Latest Letters

  • How trees should be
    Published: 5 May, 2011 • WESTMINSTER looked superb on the day of the wedding. The stars of the show were the magnificent trees, with their graceful branches shimmering with their glorious...
  • Good old shop days
    Published: 5 May, 2011 • HOW very silly are we to shop in these big supermarkets so that we lose our friendly little butchers with sawdust on their floors who thought nothing of giving you a...
  • NHS still at risk
    Published: 5 May, 2011 • I HAVE been wondering what the Coalition government is hoping to do during the two months delay to the Health and Social Care Bill that they have initiated.  Then I...
  • Unnamed street confusion
    Published: 5 May, 2011 • THERE is a new version, dated 2010, of the Local Area Map on bus stop shelters in Camden Town, based on the Ordnance Survey which has much to commend it.   However...
  • Cycling safety blind-spots
    Published: 5 May, 2011 • I WAS dismayed to see letters purporting to relate to the recent death of cyclist Paula Jurek, under a “Let’s all make cycling safe” headline (April 28...
  • Stand up for the libraries
    Published: 5 May, 2011 • IN the whole furore over libraries (Labour is more upbeat, April 28) we should remember that it is the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government which is calling the...
  • Thanks for the circus, shame about the bread
    Published: 5 May, 2011 • JUVENAL coined the phrase “bread and circuses” in 100AD.  The ancient Romans used to appease the working people by giving them cheap bread and...
  • CNJ COMMENT - A harsh lesson in politics for our schoolchildren
    Published: 5 May, 2011 CABINET ministers deal in statistics. The Treasury, under the Chancellor, draws up a nation’s balance sheet. What all this means in human terms usually escapes our...
  • FORUM: Strength in an active community
    Published: 5 May, 2011 COMMUNITY involvement is a very bad title for a set of ambitious guidelines setting out only how a local authority, in our case Camden, modestly proposes “to publish...
  • FORUM: Illtyd Harrington: ‘As I Please’
    Published: 5 May, 2011 by ILLTYD HARRINGTON OUR oyal wedding day was a disaster. The O’Shea family claimed a regal past – a proposition based on the letter O which they claimed was...
  • No to HS2
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • WELL done Labour councillors Birch, Eslamdoust, Khatoon and Robinson for voting against HS2 at last week’s (Camden Council) scrutiny meeting.  I urge the...
  • People to decide!
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • I DISAGREE that all AV does is allow the second thoughts of the third-placed party to decide that will be the final result. The third-placed party will not decide...
  • The PM’s politics of hypocrisy
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • HOW can the Prime Minister not balk when telling us that a fairer voting system is too complicated when he himself was elected leader by a similar system?  The...
  • Licences for cyclists?
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • NOT wishing to cause distress over the terrible death of another cyclist in Camden, I would however say this: cycling has always had an element of danger and, as a...
  • With AV, the candidates don’t go for soggy centre
    Published: 28 April, 2011 • JONATHAN Glanz’s letter (AV lends power to the extremists, Letters, April 15) smacks of hysteria. If AV was going to let in all kinds of horrible extremists, I...