Life

Low life

18 June 2022 9:00 am

I’m house-sitting for the foreign correspondent while he attends the funeral of his beloved father-in-law Toto, the last of the…

Who knew Test cricket could be like this?

18 June 2022 9:00 am

Test cricket, bloody hell! For years, it’s been getting the last rites – now it’s the most exciting way anyone…

Child’s play

18 June 2022 9:00 am

Ave Mario looks like Clown Town, a soft-play centre in Finchley with a ball pit so large you could drown…

The Battle for Britain: Michael Heath

18 June 2022 9:00 am

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Rehash

18 June 2022 9:00 am

My husband put one foot forward atan angle to the other and grasped his left hand with his right. ‘Occiditmiseros…

Aussie life

11 June 2022 9:00 am

I have a confession to make. Despite voting for an Australian Republic in 1999, and despite making an ad arguing…

Scotch eggs

11 June 2022 9:00 am

One of the perils of being a recipe writer is that people regularly ask me why I bother making things…

Solution to 2556: Recent origins

11 June 2022 9:00 am

The unclued entries give the origins of elements 110-118 now named Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Copernicium, Nihonium, Flerovium, Moscovium, Livermorium, Tennessine and…

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11 June 2022 9:00 am

Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, ‘El Ajedrecista’, died in prison in the United States on 31 May. The Colombian drug lord, a…

Puzzle No. 706

11 June 2022 9:00 am

White to play and mate in 3. Composed by Sigmund Franz Josef Lehner, 1864. There are several ways to give…

Turkey

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Turkey has told the UN it wants tobe called Türkiye. Even when it is written in capitals, it would still…

2559: Platinum upgrade

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Reading clockwise around the perimeter are six theme words, in random order, one of which starts in square 38. The…

Not everything has to be a trade-off

11 June 2022 9:00 am

‘It is vital that we see a return to face-to-face meetings to foster the dynamic collaboration that creates breakthrough ideas.’…

Battle for Britain

11 June 2022 9:00 am

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Toasting the Queen

11 June 2022 9:00 am

It was an extraordinary weekend. The various spectacles had something for all tastes: pageantry on Horse Guards; solemnity in St…

Real life

11 June 2022 9:00 am

If I could ban one question ever being asked of me again it would be: ‘Are you on WhatsApp?’ I…

Dear Mary: Your problems solved

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Q. As a mildly famous professional cook, I agreed to judge a children’s cake-baking competition at the summer fête of…

Bridge

11 June 2022 9:00 am

I recently spent a long weekend in Lillehammer in Norway. Apparently it’s very charming, but frankly I have no idea:…

Low life

11 June 2022 9:00 am

‘But you look so well!’ How many times have I heard that lately. Kindly meant by most, but for a…

The turf

11 June 2022 9:00 am

In the absence on her Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty, such an avid Derby attender in the past, and following…

Vita and vino

11 June 2022 9:00 am

For Christmas Caroline bought me a ‘Deluxe GiftExperience’ at Chapel Down, the UK’s leading winery. I say ‘me’, but it…

High life

11 June 2022 9:00 am

Southampton, Long Island These are peripatetic times for the poor little Greek boy, up to the Hamptons for some sun-seeking…

Sorry effort

11 June 2022 9:00 am

In Competition No. 3252, you were invited to write a letter of condolence on the mis-fortune of an acquaintance which,…

Aussie life

4 June 2022 9:00 am

In last Saturday’s Weekend Australian, Professor Peter Sutton, an internationally recognised anthropologist and linguist, wrote ‘Indigenous identity has become such…

Language

4 June 2022 9:00 am

‘Bike shedding’ was coined by British historian and author C. Northcote Parkinson, famous for his book Parkinson’s Law (1957), but…