Latest Letters

  • Theft by moonlight
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • AS a favour, my friend collected my 15-year-old daughter from a party on Saturday and brought her home at 11.30pm. She parked in Highbury New Park for...
  • Cops target clubbers
    Published: 2 July, 2010 • WITH regard to the alcohol control zone imposed in Clerkenwell, I now read with some considerable degree of incredulity that the very same Islington police who...
  • Skating in the Vale of Health, formerly Hatch’s Bottom
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • THE Christopher Wood skating painting is clearly the Vale of Health. CHRISTOPHER WADE, NW3 • WRITING about the painting of skaters by Christopher Wood, Dan...
  • Shortage
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • THE new Labour administration in Camden has been talking about its commitment to providing a good education for all. These assertions are at odds with their lack...
  • Labour’s challenge on demand for primary places
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • ONE item on which the new Labour council has been uber-quiet since taking over has been the need for two new primary school forms of entry in the north of Camden....
  • Critic is criticised
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • I WAS so surprised by your theatre critic’s rev­iew (June 24) of Through a Glass Darkly at the Almeida Theatre that I wonder whether we saw the same...
  • Gardens of delight
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • WE all too often hear of poor workmanship and lack of dedication to doing jobs well. I would like to give an example where the opposite is true.  A few years...
  • The Party’s office looks like the Marie Celeste
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • IT seems the “missing in action” tag for our newly elected local councillors isn’t limited to Regent’s Park (Where are they now? Letters...
  • Crucial questions about Arlington House
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • COUNCILLOR Chris Naylor (Arlington success, June 24) needs to answer three questions. First, how could Arlington House have failed within his terms given the vast...
  • After the driverless train, what chance other jobs?
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • DOES Councillor Johnny Bucknell (Driverless trains, Letters, June 24) think that driverless trains and the tracks maintain themselves? He and his ilk should...
  • Academies a one-way street
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • I UNDERSTAND there is a rush, so far only one known in Camden but a great many in rural areas, for schools to convert to academies. The government has made much of...
  • Recycling system? It’s all one load of rubbish
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • IN our street we received all the new recycling bags last week for collection this week. Alongside our general green bag for plastic/cans/etc, we now have separate bags...
  • CNJ Comment - Shhh! They’re sneaking up on libraries again
    Published: 1 July, 2010 BOOK by book, Camden’s libraries have been emasculated after years of retrenchment. The Camden Library Service expenditure on books has, for many years, been below...
  • Not the look
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • IT is not the look of the outside of the proposed new UKCentre for Medical Research and Innovation building in St Pancras but the proposed content and barbaric...
  • So who did block the publication of top salary details?
    Published: 1 July, 2010 • YOU reported (‘Shock’ as council wages are revealed, June 17) that the new Tory leader Councillor Andrew Mennear said he was “personally glad...