Latest Letters

  • Who wants to keep this street art anyway?
    Published: September 8, 2011 IT is amusing that the “Banksy landlord” (September 1) holds captive a specimen of guerilla art with all the zeal of a zookeeper. That his CCTV hopes to...
  • We need our police
    Published: September 8, 2011 I WENT to the Camden summit about the riots in Chalk Farm (Mounting resentment of stop-and-search dominates post-riot summit, September 1). The police do need to deal...
  • Good GCSE results
    Published: September 8, 2011 THE reported figure of 59 per cent for the benchmark of five A*-C grade GCSEs including English and maths’ was an under-estimation. Latest calculations show that...
  • We must fight inequality
    Published: September 8, 2011 MORE than ever we need our community centres, youth services and community policing, but we also need politicians and political parties prepared to stand up and fight...
  • Mail – It all needs sorting
    Published: September 8, 2011 I SYMPATHISE with Tony Selina complaining that he doesn’t get his mail delivery in West Hampstead until 2pm to 2.30pm. But I was amused by his comment that “...
  • Closure of Mornington Leisure Centre
    Published: September 8, 2011 THE Mornington Leisure Centre, which was expensively refurbished and reopened not so long ago, is threatened with closure from December 2012. In case you haven’t...
  • The bizarre tale of spy vs non-spy
    Published: September 8, 2011 MANY thanks for a very fine edition of the New Journal. The detailed report (How spies trailed barrister suspected of Communist sympathies, September 1) was especially...
  • No leading by example
    Published: September 8, 2011 NOT once do I recall the budget cuts affecting the elected. Take Labour, for instance, a party who broke its own manifesto promises to the people of the borough. Funny...
  • Cinderella
    Published: September 8, 2011 AT the beginning of August I was attending my friend’s 40th birthday at a club called Oceana, in Nottingham. Around 3am I met a young man (aged 18) from the Camden...
  • Start tackling obesity: Stop the subsidy on MPs’ food and drink
    Published: September 8, 2011 IN the old Glasgow music-hall song, “Twelve and a tanner a Bottle” (lamenting the high price of whisky) one verse goes: There’s taxes on this. There...
  • Again, where will the homeless get their free meals?
    Published: September 8, 2011 I’VE been shocked at the lack of respect shown by Camden Council for Food for All (Why so silent on Food For All? Letters, September 1). As I understand it local...
  • After the disorder…
    Published: September 8, 2011 I ATTENDED one of the summits called to hear the views of people and organisations on the public disorder in Camden Town and Chalk Farm. I was surprised that, in addition...
  • Highgate Library news
    Published: September 8, 2011 I AM loath, once again, to write in about Highgate Library for fear of sounding like a broken record. However, it appears that Councillor Maya De Souza has misunderstood...
  • Illtyd Harrington: Recall – bid time return and it’s back to school
    Published: 1 September, 2011 ILLTYD HARRINGTON: AS I PLEASE JAQUES’ speech in As You Like It sets out in the second stage my vision of all boys going to a new school. “Then the whining...
  • Why do politicians keep failing us on the economy?
    Published: 1 September, 2011 • IN your Comment (Foreign takeover malaise – a curious British disease, August 25) you express the feelings of the vast majority of Britons who simply cannot...