excellent.   I liked his linking it  to the demise of the Camden Gazette and the loss of these...
  • Still time to save Talacre sports complex from strangulation
    • I WONDER if the developer and his backers watched the council meeting on June 20 when the Dalby Street, Talacre development was discussed or read recent letters (Safety would mean reducing...
  • Rubbish is left behind
    • WHEN I moved into my council flat Camden ran and employed the staff for rubbish collection with an acceptable service. Subsequently, the private company Veolia took over. Their gung-ho...
  • Pensions guarantee
    • I WRITE as chair of Camden’s pension sub-committee to correct your article (Town Hall staff fear for pension money ploughed into Sky, July 14).  I must allay the fears you seek to...
  • Inhumane behaviour
    • I WAS shocked by Eugenie Matthias’s letter about the “persecution” by Camden Council of the Food for All project (Stop harassing good folk who care for the homeless, July 7...
  • Decisions on community centre worthy of a proper debate
    • AT the St Pancras Community Association annual meeting on Tuesday, it was clear that your report (GP could be forced to move by community centre plans, July 14), about local concerns over...
  • London Olympics of 1948
    • WHEN I read about the farcical situation over Olympic tickets, it reminds me of my own experience in 1948 – the last time the UK hosted the games. My husband Stephen and I had been...
  • Ill-informed on the problem of school places
    In response to last week’s Comment “Still not enough school places, so our children suffer” the council’s Finance Chief Cllr Theo Blackwell sent the following letter to Labour...
  • Federation to lose out?
    • CAMDEN has just published a report on its plans for affordable housing.  I am pleased to see some of these proposals for example to reduce the period of council homes being left vacant...
  • We need more information about football pitches
    • AS a parent and chair of a local tenants’ and residents’ association, I would like to respond to the debate about the future and management arrangements of the Malden Road football...