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I always look forward to an article by John Gray, and dived into his review of Dominic Sandbrook's Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979-1982 (Books, 8 November). I'm sure Gray's analysis--that [...]

Your leader ('The future of the BBC', 19 February) states that 'Conservative critics charge the BBC with having a liberal, or left-wing bias, while their opponents allege the reverse. Neither [...]

Leaving aside Walter Benjamin's essay 'Unpacking My Library', I can think of other reasons to doubt Amelia Tait's claim that books can be reduced to their contents (Out of the [...]

If Leo Robson believes that Theodor Adorno 'rejected the extended treatise in favour of the fragment, the aphorism, the diary entry ...' that suggests he is unfamiliar with the latter's [...]

John Gray (Cover Story, 25 May) defines 'alt-liberalism' as 'a mutant version of liberal ideology', and goes on to tell us that alt-liberals are 'embedded chiefly in universities, where they [...]

There once was a young man named Pinker Said: 'It's certain life isn't a stinker! Though the news has plenty to frighten, Just lie back and let Kant us enlighten!' [...]

Phil Collerton asks for the names of ten famous Belgians, excluding sports people and fictional characters (Correspondence, 1 December). I can give you, off the top of my head: Michel [...]

As much as I have grown to love Nicholas Lezard's column, his recent revelation (Down and Out, 7 April) that he wrote his article while naked in bed almost made [...]

I suppose it should not be surprising that Andrew Marr ('An optimist's guide to Brexit', 16 December 2016) concludes a survey of the various options facing the country after Brexit [...]

The most disturbing aspect of Tom Clark's 'Why hard times became harsher' (Observations, 25 July), and perhaps its most telling comment on post-Thatcher Britain, is the assumption that people will [...]

Erica Wagner (The Critics, 8 July) writes: 'I can no longer curl right up like a doodle bug in an airplane seat.' I had difficulty visualising a Second World War [...]

Ben Martynoga writes that 'we thrive on stress' and experience adrenalin rushes similar to those caused by stressful workplace experiences when watching thrillers or sport, or when gambling ('Chill out', [...]

In his thorough review of Bryan Magee's Ultimate Questions (The Critics, 11 March), Rowan Williams mentions evolution, but does he go quite far enough? What is often omitted in this [...]

So, Richard Johnson (Correspondence, 6 March) finds Tom Humberstone's satirising of so-called British values unpatriotic? Quite apart from showing how claiming national ownership of moral values is a patent absurdity, [...]

You criticise Lewis Hamilton for never having 'uttered a political sentence of interest or significance' (Leader, 28 November). Meanwhile, I hear that Jason Cowley has never even driven a racing [...]

Felix Martin (Real Money, 6 December) shouldn't be surprised that John Law is commemorated less well than his compatriots Adam Smith and David Hume. Though it's certainly true Law rose [...]

Nicholas Lezard isn't the first person to encounter philosophy teachers with interesting ways of pronouncing names (Down and Out, 13 September). Many years ago, I had one teacher who called [...]

Ian Blair (The Guest Column, 6 September) may know a lot about police relations with ethnic minorities, but he demonstrates a profound ignorance of democratic politics if he thinks the [...]

Beethoven's grandfather wasn't Dutch ('Facing the music', Arts & Culture, 15 September). He was Flemish. The van Beethovens originated in the environs of Mechelen (Belgium), where many of them still [...]

Whether or not Tom Woodward ('No sex, please, I'm young', 1 January) is 'bored of sex', I'm certainly bored with this sort of gormless illiteracy. If only a squadron of [...]

I agree with Simon Heffer that working-class Toryism has always been a prominent feature of our electoral landscape ("Rise of the new working-class Tories", 24 January). John Gray's review of a new edition of Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a rather disappointing exercise in orientalism (The Critics, 31 January). I taught both Sun Tzu's Art of War and Carl von Clausewitz's On War to several cohorts of military staff college students. Sun Tzu's work is favoured by proponents of the so-called manoeuvrist approach to warfare, with its emphasis on decentralised decision-making and initiative. [Extracted from the article]

Presents a letter to the editor regarding the article 'The String Theory Landscape' by Raphael Bousso and Joseph Polchinski.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The American berserk" by Simon Heffer and "In defence of Project Fear," both in the March 11, 2016, issue, and "The German problem" by Mark Leonard in the March 4, 2016, issue.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the December 16, 2016 issue including "An Optimist's Guide to Brexit" by Andrew Marr, "Kezia Dugdale, the Diary" by Adrian Mole, and "First Thoughts" by Peter Wilby about mistakes made by British politician Boris Johnson.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the July 8, 2016 issue including "Should Tony Blair Be Forgiven?" by Peter Wilby, "Fighting Words" by Laurie Penny about the ratio of men and women in parliament, and the "Brexit Bunglers" headline on the cover.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues on topics including an interview with British Labour Party activist Jon Lansman, the impact of reproductive technologies on the society in the May 13 issue and charity shops in the May 20 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "How Islamic is Islamic State?" by Mehdi Hasan in the March 6, 2015 issue, "Out of the Ordinary" by Helen Lewis in the March 6, 2015 issue, and the NS Essay by Elizabeth Pond in the February 27, 2015 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article by Jackson Lears about Hillary Clinton's potential U.S. presidential candidacy in 2016 in the February 5, 2015 issue.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to items in previous issues including the poem "A Silent Speech by Julia Gillard" by Clive James, a "Politics Interview" with British politician Margaret Hodge, and "Real Meals" by Will Self, all in the November 28, 2014, issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article by Colin Kidd about Keith Joseph's speech in the December 3, 2009 issue.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to an article by Bruce Ackerman about Great Britain's Supreme Court in the March 8, 2007 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including an essay by Jacqueline rose on Marilyn Monroe in the April 26, 2012 issue, Rudolf Vrba's memoir in the April 26, 2012 issue and essays by historian Carlo Ginzburg in the April 26, 2012 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the September 22, 2008 issue including "The scapegoat," "Jim's lesson for Gordon Brown," and "Empowerment--the new political territory."

Presents letters to the editor. Reader response to the August 1 article, "Why Britain is great," and what it means to be British; Criticism of the July 25 article "Blair's bombs," by John Pilger and the August 1 article by Andrew Billen, "The Power of Nightmares"; Comment about Tony Blair's decision to invade Iraq. INSET: New statesman vote.

Presents letters to the editor in response to articles in previous issues of the "New Statesman." Comments on "When parents are the best teachers" in the Jan. 10 issue; Response to "Scaring people is not wrong" in the Jan. 10 issue; Reaction to "A very British sickness" in the Jan. 10 issue; More letters.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues, including "Declawing the Crab" by Adrian Marston concerning cancer treatment in the November 22, 2013, issue, "Grammar schools fail poor pupils" by Tim Wigmore in the December 13, 2013, issue, and an "In the Red" article by Laurie Penny on regulation of electronic cigarettes in the December 6, 2013, issue.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues, including the article "What makes us human?" by Roger Scruton and Marina Benjamin's review of the book "Red Love" by Maxim Leo, both in the September 20, 2013, issue, and an "Observations" article by Laurie Penny concerning British Conservative Party politician Iain Duncan Smith in the September 13, 2013, issue.