Life
Your problems solved
Q. Twice recently our host has clinked his glass, required us to stop relaxing and instead take part in a…
Send in the Alsatians
Islington is a bellwether, and also a joke: the most unequal borough in London, where social housing leans against £4…
High life
My old friend and one-time doubles partner Ray Moore has stepped down as chief executive of the Indian Wells Tennis…
Long life
The Parish Church of St Luke in Sydney Street, Chelsea, is enormous. Vaguely reminiscent of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, it…
Long life
The Parish Church of St Luke in Sydney Street, Chelsea, is enormous. Vaguely reminiscent of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, it…
Low life
While I was in Provence, my hostess and I went out one day for a walk in the hills. We…
Low life
While I was in Provence, my hostess and I went out one day for a walk in the hills. We…
Gender fluid
Benjamin Franklin thought that an excess of electric fluid gave rise to positive electricity, and a deficiency of the fluid…
Real life
After a year of affordable car insurance, I knew I had to be in for it when my premium came…
Reasons to be cheerful, parts one, two, three…
Well the sun is out, the sky is blue, and poor Boris Johnson is taking such a pounding from Matthew…
Why I’m uneasy about academies for all
As someone who believes in limited government, I feel conflicted about universal academisation. I’m a fan of the academies policy…
Why I’m uneasy about academies for all
As someone who believes in limited government, I feel conflicted about universal academisation. I’m a fan of the academies policy…
My Cheltenham misery
Everybody has their glory memory from Cheltenham this year. Some celebrate the extraordinary seven victories for the quietly confident Willie…
My Cheltenham misery
Everybody has their glory memory from Cheltenham this year. Some celebrate the extraordinary seven victories for the quietly confident Willie…
Bridge
Tom Townsend, my esteemed teammate and the Telegraph’s bridge correspondent, did the double last weekend at the London Easter Festival…
High life
On 17 November 1813, Marshal Ney, the bravest of the brave, had been the last to march out of Smolensk…
Low life
I shared a taxi from Cheltenham station to the house party in an outlying village with a stripper. Finding a…
Real life
If you are the sort of person who enjoys tinkering with a classic car prone to myriad mechanical problems then…
Long life
Apart from the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, I’ve never known what my human rights are…
Wild life
Laikipia ‘Awayoo,’ was how our head stockman Apurra said ‘how are you?’ in his texts from Pokot country, where I…
Bridge
Bridge players are a superstitious bunch. And I don’t just mean the steps they take to prepare for matches —…
Tal story
With the proliferation of modern opening theory and advances in knowledge of the game, I wonder sometimes if the kind…
No. 401
White to play. This is from Karjakin-Nakamura, Fidé Candidates, Moscow 2016. Hikaru -Nakamura has just implemented an ingenious combination to…
Seuss talk
In Competition No. 2940 you were invited to supply Dr Seuss’s take on the US presidential race. Given his taste…
2253: Your starter for ten
One ‘unclued’ light, as the title suggests, can be paired (on one occasion twice) with each of the other unclued…
