Latest Letters

  • After the battle…
    Published: 6 May, 2010 • WHITTINGTON saved (Victory for the people, April 29)? Last week I called it wrong.  I said there would be reprieve for the Whittington.  The great campaign...
  • Less hassle!
    Published: 6 May, 2010 • WHAT does Sanjay Shah (Letters, April 15) know about the local mental health services?  I have been using them for more than 20 years now and I think that they...
  • Obsession with secrecy bodes ill
    Published: 6 May, 2010 • THE Camden & Islington NHS Foundation Trust claims that one of its guiding principles is “openness”.  If this is so why is it excluding the...
  • Uncertainty
    Published: 6 May, 2010 • THE radical reorganisation under the label Growing Your Library has had major repercussions for the library staff and quietly in the background they have had to...
  • Cuts ahead
    Published: 6 May, 2010 • CAMDEN head of libraries, Mike Clarke claims that he is addressing “factual inaccuracies” of claims of excessive redundancy pay-outs of public money...
  • Living in mansions or poverty
    Published: 6 May, 2010 • A SIMPLE equation for Rupert Sheldrake (‘Mansion Tax’ punitive, Election Letters, April 29) living space equals money. Does it seem fair to you that...
  • Chaos?
    Published: 6 May, 2010 • I MUST confess myself dismayed, after the chaos we all endured during the development of St Pancras International Station, to read about proposals for similar...
  • How many in the community back the proposed Peace Garden?
    Pubished: 6 May, 2010 • THREE points for the debate between proposers of South End Green’s “Peace Garden” and the residents group opposing it: First, the mysterious...
  • Your polls wish-list
    • IT’S not the job of Woodstock Road Association to advise you how to vote in the forthcoming general election. It’s not even up to us to suggest which box to put your cross in when...
  • Saving our markets
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • MANY readers will have used the popular Farmers’ Market situated behind William Tyndale School in Upper Street over the last 10 years. After work started...
  • Promises, promises
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • WHAT are we to make of all the promises flying about as the local elections draw nearer? In 2007, when Islington approved the building of Bridge School in...
  • Who is in coalition?
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • FOLLOWING months of Lib Dem attacks on Labour over the future of Whittington Hospital, Shirley Franklin, joint chair of the Defend the Whittington Hospital...
  • The NHS will last for as long as we are willing to fight for it - If the future of our health services was wrested back from the private sector, there would be no need for the threatened round of cutbacks, argues Wendy Savage
    Published: 30 April, 2010 In 1997 the Labour Party came to power promising to reverse the changes introduced by Kenneth Clarke as Secretary of State for Health in 1990 under the banner “Working...
  • No complacency over services
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • I WAS disappointed to read your story (‘Don’t let dealers snare us,’ April 23) in which it was claimed that drug users would be “sucked...
  • End to the old sexual contract is a social revolution
    • ONE thing is certain about the outcome of this election – fewer than 20 per cent of our Members of Parliament in Westminster will be women. Whoever wins will be gathering in a House of...