Latest Letters

  • At last, a tax you cannot avoid
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • AS Richard Murphy, in his otherwise excellent piece, is aware, the government isn’t interested in collecting tax billions missing through avoidance and...
  • Difficulties!
    Published: 19 November, 2010 AS an executive member of the Soho Society, I was intrigued to read the letter (November 12) from Pip Granger, whom I have never heard of, but who claims to be a lifetime...
  • Offer of church room is not generous
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • READING Pip Granger’s letter (When the church and society have a falling out, November 12) about the offer of the Allen Room “annex” from St Anne...
  • A privilege to live in central London
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • FORGET the Tory-bashing, Alan Patterson (Letters November 12) and let us look at market forces in an expensive part of town. As a single, retired, man on a police...
  • Social cleansing
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Philippa Roe, the cabinet member for housing at Westminster City Council, has inundated local newspapers with her scheme to move families out of the...
  • Axing our future
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • THE government has taken an axe to our local environment by scrapping the London Development Agency.  I have no problems with the government’s...
  • Prepare for Olympic fat cats
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • YOUR story about the Olympic plans for Bloomsbury (November 12) refers to “a bid to make Bloomsbury the centre for more than 5,000 journalists due in London...
  • Police and schools first
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • PERHAPS Kaya Makarau Schwartz should read page three of her own local Labour manifesto for this year’s local elections (Regenerate bit by bit, November 5)....
  • Renovation nightmare
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • HOMES for Islington (HfI) is renovating kitchens and bathrooms on the Wedmore estate, where I live. As a leaseholder, I thought I would escape the shoddy...
  • Doorstep checkpoint
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • I HAVE it in writing from Homes for Islington (HfI) that all its staff, whether sub-contracted or not, will have to be Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) checked if...
  • Brave stand by couple
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • TOM Freeman and Katherine Doyle, the heterosexual couple who were this week refused permission to register for a civil partnership at Islington town hall, deserve...
  • Where can I leave bike?
    Published: 19 November, 2010 • FOR the past 25 years there has always been parking space for motorcycles at Angel. The new N1 shopping centre cleared away all but space for five motorcycles and...
  • Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’ - The killing fields still yield a rich harvest of death
    Published: 18 November, 2010 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON IN the 1930s, the leaders of the then coalition government laid wreaths with appropriate facial solemnity and returned immediately to Parliament...
  • It’s unique
    Published: 18 November, 2010 • TALACRE is a unique facility and, even if one accepts that a private firm is capable of managing centres to an acceptable standard, it does not automat­ically...
  • Good lunch
    Published: 18 November, 2010 • Clare Latimer (November 11) praises the Primrose Hill Community Association lunch club  “It’s open for residents and locals to come and eat for...