Latest Letters

  • We need a consistent view on cuts to mental health services
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • THE news that Unison is against the proposed cuts in community services by the Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust (Letters, September 15) shows that...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’ - London and its people need a hug of affection
    Published: 22 September, 2011 MONDAY evening I contradicted myself. For at my age I have accepted John Milton’s immortal words: All passion spent. Nevertheless a surge of anger followed by a...
  • FORUM: Squatting is just not going to go away
    Published: 22 September, 2011 by MYK ZEITLIN SIXTY-five years ago this month a squatting movement was sweeping the country. Properties such as the Ivanhoe Hotel in Bloomsbury (now the Marlborough)...
  • ‘No change’ is not an option
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • I AM writing in response to the letter to the Editor from Unison (September 15). We are in the middle of a large staff change consultation process, which...
  • 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...
  • Thanks to Highgate’s voters
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • I WOULD like to thank the people of Highgate for electing me in last Thursday’s by-election. I am honoured to be the new councillor for the ward and look...
  • How is it police could describe part of borough as no-go?
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • IT was unfortunate that Camden’s full council meeting on September 12 was truncated by an hour and a half to receive feedback on the public meetings held in...
  • Feudal system for leaseholders
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • LIVING in a modest one-bedroom flat in Camden, I find myself having to reckon with feudal-type relations between leaseholder and freeholder. It appears the...
  • Congratulations Labour, but questions remain
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • I’D like to say a big thank you to everyone who voted Green in the Highgate by-election, to all those who helped with our inspiring campaign and to the many...
  • Fightback
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • AT West Hampstead Community Centre we are hugely disappointed that Camden is to not renew our funding from December 2011. This decision has hit us particularly...
  • Car door menace
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • FIRST I would thank the kind people who came to my aid when I was on my bike and my right hand was badly gashed by a person opening a car door at the traffic...
  • Bus route stance is a disgrace
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • TRANSPORT for London met myself and councillors for both St Pancras and Somers Town and Cantelowes wards and Camden Council officers last week to discuss the need...
  • Miners’ lives
    Published: 22 September, 2011 • MANY years ago a Durham miner Jim Ellwood wrote a song advising young miners to get out of the pits before their hair turned grey and they were thrown onto the...