Life
Scandals that make you switch off
Do any of us honestly have any idea how serious the Hillary Clinton email scandal was? I haven’t got a…
The Battle for Britain
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Overreach
Game eight of the World Championship in New York broke the deadlock of hard-fought draws in the first seven games.…
Chess puzzle
White to play. This position is from Rubinstein-Johner, Carlsbad 1911. How did Rubinstein gain a winning position with a standard…
The long view
In Competition No. 2976 you were invited to submit an extract of a speech in which a well-known figure from…
Dear Mary
Q. I don’t go to my club that often but the other day I found a letter there waiting for…
Bottle shots
This is something to be said for starting to celebrate Christmas before the end of the grouse season. It provides…
High life
Richard Spencer made the front page of the New York Times two days in a row last week, and earned…
Long life
Most people who die in Britain are now cremated — more than 70 per cent of them — but there…
Long life
Most people who die in Britain are now cremated — more than 70 per cent of them — but there…
Low life
My mother is a bore magnet. They travel from miles around to sit in the chair opposite hers and tell…
Low life
My mother is a bore magnet. They travel from miles around to sit in the chair opposite hers and tell…
They
‘When I asked the bank,’ said my husband, ‘they were no help at all.’ My attention was distracted from his…
Real life
‘How was your week?’ I asked my friend as we rode our horses to Bookham Common. ‘Fine,’ she said. ‘Except…
Snowflakes in the workplace
Last week I was asked to give a talk about generation snowflake. This was at a breakfast organised by a…
Snowflakes in the workplace
Last week I was asked to give a talk about generation snowflake. This was at a breakfast organised by a…
Scandals that make you switch off
Do any of us honestly have any idea how serious the Hillary Clinton email scandal was? I haven’t got a…
Bridge
It was the best hand I’d had all year — and what’s more, I picked it up while playing rubber…
The Battle for Britain
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Bridge
When I first started playing bridge, in the late Nineties, the Young Chelsea marathon was a continuous 24-hour tournament and…
no. 436
White to play. This is from Karjakin-Carlsen, World Championship, New York (Game 7) 2016. This position will be dead equal…
Changing fashions
In Competition No. 2975 you were invited to supply your own nine-line twist on Robert Herrick’s ‘Upon Julia’s clothes’: …
2288: Housey-housey
The unclued lights (ignore two apostrophes and an umlaut) are of a kind, as verified in Brewer. Across 1 …
to 2285: Characterful
The theme word was China, the Mandarin Chinese word for which is Zhongguo (the pinyin transliteration of 中国). Unclued lights…
Dear Mary
Last week I went for an interview with the Irish Guards. My father and his father were both in this…
