Latest Letters

  • TRIBUTE TO ELLEN LUBY: Always a good comrade
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • IT was a sad day when we all said goodbye to Ellen Luby. She will be a missed by her friends and comrades. We go back many years. One of our best campaigns was to...
  • TRIBUTE TO ELLEN LUBY: Such a formidable force
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • ON behalf of my family I wanted to thank you greatly for your beautiful article published on the July 15. My grandmother will indeed be remembered by many of her...
  • Enlighten us about all this money
    Published: 29 July, 2010 •AS a longstanding, indigenous, taxpaying, resident I have been racking my brains to discover what benefits exactly are attributable to a lady called Moira Gibb....
  • It didn’t take long for Labour to go back on sell-off promise
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • SO, it took all of 10 weeks for Camden’s Labour councillors to be revealed… Last week they went back on their election promise not to sell off any...
  • Pay for it!
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • SORRY but, despite assertions from various individuals (Letters, July 22), no reliable tests have shown any real benefits from homeopathy. By “reliable...
  • Medicines understood?
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • WITH regard to homeopathy (Letters, July 22), I understand that all “fringe medicine” – including acupuncture, which should be practised with...
  • Efficiencies
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • I WAS thrilled to attend the reopening of Kentish Town baths and sports centre complex on Saturday. It’s a glittering renovation of which the entire borough...
  • Daft name
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • THE report (Are you ready to take the plunge? July 22) rightly identifies the Prince of Wales baths as a local landmark event. Why then are local people...
  • Old days?
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • HOW depressing to see that, barely three months into office, Labour are ditching promises they made on the campaign trail in King’s Cross (Labour U-turn...
  • Access point
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • I’M glad Labour have seen the light and support the plan for a new King’s Cross site. When we discussed this it seemed the new site could deliver...
  • New town hall and private land won’t mix
    Published: 29th July, 2010 • I NOTE with interest that “improved customer access” is a key measure of the council’s property strategy, as detailed in a report handled by...
  • Our debt
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • A SPLURGE by the Labour government led to national debt to balloon before the bank bail-outs. In 2007/08, before the bank bail-outs hit the balance sheets, we...
  • Orwellian?
    Published: 29 July, 2010 • IN your Comment , (Labour need a moral compass to steer past cuts, July 22) you suggested that it was “Orwellian” to argue that the previous Labour...
  • Conserve or destroy?
    Published: 23 July, 2010 • NO 2 St Paul’s Road, a building more than 150 years old in Canonbury conservation area, is in danger of demolition, although structurally sound. Its future is...
  • Put cops in electric cars
    Published: 23 July, 2010 • I FULLY endorse the comments of James Slattery (Curb police car speeds, July 16). I too have regularly witnessed police vehicles racing down Highbury Park with lights...