The Independent London Newspaper
18th May 2013

Letters

John Gulliver

  • Sending a tax message to Amazon
    Jessica Graham at Primrose Hill Books Published: 16 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER MORE than 100,000 people have signed a petition calling on Amazon to...
  • Kate’s a Derby winner for Emily
    Top: Emily Wilding Davison’s funeral makes its way to St George’s church, Bloomsbury. Picture: Museum of London. Below: Emily...
  • Fly flag for Ramen, our former mayor
    Ramen Bhattacharya Published: 16 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER EVERYTHING about the atmosphere at the memorial meeting for the former mayor of Camden,...
  • Sisters bring musical magic to our streets
    Pictured Top: The Theodoly sisters Pictured Bottom: their mother Helene Published: 9 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER THE enchanting Hampstead lane,...
  • Art is a snobbish word says top painter Bernard
    Bernard Cohen. Photo: Chris Littlewood Published: 9 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER I SPOKE to one of our most eminent painters yesterday afternoon (...
  • Woman of high ideals
    Published: 9 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER I SAW the best of Renee Oldfield when she helped to launch this newspaper 31 years ago. I had come across...
  • A world on the brink
    Published: 9 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER QUESTION for the older readers: What were you doing 50 years ago during the Cuban missile crisis when the...
  • Ralph ‘heir to Goya’
    Ralph Steadman - How You Gonna Crucify a child in Vietnam without any arms? Published: 2 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER CARTOONIST Martin Rowson took...
  • The ‘Fun Bus’ is rolled out...
    Simon Callow, Ed Berman and Prunella Scales Published: 2 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER SIMON Callow and Ed Berman go back a few years. Simon, the big-...
  • The fight goes on – and on
    The five-storey block. inset: Nick Harding Published: 2 May, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER A QUIET retired chartered accountant and a fast-developing...
  • Writer brings Eslanda out of Robeson’s shadow
    Pictured Top: Eslanda Robeson speaking to Dr Martin Luther King Jr in London in 1962 Pictured Bottom: Actor and campaigner Paul Robeson Published:...
  • Talented Ralph is talk of the ’toon
    Pictured Top: Ralph Steadman. photo: flickr/dave Pictured Bottom: The first published cartoon, which appeared in in a July 1956 edition of the...
  • Years later, stabbing remains a mystery...
    Published: 25 April, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER MORE than 10 years ago a brutal murder took place on a Saturday evening in a club in Camden Road, near...
  • ‘We won’t stand for it!’
    Published: 18 April, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER IF awkward dissidents, using Facebook or Twitter, feel they can sneak up on the police in surprise street...
  • Flower power... A new crop of growers
    Former chairwoman Margaret Scanlon Published: 18 April, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER I HEAR a new crop of younger members have joined the Hampstead...
  • Victoria’s Guantanamo book wins her a following
    Victoria Brittain Published: 18 April, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER IF I had to set out to stalk the author Victoria Brittain I couldn’t have done a...
  • Legendary vision of a brief’s life
    Top: Lord Andrew Phillips (left) Victoria Brittain (right). Middle: Sir Geoffrey Bindman at his 80th birthday party on Thursday. Above: Stephen...
  • Alfie hits back over his right to protest
    Alfie Meadows was allegedly struck with a baton by a riot police officer during student protests Published: 28 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER GRIPPED...
  • The sound of a resurrection of the Christian faith?
    The Palm Sunday procession on Camden Road Published: 28 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER THE sound of a large trombone and a brass band filled Camden...
  • Drugs and bugs timebomb is ticking
    Published: 21 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER IN a chilly street in Archway I got caught up in a discussion with a consultant at Whittington Hospital...
  • A libertarian years ahead of his time
    The site in Pilgrim’s Lane, Hampstead, where Alec Craig lived Published: 21 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER THIS is where Alec Craig lived in...
  • Party gets baiting berating
    Mark Seddon Published: 21 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER WHATEVER happened to Mark Seddon, former editor of Labour’s Tribune, Evening Standard...
  • Alexis’s winning ways
    Alexis Tsipras. Photo: FrangiscoDer Published: 21 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER A COUPLE of minutes into his speech Alexis Tsipras cracked a telling...
  • Former councillor’s sins of demolition
    John Richardson Published: 21 March, 2013 TIME for a mea culpa from ex-councillor John Richardson on Friday at the Oxford Arms in Kentish Town....
  • Is he 'Europe’s Hugo Chavez'? Charismatic leader of Greece’s popular socialist party impresses Euston audience
    Published: 19 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER A COUPLE of minutes into his speech he cracked a telling joke. With a twinkle, the leader of Greece...
  • Freuds taking a patient approach
    Cilla Freud (left) Lord Freud (right) Published: 14 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER YOU just cannot get away from the Freud family! Now, one of them...
  • Wolfe canvasses opinion on re-interpreting greats
    Wolfe von Lenkiewicz’s ‘Les Saltimbanques’ (left) Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (right) Published: 14 march, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER AT first...
  • ‘Magdalenes’ victims
    Published: 14 March, 2013 ARE there any Irish families in this part of London whose relatives suffered in the scandalous treatment of so-called...
  • Not so sweet...
    Published: 14 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER BEWARE those low-fat diets! Recommended to keep your heart healthy and your weight down, in fact, they...
  • Civic Society is 50
    Published: 14 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER THAT venerable institution, the Camden Civic Society – helpful guardians of our environment...
  • One for the road, Colin!
    Two of Colin’s many cartoons for the New Journal Published: 7 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER THE occasion could have been sombre, the setting...
  • Garage sale nets a cool £1.6m
    The line-up of six garages on land that could be developed into flats Published: 7 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER THEY stood in a row, six...
  • Hospital running a 7-day operation
    Published: 7 March, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER I WAS surprised to find myself referred to University College London Hospital for a scan – on...
  • Completion date for road works is a pipe dream
    Published: 28 February, 2013 ONE of the busiest intersections in north London has been turned into a building site – by Thames Water. Traffic...
  • Dark memories, and a message for Le Pen
    ‘Cleo Yvel’ and her twin spent years in hiding Published: 28 February, 2013 by JOHN GULLIVER I MET her in a Belsize Park café on...
  • Determined woman with a rare ability to listen
    Anne Swain Published: 21 February, 2013 A STRIKING painting of a wartime corvette hangs on the wall in the hallway of Anne Swain’s home in...
  • The irrepressible Ed’s back in town
    Pictured Top: Dr Susan Croft, above left, who spoke about radical theatre in Camden on Friday, with Ed Berman and Sara Newman Pictured Bottom:...
  • Soaring prices in a ghetto
    Published: 21 February, 2013 DOZENS of people were seen going into a house in Regent’s Park Road, Primrose Hill on Saturday, and then leaving...
  • Serving suggestion only. . .
    Published: 21 February, 2013 MY little barb last week may have hit home. The Department of Transport has ordered HS2 to remove a publicity video...
  • Boris’s father predicts HS2 barricades
    Park Village East, which features in the film, is not included in the compensation offer; inset left: Stanley Johnson Published: 14 February, 2013...