Latest Letters

  • Hands off tenants and their housing benefits
    Published: 16 July, 2010 Open letter to Nick Clegg and David Cameron • CUTS in housing benefit set out in the Budget will make the poorest pay for the housing crisis. Unaffordable housing...
  • State education is for other people’s children, isn’t it?
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • SO David Cameron is “terrified” of sending his children to a state secondary school in Westminster. If he is so concerned about secondary schools in...
  • Architectural gems deserve preserving, not vandalising
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • THIS week, we heard that a planning application to build a huge, ugly additional storey on top of our homes at Northview in Holloway was withdrawn. Many thanks to...
  • Scrutinise ‘Big Boys’
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • BEING among those the Tribune rightly described as “shocked” as we listened to the long list of millions of pounds of council financial...
  • Our thanks after fall
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • ON Thursday, July 1, on leaving Culpepper Gardens, my husband had a nasty fall. I would like to thank the two gentlemen who helped him up and lent him tissues to...
  • Builders on my balcony
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • AT 8am on Monday, July  5, I was woken from my sleep by the shadowy figures of two men who had climbed onto my first-floor balcony with a ladder and...
  • Help firms survive cuts
    Published: 16 July, 2010 • WITH impending cuts within many local government departments and the news that Business Link is to be officially cut, now is the perfect time to keep business...
  • Forum - Handing over your health service - Judy Davis on white paper (Liberating the NHS) - GP commissioning and an increased role for the private sector.
    Published: 16 July, 2010 NOW private companies are finally to get their hands on billions of pounds of the National Health Service budget to buy care from …other private companies, warns...
  • Hands off tenants – and their benefits
    Published: 15 July, 2010 Open Letter to Nick Clegg and David Cameron • Cuts in housing benefit set out in the Budget will make the poorest pay for the housing crisis. Unaffordable housing costs...
  • Who voted for this?
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • NOT only do school repairs face cuts but there are growing fears that those in work will lose jobs. No talk yet of bringing the troops back from Germany, occupied...
  • Don’t deny the science
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • I AM sorry, but there is no evidence that homeopathy works, despite the handful of assertions in your letters pages (Medicine, not witchcraft! July 8). This is...
  • Last straw
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Angela Mason’s warning about the forthcoming cuts to Camden’s public services is timely and, sadly, only too true. The government proposes...
  • Punitive
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • IN seeking to protect the libraries in his patch, Conservative councillor Jonny Bucknell fails to appreciate the inevitable consequences of the punitive programme...
  • Guarantees?
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • WHEN Councillor Tulip Siddiq, executive member for culture, states that she is unable to promise to keep open libraries in Belsize and Chalk Farm, she is howled...
  • Public prosecutor is brought to book on grammar
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • I READ the article on  Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecution’s visit to Holy Trinity Primary School in Finchley Road, Hampstead. I was...