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  • Attack on vulnerable
    Published: 12 April, 2013 • THE prospect of a Labour government doling out housing and other welfare provision not on the basis of need but on the basis of what people have “contributed...
  • Benefits are not too high, it’s the wages that are too low
    Published: 12 April, 2013 • THE unemployed are still being used as scapegoats for the present economic situation. Well-heeled spokespeople imply that the unemployed prefer to live on benefits...
  • Whipped from under our feet in the great land grab
    Published: 12 April, 2013 • FOLLOWING closely on the news that Whittington Health Board is going to sell off half of the hospital site, I have received four other communications. One is from an...
  • New River homes threaten link with historic buildings
    Published: 12 April, 2013 • READERS may recall that a few years ago Thames Water sold the remaining undeveloped and most historic part of the New River Head, containing the engine house, the...
  • Out goes olde worlde charm in comes Manhattan skyline
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • IS it not time for a People’s Plan for south Islington? Clearly from the contributions of local people at the pre-Easter Bunhill-Clerkenwell Ward...
  • Why deny benefits to society’s poorest?
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • EARLIER this month, Caitlin Reilly, an unemployed graduate forced to work in Poundland for free, won her legal challenge against the so-called “workfare”...
  • Early discharge could lead to a quick return… to the casualty unit
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • I AM concerned about the proposed closure of hospital beds at Whittington Hospital.   While recognising that people receiving treatment in hospital prefer that...
  • Goatman’s grazing spot
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • IN 2010, Marie Lloyd Garden Open Space Group applied for the third of an acre of land in Upper Holloway to become a town green under the Commons Act 2006. It’s...
  • Don’t touch our Green
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • THE swing to Labour in last month’s two by-elections reflects a widely-felt fear of the right-wing coalition government’s policies on ordinary people....
  • Such a wonderfully talented actress deserves plaque tribute
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • IN July last year the Tribune kindly published my letter in which I supported Eda Leach’s proposal that a plaque be erected in Islington to honour Jean Simmons,...
  • It’s a home not an asset
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • AS I am fortunate enough to own my house, I continually get letters from estate agents keen to offer me their services should I be seeking to sell or rent it. Many...
  • Working world opt-outs
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • THE debate about the bedroom tax touches on a wider malaise contributing to the benefits culture. Because renting or buying a roof over one’s head is so...
  • By banding together we can stop this bedroom tax
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • THE bedroom tax is cutting benefits for 4,000 people in Islington and is causing extreme stress for those of us who are affected. The tax will mean a drastic cut of...
  • Whittington: A case of the best of a bad lot of options?
    Published: 5 April, 2013 • SO the council knew about the Whittington sell-off plan (Whittington: Who knew what, when?)? Or maybe it didn’t, and it was all wishful thinking? So what? Too...
  • SAVE OUR WHITTINGTON - Forum for our voices
    Published: 29 March, 2013 • I WOULD like to thank the Islington Tribune team for its presence on the Whittington Hospital protest march. While there has to be consideration of the current...