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Published: 29 October 2009

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COMMENT & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Our politicians have become consultantaholics

ADDICTIONS take many forms. Some people are addicted to drink or drugs.
But another addiction lurks behinds the staid walls of the Town Hall – an addiction to the use of consultants.
It’s a new phenomenon that can be traced back to the early 1990s, when the rules of the market economy were introduced into the life and business of Camden Council, as they were throughout the country. > more

Dalby St and the question of accountability - NICK Harding’s letter (Misleading Sport England, October 15) deserves a supportive response. > more

Support us in the fight against creeping privatisation and the threat to post jobs - WE are a group of postal workers and union representatives. > more

Museum critics can’t speak for us - THE so-called Bloomsbury Conservation Advisory Committee has no right to speak about the British Museum development... > more

No room for complacency over resistance to antibiotics - IN the last two years we have seen hospitals getting over-excited when they find the incidence of MRSA... > more

Plea on Wharf site - I HOPE your article on the Hawley Wharf development turns up the heat on the developer to come clean about plans for the phantom third site. > more

What a Carry On - YOU credit the lovely woman in the centre of the above photograph as being Ms Nolan (Review page 3, October 22). > more

Vale view - “MORE worthy of the Costa Brava, not Hampstead Heath”. > more

Conkers - DOUBTLESS the chestnut recipes by Clare Latimer are delicious, but gathering chestnuts for human consumption is not without risk. > more

We can’t be choosy about free speech - FREE speech cannot be selective. > more

Positively the PM - WE refer to the front page article of the October 15 edition of the New Journal (PM gets a grilling from gran) and feel it does not truly reflect the... > more

Oppose online cuts - I AM concerned about Camden Council’s proposal to slash their funding for a vital resource. > more

Successes of PCSOs - I AM writing in response to your article (Business’ doubts on community cops, October 22). > more

Maiden Lane estate ‘consultations’ a farce - YOUR correspondent, RD Warren (October 15) is right. > more

Fitzrovia nightmare - THERE is a problem in the south of the borough. > more

CAB cuts - WE write as volunteer advisers and support workers for Kilburn Citizens Advice Bureau. > more

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