Life
Bad sex award
In Competition No. 2924 you were invited to submit a ‘love scene’ from a novel that dampens rather than boosts…
Dear Mary
Q. I work in the London art market. Often, when I run into a fellow dealer and ask how they…
Guinness and oysters — or beef and Haut-Brion — in deepest Ireland
We were talking about the West of Ireland and agreed that there were few greater gastronomic pleasures than a slowly…
High life
Blind is an indie movie that has an original screenplay by John Buffalo Mailer and is directed by his older…
How the Germans made Glyndebourne
This is hardly the time of year for picnics on the lawn, but I have nevertheless had a week dominated…
How the Germans made Glyndebourne
This is hardly the time of year for picnics on the lawn, but I have nevertheless had a week dominated…
Low life
The car: a ’06 rosso red Seat Ibiza 1.9 TDI Sport, bought three weeks ago from a man who had…
Low life
The car: a ’06 rosso red Seat Ibiza 1.9 TDI Sport, bought three weeks ago from a man who had…
‘Clean eating’ is a great word of the year… for 1906
The word of the year, according to Collins, the dictionary people, is binge-watch. It means to watch DVDs consecutively or,…
Real life
I got on a bus. Well, I wasn’t to know, was I? I just saw a bus stop by the…
Are we looking at the end of liberal democracy?
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/parisattacksaftermath/media.mp3 As a graduate student in the Harvard Department of Government in the late 1980s, I became slightly jaded…
Are we looking at the end of liberal democracy?
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/parisattacksaftermath/media.mp3 As a graduate student in the Harvard Department of Government in the late 1980s, I became slightly jaded…
Does HS2 pass the Butterfield test?
Despite my opposition to High Speed 2, I am quite a big fan of HS1, the line which runs from…
The Kenyan night is like a busy shipping lane, but silent
Night falls like a fire curtain at seven and I go to bed not long afterwards, serenaded by bullfrogs after…
Bridge
Bravissimo! The Italians have won gold yet again at the European Champions Cup. The event was launched in 2002, and…
High life
Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it, tweeted Jon Ronson, a man I’d never heard of until…
Low life
My sister has a new man in her life: Henry, 60. He lives in a gay hotel. Or rather, it…
Real life
By the time you read this I will have delivered my long-awaited speech to the World Horse Welfare annual conference…
Long life
It is hardly uncommon for politicians to lie, especially when their careers are threatened by a sexual transgression — John…
Triumphant Twelve
Three personalities dominated the Flat season: Gosden, Dettori and Golden Horn. Victories for the trio in the Derby, the Irish…
Bridge
The EBU’s Premier League takes place over three weekends and decides who will represent England in next year’s Camrose (home…
Sporting chance
I was not quite sure whether to be annoyed or relieved about the recent High Court decision not to recognise…
No. 387
White to play. This position is a variation from A.Muzychuk-Dzagnidze, Monaco 2015. How can White finish off with a classic…
Martian poetry
In Competition No. 2923 you were invited to describe an everyday object, in verse, from the point of view of…
2237: Experimental
One unclued light is a publication (two words). The others are relevant figures (all in Chambers) who appear in a…
