Solution to 2567: Stop!
The unclued lights (including the pairs at 2/14 and 12/36) are names of organ stops which Brewer calls ‘music in…
How to run a school
Taking a short break from persecuting Roman Catholic faith schools for ideological reasons, Ofsted has stuck the boot into the…
Cosy crime
In Competition No. 3263, you were invited to submit a short story, written in the style of a cosy mystery…
Who will Liz forgive?
Liz Truss has always been more popular with Tory party members than with Tory politicians. The moment of greatest peril…
A week in Torquay
Hats off to Harry Grieve, who took clear first place at the Chessable British Championships which concluded in Torquay last…
Herd mentality
Cow attacks are no laughing matter
A mini art form
It sounds disingenuous, not to say dis-respectful, but as a writer of 40 books, give or take, I never read…
Quite an education
Ukrainian schools are starting to re-open, but will they be safe?
Under a bad moon
Million-selling rock bands are rarely happy families. They are an uneasy combination of a creative alliance and a business partnership,…
Dirty dogs
The dangers and distortion of yoga
Foul play in Ferrara
There’s a moment near the end of Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue ‘My Last Duchess’ when it becomes clear that the…
Letter from Bangkok
I moved to Bangkok ten years ago in order to be in a place where nothing happens, where no one…
The spirit of beauty
Shelley, walking as a boy through his ‘starlight wood’, looking for ghosts and filled with ‘hopes of high talk with…
Lockdown: the inside story
Rishi Sunak on the fear messaging — and the questions that weren’t asked
Feeding the world
The Shetland Islands and the Faroes may seem to be somewhere out there in distant waters, marginal and in the…
Diary
She’ll never do it. She’d have to be mad. Why take the risk? That’s what everyone said when I announced…
Keeping up with Jena set
Frances Wilson describes a group of self-obsessed intellectuals united by mutual loathing in a small university town in the 1790s
Continental drift
When will the West start to deal with Africa on its own terms?
The self-employed should be wary of Albo
September is ‘cuddle’ month for unions, employers, and the Albanese government. The soirée for the 100-or-so ‘stakeholders’, also known as…
The FBI search warrant is no slam dunk against Trump
At first read, the newly released Mar-a-Lago search warrant reveals little, with about half its pages redacted. It does suggest…
Zuckerberg’s curious confession
Well, there you have it. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has confirmed that Facebook did indeed censor news of the New York Post’s 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story.…
Victoria’s choice: rail lines or the health system?
Victoria’s health system is in crisis and must be fixed. And because we are heading for record debt of $170bn,…
An energy price freeze is a very bad idea
The confirmation of the huge jump in the Ofgem cap on domestic energy bills in October, and forecasts of even…
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Brown study
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