Justice system scandal fails children
The horrific case of Baby Peter highlighted how intolerable it is for any child to be left at risk of harm, yet our courts are deciding children’s futures and the young people themselves are being denied a say, argues barrister and Liberal Democrat parliamentary campaigner Jo Shaw
PROTECTING children is... > more |
Austerity is already biting those at the bottom of the pile
THE prospect of the coming years of austerity is exercising the main political parties but to many people it seems as if they have already arrived.
These are the people down below – the jobless teenagers, the neglected elderly and the families who fear they will never have a home of their own. > more
Library machines marching to the beat of gobbledegook - RUTH Gorb wittily dissected the verbiage in which Camden’s plan for the future of libraries is enshrouded. > more
Hoffnung and his tuba - ALAN Stafford’s play Afternoon Drawn To Music, on Radio 4 on Monday afternoon commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death... > more
RIP Albie - I HAD the privilege of meeting Albie Fiore for the first time at the Acol Bridge Club, West End Lane, circa May 1989 (Obituary September 10). > more
McCarthy’s witch-hunt - THE headline “McCarthy’s bad guy role in a dark Hollywood drama”, and the sub-head “From Chaplin to Orson Welles, the... > more
Landlords’ lift responsibilities - THE front page story last week (‘Trapped in a lift is an emergency’, September 24) is misleading. > more
Rising above racist jibes - “NO Irish need apply” – may I have a final word? > more
Rail crush - I AGREE with Gill Rouse (September 3) and Pam Walker (September 17) about the seating arrangements on the new North London Line trains. > more
Celebrations in memory of Heath campaigner
- CELEBRATIONS in memory of Bobby de Joia, founder of Heath Hands and campaigner for so many Hampstead... > more
Staff at the museum deserve better conditions - FOLLOWING your article (British Museum to seek ‘vital’ £135m revamp, September 24) about the proposed... > more
Heroes on postcards - IF you have a hero who lives or lived in the Borough of Camden, we’d like you to send us your Poem on a Postcard. > more
Leaseholder democracy - CAMDEN Lease-holders Forum is having the fifth election now for a new three-year term. > more
No mention for market - AS one of the Labour candidates for Gospel Oak ward I see that the glossy council brochure promoting shopping in Camden omits mention... > more
No snobbery - ARCHITECT Eamon O’Sullivan (Letters, September 24) says Ken Livingstone, when mayor, ruled that “if a development has more than nine... > more
Time for change on mental health - ALL around me I see advertisements for a Time to Change, World Mental Health Day celebration in Regent’s Park on... > more
Care trust must put GP-led centre plans on hold - THIS week the council’s health scrutiny committee was once again faced with proposals by the primary... > more |
