Latest Letters

  • ‘Comedy will die from grassroots up’
    Published: 9 July, 2010 Businesses, audiences and performers are all losing out because of City Hall’s de facto flyering ban, argues David Mulholland Westminster Council is forcing up the...
  • Schools will get rebuilds
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • IN A recent Tribune report on funding for planned major improvements at Islington secondary schools, Labour councillors claimed the government had put this funding...
  • Lib Dems fail cuts test
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • WE were not surprised when Conservatives in Parliament voted for an unfair, unjust and unequal Budget. But the Liberal Democrats had a choice. And they chose to...
  • Cloud over our homes
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • ONCE upon a time there was a well-loved, well-kept place in London called Islington. However, one day a dark cloud came across and told Islington Council it should...
  • Is a closed club fair?
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • WE were disappointed to hear that within five days of the Mayor and Burgesses of Islington Council receiving our petition of more than 400 signatures to reopen the...
  • Total overpayments to suppliers could top £500,000
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • IT is totally unacceptable for any taxpayers’ money to be wasted by a council, let alone the large amounts so far revealed. This is particulary true during...
  • Systems are improving
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • THE Tribune quotes Councillor Phil Kelly as saying that the lack of formal contracts between the council and four out of 10 of its suppliers is “deplorable...
  • Shameful fiasco
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • THANKS to the Tribune’s front-page article we are now aware of some of the endemic problems exposed in the management of Islington Council. I was extremely...
  • Why send 20 police officers to deal with bus fare cheats?
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • YOUR correspondent (Cops target clubbers, July 2) has hit on a very interesting point. In these difficult times, how are police resources allocated, especially in...
  • No records lost, no money mislaid, no ‘sloppy admin’
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • YOUR front-page report (The millions ‘mislaid in sloppy’ admin, July 2) is simply not accurate. No money has been mislaid and it is a shame that a...
  • Even the Lib Dem fig leaf can’t hide shame of these Tory cuts
    Published: 9 July, 2010 WE were not surprised when Conservatives in Parliament voted for an unfair, unjust and unequal Budget. They believe in protecting the rich and the powerful before...
  • Other avenues for the protesters
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • MARK Taha (Fly decision, Letters July 2) is entirely wrong in suggesting that it is only pompous politicians, for instance, who find “democracy village...
  • Curb the anti-social clubbing
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • I’M beginning to wonder if the council cares at all about the plight of residents in the West End who are suffering directly as a consequence of both its...
  • Beyond Porter!
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • NEW limits on the rents on which Housing Benefit will be payable, to be introduced by the government, will mean that 84 per cent of families in Westminster currently...
  • Exploiting the housing system
    Published: 9 July, 2010 • INTERESTING to read Karen Buck MP’s Forum (Prepare for a perfect storm, July 2). However, surely we must all agree that the Housing Benefits system needs radical...