Latest Letters

  • Standardise provision – from GP to hospital
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • AS a retired National Health Service employee, I have suggested to the government that even larger council and NHS services are needed. This is what’s...
  • Key areas
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • WE welcome the interim report of Camden’s Education Commission and, in general its preliminary findings. We also welcome the opportunity to discuss it at...
  • Abusing those with disabilities
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • READERS will be aware, through the persistent and well-considered actions of the Campaign Against Care Charges, of the demeaning and sometimes tragic consequences...
  • Preserve oil
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • I WOULD like to thank Transition Belsize for all their hard work with the “pop up farm” on Haverstock Hill on Saturday. I took my son and only...
  • Fragmentation of health service goes ahead
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • EVERYTHING went quiet over the summer, when the government surprisingly instituted its “listening pause” on the proposed National Health Service bill...
  • Poll point
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • LIBERAL Democrats did not win a seat from Labour in Surbiton on the same night as the Highgate by-election, as stated in Richard Osley’s report (New Journal...
  • Digging for vanity?
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • IN common with many of your readers I am very concerned about the proliferation of deep excavations as people choose to extend their houses underground by...
  • Misguided by omission
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • IN our Belsize Library I recently picked up a free booklet called The Little Guide to Life in Camden 2010 to 2011.  It was published by the London Borough...
  • Clinic ‘Horlicks’ a wake-up call
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • IT’S outrageous that the primary care trust decided behind closed doors that the glorious listed Stanley Buildings will not become a public facility (Clinic...
  • Blinded cleric must be housed
    Published: 29 September, 2011 • YOUR news of the cleric Sheikh Mohamed El Salamouny who was permanently blinded when assaulted by a thug while on a temporary contract with Islamic Cultural...
  • CNJ COMMENT: HS2: it’s all about who you know
    Published: 22 September, 2011 IT is claimed that it will be possible to run up to 18 trains per hour from Euston on a single two-way high speed line. Campaigners rightly ask whether this is possible...
  • Cone joker shone a light on the issue of how to stop war
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • AS an ex-Camden resident can I say how delighted I was to see that some joker had put a traffic cone on top of Richard Cobden’s statue. At least that is...
  • CNJ COMMENT: Patients in the crossfire of health centre deal that died
    Published: 22 September, 2011 WHO is to blame for the failure to open a health centre in the heart of the King's Cross Railway Lands It was a gilt-edged opportunity – and it has been...
  • Sexism is sexism
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • VALERIE Dunn doesn't make sense (Student who is suing LSE doesn’t understand sexism, Letters September 15). She says discrimination against men is...
  • Out of fashion
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • YET again another jolly-up with London Fashion Week, held in a corner of our neighbourhood Wakefield Street, a small area by any stretch of the imagination. We...