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  • Pubs help to keep Soho’s legendary music scene live
    Published: 7 May 2010 • IT is good to see in the economic recession, with pubs closing down, that there are two pubs within 100 metres or so of each other in Soho doing quite well with live...
  • Let’s hear it for local theatre
    Published: 7 May, 2010 • SPEAKING as a Soho resident who loves theatre, does anyone who actually lives in the West End know about The Soho Theatre on Dean Street? And if you do actually know...
  • The fox is a formidable foe
    Published: 7 May, 2010 • WHILE harmless badgers are culled, the foxhunting ban causes fox numbers to multiply and migrate to London. They use back gardens for safety and breeding to the...
  • A one-way trip to Zurich?
    Published: 7 May, 2010 • WITH the election campaign over, it is time to recall your Illtyd Harrington’s warning (April 16) that promises made to pensioners could all too easily be...
  • Cyclists need more than bollards and wide pavements
    Published: 7 May, 2010 • I AM absolutely flabbergasted at Westminster’s approach towards the capital’s cyclists. One would have to be a cloth-eared emu with agoraphobia not to have...
  • Lifetime!
    Published: 7 May, 2010 • AS a tenant in Church Street, I note a senior Conservative view, publicly proposing the abolition of automatic lifetime tenures for all council tenants. A senior...
  • Market forces out children
    Published: 7 May, 2010 • FROM my window, four flights up, I saw the sad bank holiday sight of a family with two children go to the gate of the small play area in the car park in the centre...
  • Memorials and open spaces
    Published: 7 May, 2010 • THE proposed monument to Bomber Command in The Green Park will be on Piccadilly and will encroach into the park.  It will be 85 metres long and a massive...
  • No complacency over services
    Published: 30 April, 2010 • I WAS disappointed to read your story (‘Don’t let dealers snare us,’ April 23) in which it was claimed that drug users would be “sucked...
  • End to the old sexual contract is a social revolution
    • ONE thing is certain about the outcome of this election – fewer than 20 per cent of our Members of Parliament in Westminster will be women. Whoever wins will be gathering in a House of...
  • Homes needed
    • POLITICIANS beware, the “gravy train” has hit the buffers and the casualties are, and will be, those who ignore the people’s call for change. Vacated homes are being sold...
  • A charter to counter greed
    Published: April 30, 2010 • IN the run-up to the general and local council elections, can I make a plea for a non-party alternative called The People’s Charter. Launched in March...
  • Letters to the Editor - One way to ensure better representation for Soho?
    Published: April 30, 2010 • DAVID Cameron’s “big society” is perhaps the most interesting idea to come out of the election campaign. He wants people to get involved to make a...
  • Election Forum - New era or the same old story?
    Published: 29 April, 2010 by TARIQ ALI • I won’t be voting – as a protest at how things have become. I may go out and spoil my ballot paper, but I’ll see how I feel in the...
  • A more equal society is good for you
    Published: 23 April, 2010 Reversing the wealth gap of the past 30 years would bring massive gains to the United Kingdom, argues Kathryn Busby of The Equality Trust “I increased the gap between...