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Tanya Gold assumes there is a very general and supportive attitude to the royal family (Cover Story, 5 April). 'Monarchy is attractive,' she writes. No it isn't. Less than half [...]

I trust the entries to This England are checked to ensure they reflect the intended purpose of raising a smile and reminding us of the often mildly ridiculous minor events [...]

There was an interesting conjunction between 'The new politics of migration' (Leader, 18 August) and 'The struggle for order' (The NS Essay, 18 August). The leader is right that the [...]

When I was shortlisted to be the Labour candidate in the 2016 London mayoral election, I proposed removing responsibility for terrorism, diplomacy and parliament from the Metropolitan Police (Leader, 24 [...]

If only Tony Blair had done 20 years ago what his Institute is now proposing. Although new school buildings were built and money for mentors and teaching assistants was made [...]

It takes a journalist of Peter Wilby's experience to aver that 'journalism has become so partisan, and its readers so embedded in their ideological silos, that nobody understands the concept [...]

Mike Ion (Correspondence, 20 December) lists the achievements of New Labour. These, if we can call them 'achievements', given 13 years of power, were consigned to history not by Jeremy [...]

The solution to the problems set out by Dr Phil Walker is to have all GPs employed directly by the NHS--as with nurses, junior doctors and others such as physiotherapists [...]

James Kirchick ('Trump and the triumph of certainty', Observations, 25 November) refers to Nigel Farage as a foreign 'dignitary'. But Farage is not a 'person considered to be important because [...]

Philip Ball is right that machines don't think like humans - but that is precisely the point ("Inside the mind of the machine", 13 December). Any downturn in the economy and a bad Brexit would probably hit hardest in seats that voted against Labour for the first time in the last two elections. Of her answers to the question why, as a lifelong Labour voter, she was seriously considering voting Tory, one leaps off the page: "I think we would be better off leaving the European Union and trading with the US". I am an old Labour member who initially resented the parachuting in of two centrally approved candidates as potential replacements for our retiring Labour MP in South Coventry. [Extracted from the article]

Later in the day, you tweeted that responses have prompted you to ask your Labour candidate "for her views on the controversy about anti- Semitism in the party". So what if the party is contaminated by Jew hatred if it is also the party that will save the country? So what if the party is contaminated by Jew hatred if it is also the party that will save the country? The driving out of leading Jewish (and non-Jewish) politicians from the party, who cited its anti-Semitism, did not have a substantial impact on party morale, still less commit its officials and elected members to decisive action. [Extracted from the article]

LETTER OF THE WEEK Revitalised thinking The articles in last week's excellent issue by Jeremy Cliffe, Ian Leslie and Emily Tamkin all revitalised my thinking about Black Lives Matter (A World In Revolt, 12 June). In this light, some mixed feelings about what happened to the statue might be allowed, and not because slavers should be memorialised or that there can be any equivalence whatsoever between an assault on a metal statue and an assault on the body of a slave. Perhaps Colston's should be replaced with a statue of a slave: a different kind of dialogue with Burke. [Extracted from the article]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to various articles published in previous issues including "Unfinished Business" about former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's comments on Great Britain's exit as member of the European Union in the November 25, 2016 issue, and "First Thoughts" about the traditional working classes and their need to be protected, also in the November 25, 2016 issue.