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  • Anti-semitic witch’s brew
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • IT wasn’t me who asked if Wagner was “really an  anti-semite”, but the paper’s added headline (Wagner’s anti-semitism, February 22...
  • Water bills pump up investors’ earnings
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • WATER rates have just been hiked along with gas and electricity prices. In the case of water you may be shocked by the findings of an investigation by corporatewatch....
  • Benefit cuts nightmare
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • AS an advocate for a small charity in Islington working with people with learning disabilities, I have experienced service users “suffering” the ordeal of...
  • Wobbly Tuesday showed what the anti-war march achieved
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • THIS week marks the 10th anniversary of “Wobbly Tuesday” – one of the biggest secrets of the Iraq War. As I note in my new book about the anti-Iraq...
  • Try asking a self-serve kiosk for help?
    Published: 8 March, 2013 • ISLINGTON Unison has serious concerns about the introduction and implementation of self-serve in Islington libraries. Not only has this been used to cut nine posts out...
  • We’ve nothing to fear from urban foxes
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • FOXES are more visible as they become accustomed to city life. People should be reassured that just because they often come closer, looking for food or just being...
  • Time to cap rising rents
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • REGARDING housing benefit cuts, why does nobody, particularly those in government, talk about tackling the root of the problem – rents are too high? The...
  • Let’s really fly the flag
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • WHY can’t the English flag be hoisted above Islington town hall for more than just one day of the year? I believe that as a borough in the capital of England,...
  • We must band together to oppose blow-by-blow attacks on NHS
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • JOE Liddane, from Whittington Hospital, called a public meeting on Monday for a “discussion” of the hospital’s plans for its future. Leaflets were...
  • On the carpet
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • WE have been told that the Whittington Hospital is short of funds, yet in the staff area of the ground floor new carpets have been laid. One side clearly doesn’t...
  • Fire stations rescue bid
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • ISLINGTON Green Party urges residents to make full use of the Mayor of London’s consultation on fire services to oppose in the strongest possible terms the...
  • How to make lorries safer
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • THE Ward Partnership meeting in St Peter’s ward on Wednesday had a desperately sad item on the agenda, covering the aftermath of the tragic death of Janette...
  • Whittington land sell-off a good deal
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • THE response to the plans of Whittington Health to meet its financial and service challenges reflects both the affection felt for the hospital and a lack of...
  • Winter waxwings right at home in our city gardens
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • WE get an influx of waxwings every winter now (Winter of the waxwing, February 22). The number of waxwings seen has increased over recent years and they are now...
  • Hospital’s Q&A only made me more worried than ever
    Published: 1 March, 2013 • THANKS to the Health and Social Care Act and associated secondary legislation, the NHS is possibly about to undergo massive irreversible changes, moving inexorably...