Life
Low life
I stood in front of the mirror in the £61-a-night hotel room in Paddington, buttoned my polyester dinner jacket and…
2280: Acorns
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Ignore one apostrophe. Across 1 Top for one dining…
Bridge
TGR’s rubber bridge club is a bit like the set of your favourite soap. You have the regulars, of varying…
Eddie Howe for England
The name of Jozef Venglos won’t mean much to most of us apart from a few Aston Villa completists with…
No. 428
Black to play. This position is a variation from Gelfand-Mamedyarov, Tal Memorial Blitz 2016. Black has various strong moves but…
I know an anti-Tory pact won’t work
I appeared on Radio 4 with Shirley Williams recently and as we were leaving I asked her if she thought…
Pens, sex and potatoes
I hoped that Bronte would be filled with Victorian writers licking ink off their fingers and bitching about Mrs Gaskell…
High life
Although my birthday was in August, I chose the rather melancholy autumnal moment of September to celebrate it — mourn…
Real life
‘If you ask me,’ said the builder boyfriend, watching me hobble down the street as we set off for an…
The turf
There are few more compulsive reads in racing than the Kingsley Klarion, the in-house journal of Mark Johnston’s Middleham racing…
Rigan wizard
Mikhail Tal, the Wizard from Riga, was one of the most devastating tacticians in the history of chess. His rise…
If
In Competition No. 2967 you were invited to submit an article written by the author of your choice under the…
2277: Royalty
The theme word is KING and the pairs are 4/41, 14/1A, 19/27, 34/16 and 38/24. First prize C.V. Clark, London…
The Battle for Britain
The post The Battle for Britain appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to add? Join the discussion and comment…
Dear Mary
Q. When an invitation to shoot arrives in the autumn, I have a sense of both excitement and dread. The…
Ash
Home is where the heart is, but some poor languages have no word for ‘home’. For them, home is where…
Long life
Every threatened species of wildlife can count on the friendship of a member of the British royal family. There are…
The Battle for Britain
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Rigan wizard
Mikhail Tal, the Wizard from Riga, was one of the most devastating tacticians in the history of chess. His rise…
No. 428
Black to play. This position is a variation from Gelfand-Mamedyarov, Tal Memorial Blitz 2016. Black has various strong moves but…
If
In Competition No. 2967 you were invited to submit an article written by the author of your choice under the…
Dear Mary
Q. When an invitation to shoot arrives in the autumn, I have a sense of both excitement and dread. The…
Pens, sex and potatoes
I hoped that Bronte would be filled with Victorian writers licking ink off their fingers and bitching about Mrs Gaskell…
High life
Although my birthday was in August, I chose the rather melancholy autumnal moment of September to celebrate it — mourn…
Long life
Every threatened species of wildlife can count on the friendship of a member of the British royal family. There are…
