Latest Letters

  • Neither collusion nor unhygienic residents
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • I AM perplexed by the report (Eco group paint over mural by refugees, July 8) about neighbours in uproar as environmentalists wreck a historic mural in Primrose...
  • Memories of Beryl
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • WE remember Beryl Bainbridge as a wonderfully witty artist. We met her through our uncle, Mervyn Horder, a publisher who owned Duckworth. When he retired he sold...
  • Summer’s plague of cyclists
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • SUMMER is on us again and the pavements have been infested with even more cyclists. Who will rid us of this plague? Will it be the govern­ment, the MPs, the...
  • Figuring out education cuts
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • IT is not only Michael Gove who has got some of his facts wrong in his statement about cancelling funding to rebuild secondary schools. The figures being put...
  • Fightback to start here
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • THE cuts imposed by the government are another example of wealth transference to the rich from the poor and working people who are subjected to ongoing impoverishment...
  • Digital TV switchover boom for bamboozlers
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • THE huge advantage of switching Britain from analogue to digital television is that it replaces five free channels with around 50 free channels. Most people will like...
  • How will Town Hall respond to orders to cut?
    Published: 15 July, 2010 REDOLENT of  the mid-1980s, a protest meeting against the government’s stern budgetary cuts on Monday (see page 2) threw out a glimmer that turmoil may lie...
  • Local need
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Peter Brayshaw is right to talk about potential benefits of UKCMRI for local employment and the community (Forum, July 8). But I’m appalled that...
  • Deprivation
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • PETER Brayshaw, writing in a personal capacity (July 8) about the UKCMRI plans for a super lab behind the British Library, surely got things a bit wrong about the...
  • Research lab will not benefit Somers Town
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • I WONDER whether Councillor Peter Brayshaw had done his homework before putting pen to paper (‘Super lab’ will bring real benefits’, Forum July...
  • David engages in serious debate
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • DAVID Miliband should have known about Camden’s housing issues (Crisis? What housing crisis? Miliband unaware of bitter homes repair battle, July 1). But...
  • Big jester festival
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • THANK you for publishing photos of our very successful West Hampstead Jester Festival (Jester lot of fun! Tricycle’s big festival, July 8). However, I feel...
  • Challenging Mr Gove
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • EDUCATION secretary Michael Gove told MPs that everybody involved in the Building Schools for the Future process had told him to make sure the project ends. He...
  • So foolish
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • IT’S more than sad to see the drastic cuts in funding for refurbishment of Camden’s schools. It’s foolish! There is a huge amount of solid evidence...
  • Make an exception for community school
    Published: 15 July, 2010 • MANY parents and local residents will have been upset by the announcement concerning the national Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. It is part of...