Latest Letters

  • Bad advice from professionals
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • CAMDEN councillors are to be congratulated on their rejection of the developers’ plan to rebuild the Chappelow house in Downshire Hill with a swimming pool...
  • Arboreal verse (continued)
    Published: 13 May, 2010 I THINK that I shall never see A billboard lovelier than a tree And if that billboard doesn’t fall I’ll never see that tree at all OGDEN NASH. (see letters...
  • Missing the bee by Mr P
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • CAMDEN Council got it wrong again! They creep around in the early morning when most people are still sleeping to paint over (Letters, May 6) a wonderful piece of art...
  • Deprived areas losing out
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • AT last attention has been drawn to the fact that Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors have been “looking too closely over their shoulder at their...
  • Cramming children into an anthill is a nightmare
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • YOUR Comment (Politicians’ tough choices as they size up classrooms, May 6) and article on the proposed expansion of St Paul’s CofE Primary accurately and...
  • A victory for democracy heralds new political era
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • THURSDAY May 6 was a victory for democracy. The long campaign started with deep-rooted cynicism in the political process. It ended with record numbers voting. In...
  • Let’s live and let live with our beautiful urban foxes
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • IN response to the letter demanding the extermination of our fox population, I was so appalled at the programme a few years ago showing a neighbouring borough spending...
  • CNJ Comment - Labour could fail unless they learn a powerful lesson
    Published: 13 May, 2010 THIS week a tale of two streets has been played out. In Judd Street, Euston, the defeated members of the council’s Tory-Lib Dem coalition left the Town Hall on Monday....
  • Vote No intimidation!
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • A SOUR note for me was the pot of red paint thrown over my car on election night, presumably because of the Labour banner on the front of my house. I am grateful...
  • To pastures new
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • I READ John Gulliver’s article about Stanley Johnson (April 29) with interest. I bought “The Rocking Horse House” from Stanley almost three years ago...
  • Cosmetics!
      • HERE are two images of the proposed World Peace Garden to be built on the railway embankment opposite the Magdala public house. The first image (top) shows Jonathan Bergman’s...
  • An exciting opportunity
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • WE congratulate those newly elected to Camden Council. Labour’s return opens up an exciting opportunity for everyone in Camden to work together to put a...
  • Fair’s fair
    Published: 13, May, 2010 • BOTH the general and the local elections show yet again how the seats won by each party do not fairly reflect the votes for each party, because we still use the...
  • Many issues
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • THERE were many issues inadequately debated in the general election campaign: greenhouse gas emissions, peak oil, and the state of Britain and the world’s...
  • Lessons?
    Published: 13 May, 2010 • NOW that Labour will form the new council, let us hope that they have learned the lesson of 2006 – ignore electors’ concerns and suffer the consequences:...