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  • Gaps in the Spirit of ’45
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • YOUR film critic gave Ken Loach’s Spirit of ’45 a full uncritical five stars (Loach’s lessons from 45, March 15). Having lived through the period of...
  • Lesson from 87-year-old
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • MY personal expression in rhyme, for missing education at the right time (A sixth-form free-for-all, March 15). ABC and 123 It is endless and should be free...
  • Eyesore tower blocks our view of the City Road Basin
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • REGARDING the danger of surrounding  the City Basin with tall buildings, the Canaletto tower (an insult to a great painter) under construction is already an...
  • Why we should praise a leader who lifted his people out of poverty
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • Under Hugo Chavez Venezuela has had decent employment, healthcare, education, including a literacy campaign, social security and the means for mass involvement in the...
  • Hospital buildings should be transformed... not sold
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • DEFEND the Whittington Hospital Coalition would like to thank the 5,000 members of the Whittington community for turning out on a wet Saturday to tell the hospital...
  • Will the Royal Mail deliver genuinely affordable flats?
    Published: 22 March, 2013 • ROYAL Mail has organised a new exhibition about the Mount Pleasant development so people can see the progress being made on the project. Sadly, no significant...
  • Billions for weapons but not for health
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • EVERYONE in the area is angry and anxious about the threats to Whittington Hospital. Under current health legislation the board of the hospital has to apply for...
  • Axed tree a victim of politicians interfering where they’ve no right
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • I WAS extremely concerned to read of the destruction of a healthy mature tree in Gillespie Road, Highbury, last week (Councillor’s fury as ‘healthy...
  • Selling flats shortsighted
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • FOR some time Islington Council has been pursuing a policy of selling off  –  into shared ownership – some of its one-bedroom flats when they...
  • Curb the parasites
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • I CONGRATULATE Fred Goodchild on explaining how the rich use privatised water companies to steal from the rest of us (Water bills pump up investors’ earnings,...
  • Chavez: rights and wrongs
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • JEREMY Corbyn’s unofficial “obituary” of Hugo Chavez is full of  the obsequious, obedient and dutiful expressions of a fellow comrade (Chavez...
  • Get real about Mayor’s hidden agenda
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • THANK you for the coverage of the lobby at City Hall by Islington Pensioners Forum members, MP Emily Thornberry, Fire Brigade Union officials and councillors (Anti-...
  • Hospital sell-off a symptom of the break-up of the NHS
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • IN the last few decades successive governments have startlingly proposed a series of radical changes to the NHS. They have been like earthquakes shaking a solid (if...
  • Short rail link could ease strain of travelling to City
    Published: 15 March, 2013 • THE run of signalling failures and the quite possibly related incident on March 8 when a piling drill fell in through the roof of the tunnel highlight a need for...
  • Talk of ‘crackdowns’ makes young people feel alienated
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • THE “oppressive, punitive” language of Gordon McIntosh’s Safer Neighbourhoods police team, which wants to “crack down” on youngsters...