Latest Letters

  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 HOW Tom Martin aspired to an MSc in gender, media and culture is puzzling. He clearly doesn’t understand the term “sexism”. For clarity I would refer...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 I WRITE to thank the Heath and Hampstead Society, the local community and the New Journal for the tremendous support which they have given to the shop and to me over the...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 I AM extremely concerned about the current state of the care system in this area and the country as a whole. It is not only failing the elderly but those with illnesses...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 I WISH to correct your coverage of our community event, held on September 3, the Lismore Circus Fun Day. It was not organised by Gospel Oak Neighbour­hood Action...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 WHY are Camden trying to kill the Belsize Free School? Why do Camden hate Belsize Park so much? Within approximately three weeks the Department for Education will make...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 THE 1971 Misuse of Drugs Act has failed miserably, as prohibition always does (Forum, September 8). It is correct that cannabis does less harm to society and the...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 TRAFFIC accidents involving London buses have increasingly blighted Boris Johnson’s City Hall since he became Mayor of London. Just another sign that this area may...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 CONCERNING RHD’s letter (September 8) on the subject of politicians’ food and drink, I can assure people it’s just not Members of Parliament who get...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 Those to whom evil is done, Do evil in return. WH Auden September 1, 1939 The God Of Things As They Are Turns now this way, now that, Bestowing the same smile On...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 FAR from ignoring the open letter printed in the Camden New Journal by Peter O’Grady, I would like to respond to the ongoing unfair criticism being levelled at the...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 HOW can this possibly happen? A deprived teenager, found guilty of stealing a bottle of water in a riot, is sent to prison for six months, yet Conservative property...
  • Published: September 15, 2011 ON the subject of Michael Williams’s Forum on HS2 (Take the fast track to a new prosperity, September 1) it’s nice to know that I am a rich landowner!...