Latest Letters

  • What about fines when our recycling goes uncollected?
    Published: 18th March, 2011 • IT was with interest that I saw a poster on a bus stop informing me that as from April 4 Islington will introduce compulsory recycling for households (although for...
  • Bemerton estate demolition means leaving the place we love
    Published: 18th March, 2011 • ISLINGTON Council’s recent plan to demolish the entire Bemerton estate as part of a complete redevelopment has caused a huge stir among leaseholders (...
  • Who’ll pay?
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • AMONG all the letters about these cuts there have been many people asserting how vital their individual service of choice is but there has not been one person who...
  • Complacent bigotry
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • SO Councillor Adam Harrison writes “…as a country we remain very tolerant, including tolerating those who believe gay people should not yet receive the...
  • Robbed at the bank
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • ON Saturday morning while checking my mini-statement at the till in the Halifax in Camden Town, a tall slim young man tapped me on the shoulder and pointed to a...
  • Danger and rudeness of mobile phone users
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • WHEN getting on a bus in Camden Town, I saw a young woman waiting in the queue being pushed onto a busy road by a man in the queue whose only concern appeared to be...
  • Screaming kids: the good old days?
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • THANK you for reporting my library talk (They would put William on Ritalin today, March 10).   As you know, the audience and I compared the behaviour of...
  • Not the site for war memorial
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • ON the subject of the proposed war memorial in Mornington Crescent, (New Journal, March 10) we have had feedback from some of our members concerning the planning...
  • Historic society in search of a photographic memory or two
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • YOUR article about the photographic history of Primrose Hill, was very interesting (Nostalgic peek at a world long gone, March 3).  I believe the...
  • Fight for public libraries and paid staff
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • UNISON library workers also have concerns about the current consultation.  While we are aware that the options being put forward are within the constraints of...
  • Why we must say no to HS2
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • INSPIRED by your coverage (‘We’re all going in same direction to oppose HS2’, March 3), I obtained and read the official consultation document...
  • Private treatment makes no sense to most of us
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • NHS private treatment “makes sense”, says Dominic Dodd, chairman of the Royal Free (New Journal, March 10).  What “sense” was he...
  • Underestimating Pickles’ cuts
    Published: 17th March, 2011 • DON Williams’s piece (Forum, March 10) was as astonishing as when he moved the Tories’ alternative budget at the council meeting on February 28. ...
  • Illtyd Harrington – Fruits of years of struggle are being trampled upon
    Published: 17th March, 2011 ILLTYD HARINGTON: 'AS I PLEASE' WE are in a bleak midwinter of reaction. A harsh biting wind is cutting through us. We once believed in  the future and a great wave...
  • FORUM – Work longer, pay more, get less…
    In the wake of the Hutton report, workers facing retirement on pensions below £8,000 a year after a quarter century’s service are heartily sick of pensions hypocrisy, argues...