We desperately need to help more women into engineering. It is hard not to feel disappointed that, in 2018, our plea remains the same. Yet, four years on from the first National Women in Engineering Day, progress comes at a slow pace. It is a point of embarrassment that the UK is lagging behind when it comes to gender parity […]
Read moreDear editor, Jessica Learmond –Criqui again raises the issue of crime and her obsession with blaming the Mayor for the increase in crime ( even though the increase in London is less than in the rest of the country). Firstly, of course, the real blame for rising crime attaches to the criminals themselves, an obvious fact on which she has […]
Read moreDear editor, The chaotic introduction of the Thameslink and Great Northern new commuter routes timetable shows just how much an already bad service can get even worse. In the meantime Conservative MP Mr Offord, the Chair of the Thameslink All Party Parliamentary Group, has strangely kept his head well down. This is also the MP who welcomed the award of […]
Read moreDear editor Jessica Learmont-Criqui criticises me (letters 31st May) over not continuing the correspondence over police numbers. At the risk of sounding like a cracked record, but to answer her concern, I would remind her that she has again avoided the challenges I gave her over her bizarre approach to the role of the Mayor and the funding of the […]
Read moreDear Editor, After dither and delay, and being taken to Court numerous times, I was pleased to see finally the Government publish its Clean Air Strategy this week. It is absolutely unacceptable that local people in Barnet and Camden continue to be exposed to toxic levels of air. According to the latest data, air pollution causes over 9,000 premature deaths every […]
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