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Tuesday, January 19th 2021

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Our tribute to Claude James

• WE wish to pay tribute to Claude James of Rowley Way who has sadly died, aged 90. Born in Grenada, Claude lived most of his...

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Ban facial recognition surveillance in public spaces

• LONDON’S new rules for developers of new public spaces must ban the use of facial recognition cameras, and I’m calling on mayor...

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Where the mask and dispose of them responsibly

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In the pandemic leaf-blowers are more than a noise danger

• AS we have been advised to stay at home at this time, some of us now have no way to avoid the deafeningly high decibel noise...

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Doing the lottery is not an essential service

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Lockdown is destroying the fabric of society

• A DOCTOR of epidemiology stated the other day that he doesn’t want to belong to a society that wasn’t prepared to lock down to...

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If they say we all die of Covid-19, the paperwork burden will ease

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Where your masks in busy outdoor spaces

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We are left helpless in this phony lockdown

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Support your NHS workers

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Fix this madness over the freedom pass

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I don’t even have a hat…

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Hard to imagine that Sir Keir was once a human rights lawyer

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Councillors should listen to the people who want to see the Talacre debt paid

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There are to be unintended consequences of Brexit

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Pay supermarket staff better wages

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Join us in shaping Camden’s 2021 and beyond

• LIKE few years in our lifetimes, 2020 challenged us all. It challenged communities, high streets and businesses. Covid-19...

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Let’s get real with our policy on drugs

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Sign the petition to save Carlton Primary School

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We have seen minimal government action to reduce UK emissions

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Retrofitting is the way forward

• THANK you for your inspiring January 7 issue of the CNJ, (Camden Future Journal). One thing that came through clearly is the...

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What if we can all invest in growing global wellbeing?

• AS somebody deeply interested in our community and its future, I’m writing to say how thrilled I was with the number and...

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Your ‘sponsored feature’ didn’t grab me…

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Big Jack is a star

• WITH all that’s going on I was loath to add to the burden reporting a busted lock. I expected to wait a long time for help. But...

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I wonder if the dog owners feel they are getting good value for money?

• A DIFFERENT take on the wretched “professional” dog walkers on Hampstead Heath! (Flawed new rules planned for professional dog...

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Stop this sham of so-called traffic improvement

• THIS sham of so-called traffic improvement (closure of roads and gridlocking) should be stopped immediately. It’s causing...

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Let’s get our MPs to back the Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill

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Our local hub shows how vaccination should be done

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Lines for Alison

THERE is freezing fog by Denton Tower and the Denton Boyz are puffed akimber gibbering mightily. Netball is dead, their...

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We received a ‘fire risk assessment’ letter on Christmas Eve

• ON Christmas Eve letters from the managing agents of Lock House were hand-delivered, informing us there was a “mitigating fire...

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So when will we get the vaccinations?

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Let them rot in the restrictions when they grow older

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Romans had a word for it

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We are fortunate to have the community spirit of Abacus Belsize Primary School

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We need a strategy for sustainable travel

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The distance to remember is two metres

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The red tape’s ‘ours’ now!

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For a switch to electric vehicles charging points must be provided

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Thoughts on local government innovation and citizens’ assemblies?

• IN a recent Financial Times article Professor Mariana Mazzucato returns to some to the themes she outlined in her book The...

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My labrador was attacked by three dogs on the Heath

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To call dog walkers professionals is a misuse of the word

• NATALIE Scott does not seem to understand the reason for the introduction of limits to the number of dog walkers and their dogs...

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Dogs off the lead as a group are potentially dangerous

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I’m ashamed of Sir Keir Starmer’s attack on socialists and open debate

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The ‘war’ on drugs is futile

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Will the anti-social go to the back of the vaccine queues?

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Horse racing is not ‘posh’

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Shame about the bad behaviour…

• SCHOOL kids missing out is a worry, it’s true. But what about teenagers and early-20s missing out on all that bad and...

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Let’s move on from the honours system

• OUR honours system looks ever more absurd with every year that passes. What the hell is an Officer of the Order of the British...

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It had to be a scam!

• HARD these days to keep a grip on reality. I was texted by my bank’s “fraud department” saying they were going to call me in a...

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Labour councillors have supported suspended members

• STEVEN TAYLOR laments that councillors have not spoken out publicaly against the suspensions of local Party officers,...

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Must they cover up all signs of the natural world

• I AND others have used the columns of the CNJ to slam Camden’s street planners for their destruction of magnificent mature...

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Flawed new rules planned for professional dog walkers

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We must be ready to fight for free access to the Heath

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Lessons from an epic past

• THE epic Ben Hur was shown on our Christmas televisions. The narrative shows Judah Ben Hur’s mother and sister ending up as...

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A lovely Christmas with a last-minute Santa

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Kindness meant we were not alone at Christmas

• I DID not feel alone at Christmas because the love sent by family, friends and well-wishers warmed my heart. The kindness of...

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The council is ignoring widespread littering on our streets

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Good Germans who opposed Hitler were brave and noble

• WILSON John Haire’s graceless response to those who sacrificed their lives opposing Hitler says more about him than them, (The...

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Telling it how it is

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The value of good team work

• IT was fantastic to hear the news that Camden’s Learning Disability Service won “Team of the Year 2020” at the Royal College of...

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Our precious open spaces need to be protected not vandalised

• CAMDEN planners in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s evaluated the amount of open space and play space needed in an area that the...

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Why do councillors ignore what we tell them?

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Guilty but why is nothing done?

• THE Christmas holiday is an orgy of guilt about the poor people. Surely the point is to do something about it! KW HOWARTH, NW1

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The truth will out for Boris

• WHY spoil his patina of boyish charm By asking him not to lie? Since he believes a good lie does no harm And is always worth...

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We shouldn’t be charged for a service we haven’t had

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The élite had their own motive for trying to kill Hitler

• WE’VE had this before – resistance by Germans to the Nazi regime, and now once more, according to the review of the book The...

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Councillors’ silence lets down their party and the labour movement

• THE failure of any Labour councillors to speak out against the suspension of their local party officers or challenge the...

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Join me on the slippery slope?

• THE latest horror prediction from climate change experts is that we may never again see snow on Primrose Hill. While walking...

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I imagine Camden has it in for residents

• I IMAGINE that Camden Council has it in for residents of this borough. High Speed 2’s assurances – no action, and meaningless!...

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