Latest Letters

  • Cutting off our lifeline
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • I AM a disabled pensioner attending the most organised and well attended Age Concern Great Croft centre in Cromer Street.  We have been told the horrific news...
  • Owner was at fault for dog death
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • I HAVE little sympathy for the owner of the dog which died in a frozen lake at Kenwood  highlighted in your story (Heroics in vain,  December 9). The...
  • Shamed by the state of our ‘premier’ shopping street
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • I HAVE been away a while, so on Monday I went towards Camden Town in search of something nice to show an overseas friend. I was ashamed.  We walked from the...
  • Don’t ghettoise children
    Published: 16 December, 2010 • WE must respond to the widespread resignation in the face of the proposed cuts to play services, exemplified by Labour councillor Heather Johnson, and her comment...
  • As cuts impact on young and old, which way Labour?
    Published: 16 December, 2010 THE Labour administration is reaching the crossroads. Following the govern­ment’s announcements on Monday time is running out for the majority Labour group. To...
  • Why do so many pupils miss out?
    Published: 10 December 2010 LABOUR councillors are calling on education secretary Michael Gove to launch an inquiry into Westminster City Council’s failure to find school places for over 360...
  • Green Park memorial to damage
    Published: 10 December 2010 • IT might be remembered by some un-PC lovers of London that it is a defining characteristic of Bomber Command to be indifferent to the damage they cause to great...
  • An honourable MP
    Published: 10th December, 2010 • WHEN some MPs are reportedly still claiming outra­geous expenses, I noted that Jeremy Corbyn’s claim between May and November came to well under a...
  • Soldiers, not traitors
    Published: 10th December, 2010 • PATRICK Burke seems to think it unremarkable that “the British” would use chemical weapons on Irish people (Snubbed as traitors, November 25). Most...
  • Expenses go on view
    Published: 10th December, 2010 • JUSTINE Gordon-Smith characterises Homes for Islington’s board as one “resistant to transparency” on the payment of allowances for its resident...
  • Let’s lose more beds
    Published: 12th December, 2010 • WHO are these people who keep opposing the closure of beds in mental hospitals (Has no one the courage to oppose these health cuts? November 5)? They have...
  • Irony is insufficient
    Published: 10 December 2010 TO publicise Silent Night Upstairs at the Garage (advertisement in Review, November 26) with a bare-breasted, bound and gagged, drugged-up woman with a foot on her...
  • Scrap fees
    Published: 10 December 2010 • I HAD free higher education, a grant, and social security over the summer in the late 1970s and don’t begrudge them to today’s students.  Scrap...
  • Now it’s up to tenants
    Published: 10th December, 2010 • AT the last full council meeting there was much banter as to whose mistakes have led to the cuts. The reality is that bankers were only acting as company law...
  • Student debt
    Published: 10 December 2010 • CONCERNING the unnecessary and unfair plans to treble tuition fees, I hope there was a good turn-out of MPs voting against these. Students will be forced to choose...