Latest Letters

  • Students: no one is listening
    Published: 3 December, 2010 An open letter from Pimlico Academy post-16 students. • WE, students of Pimlico Academy sixth form, reject and disagree with the coalition plans to raise tuition fees...
  • FORUM: Soho church eviction battle goes on
    Published: 3 December, 2010 Members of the conservationist group the Soho Society staged a sit-in at St Anne’s Church in Dean Street in protest at their eviction. Here, the society’s...
  • Anti-cuts posters branded ‘propaganda on the rates’
    Published: 3 December, 2010 by PETER GRUNER The Town Hall was this week accused of wasting public money by putting up 150 anti-cuts posters in bus shelters DOZENS of “Can cuts be fair?...
  • Students badly let down by politicians
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • DEAR Camden School for Girls pupils, I am compelled to write only to congratulate you on your amazing open letter, (New Journal, November 25) to your teachers....
  • Games plan
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • WE would like to thank all of those who came to the first Bloomsbury area action group meeting.  It was pleasing to see such an excellent turnout wanting to...
  • Threat to a lifeline
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • IN the comprehensive spending review, the chancellor announced that the government would be removing the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance for those...
  • The trouble with snow
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • NOW the snow has arrived I’ve realised that snow-shovelling is a silly idea, fraught with difficulties, and should be left to those who know what they are...
  • It’s our future
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • IT’S odd that at the very moment the council is planning huge cut-backs of £90million it is also considering a redevelopment in Gospel Oak.  Hardly...
  • We’re staying
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • PEOPLE here are distressed and angry at the proposed destruction of our estate and with it our community.  Lamble Street and Barrington Close is a real...
  • Divide-and-conquer mentality on redevelopment
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • READING the many letters from residents in the Gospel Oak area (Letters, November 25) a word of sympathetic warning.   We are in the midst of a fairly large...
  • No violence
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • SATURDAY’S Reclaim the Night March to the Camden Centre was a great success for hundreds of sisters who met to celebrate women’s right to be free from...
  • Is it a park for vehicles?
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • WATERLOW Park is frequently circled by vans, trucks, 4x4s and cars each weekday.  The park is small; just 400 metres by 500. Yet Camden Council insists all the...
  • Ordeal by telephone
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • YESTERDAY, without notification to patients, the system for incoming calls at the Hampstead Group Practice in Fleet Road, NW3 changed.  It sounds as though a...
  • Let’s have an end to kettling
    Published: 2 December, 2010 • THIS kettling method of police control really must stop.  It was begun by Margaret Thatcher in a demonstration in Oxford Circus when American tourists, who had...
  • Pain on and off the buses
    Published: 2 December, 2010 Open letter, morning bus problems • I AM writing to ask for some thoughts and hopefully action over a new habit/development on (specifically 31 and 253 buses). ...