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17th May 2012
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NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Guess who will end up paying for the 'benefit' of HS2?; Support for Ken Livingstone has slipped in Camden - so what went wrong?
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: As they reject Camden GPs' bid to launch new service, it's clear that bosses still don't realise that the NHS should be run for patients
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Town Hall's housing repairs staff tribunals bill soars – but what about the human cost?; Sense has been towed away in our mess of a parking system
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Abuse has risen throughout Britain since private companies began to run care centres, so can profit motive be compatible with looking after the elderly?
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Maximising customer value? Patients - particularly the elderly - are overlooked and consultants cash in as all eyes are on the bottom line in modern NHS
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Traffic chaos grows as Camden Town's junctions are transformed, but TfL steer away from telling us what is going on
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Cameron deserves success in his bid to curb drinking; Sympathy for teachers who marched against proposal to raise retirement age in an emotionally draining job
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Hawley Wharf decision-making process was a victory for our great tradition of debate, however chaotic or unharnessed
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Hasn't it sunk in with rich Heath managers that it's a cheek to charge pond bathers?; Slow down on Hawley Wharf; Rise of the press office 'Tuckers'
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Never mind the denials and the stubborn reaction to criticism, NHS privatisation is being slipped past the public
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Supermarket’s future obscured amid political spin - but there may be a chink of light for the co-operative
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: A foretaste of marketised health on our doorsteps; and why Thierry Henry's housing plans are an own goal for Camden
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Rail project spells destruction for ordinary families
NEW JOURNAL COMMENT: Cameron finally spells out what NHS ‘reform’ will mean
Reform of our coroners’ courts is now long overdue
Will Hawley Road dynamism be lost to red tape?
Tower fire highlights the need for vigilance by council
Good cause to fight against being fast-tracked to disaster
A clear vision of what our health service should be
Flunked opportunity
Skulking into town
Turn on, tune in, pay up: where is the digital opt-out?
They’re itching to take away our universal benefits
‘Dinner ladies’ and how PM could be made to eat his words
Are we snookered by outsiders with wrecking balls?
As I Please
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: After all the London Mayoral brouhaha, Ken Livingstone converts to New Labour – New New Labour, that is
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: 'Rupert Murdoch not a pretty sight as Bacon's screaming pope who tells all – or nothing'
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: An alarm call for the people who bang a drum for life on Camden High Street
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: Who will best run this great city of ours - and can they really cut through the red tape of this centralised government?
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: Rumours and talk of a return to Falklands conflict as the dogs of war are set loose again… recruiting now
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: 'Rehabilitating Rupert Bear and how we have abandoned a lost generation of children with no aspiration or hope - but all is not lost!'
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: 'Assertive mothers, the Queen Mother, the mother of all battles, the motherland and why I'm sceptical about Mother's Day'
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: 'I'm an Irishman who is proud to be Welsh - it's a winning combination'
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: 'God, was your father really in the Brigade?' When the streets of Spain became slaughterhouses
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: Prepare for the London 2012 Olympic Games bonanza - as more playing fields go
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: 'Ed Miliband, if you have to walk around like a Bond girl, then do it'
ILLTYD HARRINGTON: War the gold, frankincense and myrrh of high finance
Herod’s slaughter would win him a peerage today
Then we had politics, now it’s the temple of Asda
When the bearded silent one met the Iron Lady
Peace on Earth is hardly a viable proposition
The authentic voices of Londoners
AS I PLEASE: A White Christmas in June with Bing
The ship of state off course and on the rocks
Rough justice can end up with a fatal mistake
Dorothy and friends win war of ideology
The unmistakable smell of jingoism is in the air
Back from an annual trip into the Twilight Zone
AS I PLEASE: Humanity, drama, pity, and a day the world forgot
AS I PLEASE: Recall – bid time return and it’s back to school
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Opinion
FORUM: Our assembly must engage people, says newly-elected member for Camden & Barnet, Andrew Dismore
FORUM: 'Despite months of struggle, this is only the beginning for community library that is there for everyone'
FORUM: As community continues to be criminalised, why the sudden interest in 'saving' Somalia?
FORUM: It's lost its funding, but scheme that means our most isolated and lonely neighbours have someone who they can look forward to seeing, must be saved
FORUM: 'Soccer supermen became vulnerable boys on an extraordinary day when football went out of the window'
FORUM: 'Despite the disruption, doing nothing is not an option - our rail system is overcrowded and HS2 is the way forward'
FORUM: Is the Town Hall about to extend its abysmal record on heritage by getting it wrong at Hawley Wharf?
NEWS EXTRA: TV presenter Gail Porter issues appeal for help to recover sign stolen from charity shop
FORUM: 'Mayor's Office wants to make cuts, but world famous Camden Town needs its police community support officers more than ever'
FORUM: Why there's a big problem with the backlash against hacking
FORUM: Highgate’s defence against developers
Euston, HS2 certainly has a problem!
Make hate crimes a thing of the past
An unacceptable side to charity work
FORUM: No need for austerity, simply devalue, says John Mills
Wharf scheme’s at the heart of things
It’s time to ‘Go Dutch’ for safe cycling
Put your money where your conscience is
It’s high time to democratise ‘the City’
Academies: must it all end in tiers?
FORUM: Boundary Commission proposals - Frank Dobson says: "So they want to kill off my constituency"
OPINION: Time for mature approach to cannabis, says CSG pupil Charlotte McClean
FORUM: Opposition to a new high-speed link is sad to see, given Camden’s place in rail history, argues Michael Williams
PROFILE: 97 year old Ernestine LaSalle, on suffragettes, emancipation, cuts, alienation and today’s rioters
OPINION: The bottom line? Prison doesn’t work, says Haldane Society lawyer, Liz Davies
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