Life

The problem with grammar schools

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

By rights, I should be one of those Tories who is passionately in favour of grammar schools. After all, I…

When more data makes you more wrong

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

In a one-day international against Australia last year, Ben Stokes was dismissed for ‘obstructing the field’, a rule rarely invoked…

Bridge

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

Here’s a bridge tip you won’t find in a book — one which the wonderful Gunnar Hallberg gave me. You’re…

Real life

6 August 2016 9:00 am

One look at Grace when I went to get her in from the field, and I knew she had eaten…

A gold standard of cheating

6 August 2016 9:00 am

With the Olympics almost upon us our thoughts turn inexorably to the art of cheating. And while we should deplore…

Dear Mary

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Q. David and Samantha Cameron, their family and two armed policemen have moved to the house opposite us. Do you…

May day

6 August 2016 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2959 you were invited to submit a poem on a political theme entitled ‘May day’. There was…

Dustcart

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Are we seeing the end of dustcarts? I don’t mean that those noisy, noisome vehicles will cease roaring at the…

From cosy to crazy

6 August 2016 9:00 am

I spent last weekend at Port Eliot in Cornwall, the only summer festival I’d pay to attend. Indeed, I ended…

Battle for Britain

6 August 2016 9:00 am

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West End churls

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Piccadilly is ill-served by cafés, unless you consider House of Caviar a cafe. There is a Caffè Nero by St…

High life

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Gstaad   What is it with these baldies? I turned on the television last week and watched as the identical…

Low life

6 August 2016 9:00 am

After the death by boredom of the slow traffic jam, the agricultural-show field was an assault on the senses. The…

Long life

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Japanese housewives are so convinced of the value of office work that they get angry if their husbands come home…

Bridge

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Martin Hoffman is a hero. Now in his eighties, he can still analyse a hand faster than most people can…

Vikings on board

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Mark Hall, curator of the Perth Museum, has recently drawn attention to the proliferation of board games in Viking burials.…

No. 420

6 August 2016 9:00 am

White to play. This position is from Olafsson-Tal, Moscow 1971. How did White finish off? Answers to me at The…

2272: Holiday time

6 August 2016 9:00 am

In eight clues, cryptic -indications omit reference to parts of answers; these parts must be highlighted, to reveal two words.…

to 2269: Humiliation

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Answers to clues in italics are Clockwise (16), mondial (25), smugly (26), mushroomed (15) and pantable (32), each of which…

The turf

6 August 2016 9:00 am

Sometimes the labels people give themselves are more than mere braggadocio. Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali if you must) really was…

Battle for Britain

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

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Vikings on board

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

Mark Hall, curator of the Perth Museum, has recently drawn attention to the proliferation of board games in Viking burials.…

No. 420

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

White to play. This position is from Olafsson-Tal, Moscow 1971. How did White finish off? Answers to me at The…

May day

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

In Competition No. 2959 you were invited to submit a poem on a political theme entitled ‘May day’. There was…

Dear Mary

4 August 2016 1:00 pm

Q. David and Samantha Cameron, their family and two armed policemen have moved to the house opposite us. Do you…