Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, proposed reaching net zero in 2050 ‘in a better, more proportionate way’ such as by…
Barometer
Within limits Do 20mph speed limits save lives? – A 2018 report by Atkins/AECOM/UCL found that 51% of motorists conformed…
Letters
Whose victory? Sir: Politicians are often accused of engaging in doublespeak, and I fear in the case of Boris Johnson’s…
Solution to: 2620: The right name?
8A/31D, 23A/19D and 36D/7D are eponymous 29D/12A characters. 7D originally suggested D’Urberville, which needed to be changed to DURBEYFIELD, making…
What if David Cameron had been offered EU ‘associate membership’ in 2016?
It can’t be coincidence that led Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron to unveil their proposals for a new class of…
Biden time
As Napoleon is reputed to have said, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. So why are…
Barometer
Get out of jail There were 8 prison escapes in the year to March. All were recaptured within a month.…
Councils of despair
Last month India managed to land a spacecraft on the moon for a third of the price of refurbishing Hammersmith…
Taxing times
No. 10 quickly asserted that the meltdown at National Air Traffic Services was a technical issue rather than a cyber…
Letters
Murder mystery Sir: I once made a diagnosis of a very rare condition too late to cure the patient. She…
Hot air
Next Tuesday, London’s Ulez scheme will be expanded. A new network of cameras filming the traffic movements of millions of…
