Latest Letters

  • The bookshop owner who’s truly a local hero
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • I AM not surprised to hear that David Tobin returned money he found in a secondhand book he bought (Found: the lost £850 bookmark, July 29). Some years...
  • Blight and voids built up in Tory-Lib Dem years
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • IT would be amusing, if it was not such a desperately serious topic for the residents of Holly Lodge, to read in your columns of the hypocritical accusations of...
  • The anti-social behaviour laws give us all a chance
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • SPEAKING about reviewing the concept of Asbos, Home Secretary Theresa May argues that punishments should be “rehabilitative and restorative”, rather...
  • Attack on Freedom Pass is just age discrimination
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • WITH all the debate about doing away with the Freedom Pass (or at least severely curtailing it), I would like to ask what is going to be done about the carte...
  • CNJ COMMENT - The deafening sound of a U-turn on Whittington?
    Published: 5 August, 2010 THE Whittington Hospital saga appears to be entering the lower depths of politics. Naively or not, opponents of the proposal to close the A&E department must have...
  • FORUM: If you were the Chancellor, what would you do?
    Published: 5 August, 2010 BY JOHN MILLS • WHAT would you do if you were the Chancellor of the Exchequer? Clearly something has to be done about the financial deficit, which ran at 11 per...
  • Crude thinking about Shakespeare production?
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • TO follow up to my letter of three weeks ago, reporting the apparent censorship of Gonzalo’s “Utopian” speech in Act II, Scene 1 of The Tempest...
  • Access for the disabled has been getting worse
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • I AM a full-time wheelchair user, and have lived in Camden for five years and visiting since the early 1980s. In the last few years I have seen the provision of...
  • Managing health care
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • WHAT is the point in delivering 90 per cent of mental health care in the community (Terror, fear and grief: the story of mental health care, July 29) when the outcome...
  • How rents are set...
    Published: 5th August, 2010 • CONTRARY to the letter (Tenants can’t afford this, July 22) Origin Housing is not “setting a rent rise of £20 per week for all secure tenants...
  • Hypocrites
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • I’M shocked that Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Naylor can summon up the audacity to talk about Labour “going back on their manifesto commitments...
  • We didn’t vote Labour for council housing sell-offs
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • WE didn’t vote Labour in the local elections for them to go on selling off council housing – but to stop it. But now, Holly Lodge appears to be the...
  • Beware of lasting damage to our health service
    Published: 5 August, 2010 • GRADUALLY the details about the proposed redesign of our health service are emerging. Dr Jacky Davis’s comments (Forum, July 15), give further cause for...
  • Let’s target inequality wherever it exists
    Published: 30 July, 2010 • I AM a commissioner on the Islington Fairness Commission and a telephone engineer with a trade union background. Can I respectfully ask James Bainbridge to reconsider...
  • Message from a sick man
    Published: 30 July, 2010 • AS I held my corner of the “Save Finsbury Health Centre” banner outside NHS Islington offices this morning, a young man stopped to tell me he was too...