Latest Letters

  • Poorer areas need libraries
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • FURTHER to the letter from Gerald Holm (Decision time for the future of libraries, March 31), Belsize Library may not have many magazines to read in comparison with...
  • Noisy foretaste of HS2 things to come?
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • LATELY at weekends this year up till March 21, Network Rail has been working overnight on the railway at their access point in Gloucester Avenue by the canal bridge...
  • Heath and bikes don’t mix
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • I WISH to reply to the letter from the anonymous “doctor dealing with emergencies at the Royal Free” (Beware the bunker mentality of the older killjoys on...
  • Many friends of Netherwood
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • AS the co-ordinator of the Save Netherwood Day Centre Campaign I would like to say a huge thank you to all those who supported us in our fight to keep this superb...
  • Losing Terry puts value of the Irish Centre at risk
    Published: 7 April, 2011 • HERE are two definitions from Chambers’ Dictionary: “cost” is what would have to be outlaid to obtain anything. “value” is the intrinsic...
  • CNJ COMMENT - Safe to say, hospital is being handed to private sector
    Published: 7 April, 2011 PIECE by piece, one of our foremost NHS institutions is being dismantled. The Royal Free Hospital has announced the loss of 450 posts. About one tenth of the workforce...
  • FORUM: A plan of action for the ‘alternative’
    Published: 7 April, 2011 by NATALIE BENNETT Many of the rich made money from the overheated boom that helped cause the crisis – now they should help fix the mess THERE were moments on the...
  • FORUM: Illtyd harrington: ‘as i please’
    Published: 7 April, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON I MET a friend named Ben the other day who seemed in the throes of that obscure medical condition “spontaneous self-combustion”.  This...
  • FORUM: If it’s good enough for Boris...
    Published: 1 April, 2011 by MURAD QURESHI  IN one of his own recent newspaper columns, Boris Johnson set out his case against the Alternative Vote system (AV), decrying it as a “...
  • Assault on heritage
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • WE would like to wish the residents of the Beaux Arts building every success in fighting off another attempt at architectural vandalism (Much-loved architectural gem...
  • Branded as a landlord
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • LAST week’s excellent letters from PJ Leamy and Richard Rosser genuinely voiced the opinion of most residents, and could not have come at a more opportune time...
  • Room for agreement
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • THERE seems to be some confusion as to the situation between Islington Council and Homes for Islington (HfI). Neither HfI nor the council has decided to take any...
  • How long will Margery Street estate’s host of golden daffodils survive?
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • AT present the Margery Street estate in Clerkenwell has a pleasant golden glow from the mass of daffodils planted by tenants. At a site meeting with contractors...
  • At 80, this patient deserves sympathy not parking fines
    Published: 1st April, 2011 • ENVIRONMENT chief Councillor Paul Smith claims Islington Council is sympathetic to the personal circumstances of people issued with parking tickets outside...
  • FORUM: You thought our A&E was safe? Just wait until the NHS shake-up arrives
    Coalition government reforms will unleash the forces of competition on the NHS , warns Emily Thornberry. The results will change the face of healthcare Published: 1st April, 2011 THE Tory-Lib Dem...