comment082009.html

Publications by New Journal Enterprises

Home

Archive

Competition

Camden New Journal - Forum: Opinion in the CNJ
Published: 20 August 2009

Land of the free – but not for health

Rubbishing our National Health Service is nothing new in the US.
Yet Americans spend twice as much on health care as we do and still can’t cover everyone, explains Theo Blackwell

OVER the past two weeks a transatlantic battle has raged first on the web... > more

Letters

Anybody else fallen into the Grafton Road trap?
> more

Letters

Physiotherapy blow just another nail in the coffin
> more

Letters

What happens to people living in too big a home?
> more

Letters

How many books are in our libraries?
> more

COMMENT & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Cable wages a war on salaries as Town Hall pay soars

WHAT kind of a mess have the Lib Dems in Camden got themselves into?
Their own financial guru Vince Cable – who is probably the most popular politician in Britain – would surely frown if he scanned the pay scales for Camden... > more

Little thought for social costs of replacing our caretakers - I WAS both saddened and pleased to read about caretakers’ plans to mount a legal challenge... > more

Advice bureau will be open for longer hours - WE recognise the enormous value that the citizens advice service provides to residents. > more

Teams offer dedicated and positive policing, ward by ward - I SUPPOSE any local newspaper in a slow month will be tempted to find an issue around... > more

I was not in when the Careline service called for help - COUNCILLOR Martin Davies, Camden’s executive member for adult social care and health sent... > more

Chris was a great man - I WAS shocked to hear of Chris Harbon’s death and feel that the Fleet Community Centre should be re-named after him. > more

Bike ban - AROUND two years ago council leaseholder residents at Primrose Hill Court were asked by the Town Hall to move bicycles from communal... > more

It’s the physics stupid. . . - YOUR reader (Exhausted by the stupid people who drive cars, August 13) is justified in railing against foolish drivers who leave... > more

Heath robbers are still at it - LAST week, you reported robbers struck on the heath. Well, they’re still at it. I was assaulted by five young men on Sunday night... > more

When times were tough for the Irish migrants - PETER Berresford Ellis reviewed Enda Delaney’s book: The Irish in Post War Britain (CNJ Review, August 13)... > more

Positive feedback - WORK is well underway to bring all of Camden’s council homes to the Decent Homes standard (a national quality benchmark for... > more

Now invest in a police station fit for the 21st century - WE now hear the news that Kentish Town police station has been given a reprieve by the... > more

Worry for private tenants - IT was a great sadness to see the number of worried faces at the packed meeting of held by the Camden Federation of Private... > more