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Wednesday, November 20th 2019

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Extinction Rebellion activists are doing their best

• EXTINCTION Rebellion are doing their best to bring attention to climate change. I live in Twisden Road, which is narrow and...

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Camden’s strategy on resurfacing roads is damaging

• CAMDEN Council has declared a climate emergency, yet they have got Volker Highways resurfacing Lady Margaret Road. I walk down...

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The Royal Free should be ashamed

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November 21 is Carers Rights Day

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• AH, the tabloids during any election: “lynch mobs of ‘popular culture’, dripping with prurience and outrage, helping to create...

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Wearing a red poppy does not glorify war

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Lines on Remembrance

Remembrance Above our Northern, dubbed “Misery Line” Lies track, from Far East, words failed to define. Quartet of relics, the...

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‘To ensure peace, one should prepare for war’ still holds true

• LIKE Albert Beale, (We need to reject warfare, November 7) I want peace but the maxim that to ensure peace, one should prepare...

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So who is responsible?

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A manifesto for housing

• THIS year marked an important anniversary for us social housing tenants: 100 years since the “Addison act”, which for the first...

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Rats don’t leave a sinking project after all

• DID the HS2 review not include an investigation as to why it was only after royal assent for the bill was given that all the...

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HS2 is recognised as a monstrous waste of money

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Read the small print with Lib Dem claims

• ON Saturday I was given a Lib Dem leaflet which claimed that they were “winning here in Hampstead and Kilburn”. It had a bar...

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Lib Dems should stand down

• THE Liberal Democrats should stand down their candidates in Hampstead & Kilburn and Holborn & St Pancras. It seems...

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Lib Dems have faced less scrutiny than other parties

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Cuts continue to be a threat to schools

• SCHOOLS in Camden are continuing to suffer because of funding cuts, (Parents warned another primary school could face closure,...

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We will fight to stop our children being scattered who knows where

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Why Brexit cannot be a success for the UK

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The country needs a royal commission on housing

• I WAS saddened to read in last week’s New Journal your report of the proposed replacement by housing of the light industrial...

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To avert climate catastrophe the council needs to enter emergency mode

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The affordable housing crisis has reached a critical level

• SUCCESSIVE governments have failed to deal with the dire need for social and genuinely “affordable” housing. This need has now...

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Theatre memories of James Roose-Evans

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In praise of Sally Gimson

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Who to thank for the all-year ‘Christmas’ lights

• HOW fortunate Camden Town is to have its generously staffed Camden Town Unlimited BID. I presume it is thanks to them that we...

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To oppose a Labour victory now is to deliver the country to racists of all stripes

• RABBI Dr Jonathan Romain (Maidenhead synagogue) wrote last week to his congregation urging them to “defeat Labour” because he...

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The Tory party is more divided than ever before

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Repeated lies have history

• THE Evening Standard spread the hate from pregnant TV Countdown star, Rachel Riley, when it saw fit to print that she opposed a...

From the West End Extra

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A good start to his campaign…

• COHERENT start by Jeremy Corbyn… “The task is to catch the soul of brevity so that the...

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My sheltered housing is both too hot and too cold

• LIVING in my sheltered housing for a number of years, I have never known a single year when all the heating didn’t go off and...

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Brexit is a great idea on so many levels

• AS a socialist, to me Brexit is a great idea on so many levels. The common agricultural policy (CAP) takes up half the EU...

From the West End Extra

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Focus on the facts in the Euro debate

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We’ve had a people’s vote

• SO inept of the Labour Party to have a Brexit policy that would involve a Labour government negotiating a new deal with the...

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Democracy is under threat if the referendum vote is not honoured

• MARTIN Kennedy’s wonderful letter (There’s nothing democratic about the EU, October 31) describes accurately the echoing of the...

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The EU does not govern the UK

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For Lester May on his pelican crossing…

• WHEN Lester May (Do the buttons on pelican crossings really do anything? October 31) is waiting to cross the road by...

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Bus stop saga is ridiculous

• BUS stop P in St Pancras Way, Camden Town, has, in the space of two months, had its shelter dismantled, the pavement dug up,...

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Please help to find my car

• EARLY morning last Thursday my house was broken into, resulting in thefts including my car (clearly identifiable as used by a...

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Let’s beat the bullies

• ANTI-BULLYING Week is from November 11 to 15 with the theme “Change Starts With Us”. We all have a role to play in creating a...

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Lessons can be drawn from the ‘u-turn’ on fracking

• ON November 2 the headlines on the front page of most national newspapers were: Boris Johnson to ban fracking. Great praise was...

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Why the silence on HS2

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We need to reject warfare

• PLANS for Remembrance Day events to honour those who died in past wars do not reflect the reality of what happened. The...

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All-day parking vouchers discriminates against those who do not own mobile phones

• CAMDEN Council now supply all-day parking vouchers only to those who own mobile phones. It is possible to buy paper vouchers...

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To witness shop-lifting disturbs me

• I DON’T know about you, but I find it disturbing when I witness blatant shop-lifting taking place right in front of my...

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They’re all crooks, so I’m looking after No 1

• I’M in favour of cynicism up to a point and we have to have our critical faculties about us when we consider politics, but we...

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Walk of fame? We’re overcrowded as it is

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Abolish the law that kills dogs because of the breed

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Faeces the facts…

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Have your say on the clutter of estate agents’ boards

• FULL credit is due to Camden Council, and Cllr Danny Beales in particular, for taking action to prevent the proliferation of...

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The council lacks the resources to consult over tree projects

• I THOUGHT your readers might wish to be informed that Camden Council now lacks the resources to consult local residents about...

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How time catches up with one

• I WAS made aware of my dotage when, last Saturday, reminding a friendly Camden busker to adjust from British Summer Time, he...

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After the failure of HS2 what about tree-planting?

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Stop the closure of Bassett Street Community Garden

• COUNCILLORS – please stop closure of Bassett Street Community Garden, NW5, vegetable growing space. This great community garden...

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Respect is due to Jocelyn Barrow

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It’s time to get angry with this nasty government

• FOLLOWING on from the four-page wrap-around advertisement from Camden Council on an earlier issue of the New Journal, our house...

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We need a new dialogue with Brexit

• THE Brexit debate over the past three years has, by and large, been conducted on the basis of emotional slogans (“take back...

From the West End Extra

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Words of advice concerning power

• ADVICE for a prime minister on the temptations of power – Vaclav Havel, Czech president...

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EU citizens are welcome here

From the West End Extra

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There’s nothing democratic about the EU

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Combat shop crime by taking up CBak radios option

• AT the safer neighbourhood meeting last week the police highlighted the issue of theft from local shops and the low take-up of...

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Being part of the safer neighbourhood board could not be easier

• FURTHER to the letter from “Peter”, (The Safer Neighbourhood Board lacks transparency, October 24): Camden Safer Neighbourhood...

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How to fight knife crime – the mistakes continue

• INSANITY is repeating the same thing again and again while expecting something different to happen, as Albert Einstein so...

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Fox attacks on swans are not common

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It’s not hearsay to report dogs attacking swans on the Heath

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Greed-based ideology has ripped our country apart

• I WRITE to thank Fran Heron, the chair of Camden Town District Management Committee, for her excoriating Forum, (Our area...

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Do the buttons on pelican crossings really do anything?

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Beware the dangers of wi-fi and 5G

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My thanks for the care I received with the NHS

• I WOULD like to offer my public thanks to my GP at James Wigg practice in Kentish Town, the medical team and all the staff who...

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Full-time councillors are not good for democracy

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Let’s have militancy to clean up our streets

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