Life

High life

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Gstaad A naked, very good-looking young man skied down the mountain evoking shrieks of laughter and admiration from the hundred…

Low life

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Last week was the tenth anniversary of the last running of the English hare-coursing classic, the Waterloo Cup. I shan’t…

Real life

28 February 2015 9:00 am

My request to see my medical notes has sparked all-out panic at the GP surgery. ‘What do you mean?’ said…

Long life

28 February 2015 9:00 am

I went last week to see the justly praised production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers at English National Opera, and I…

Bridge

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Bridge players never get bored of each other’s company for one simple reason: interesting hands are like juicy bits of…

Gnomic

28 February 2015 9:00 am

The elite tournament at Zurich, which finished last week, has adopted a system for determining the ultimate trophy winner which…

No. 351

28 February 2015 9:00 am

White to play. This position is from Nakamura-Karjakin, Zurich classic 2015. White’s knight seems trapped but he can rescue it…

Londoner’s Diary

28 February 2015 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2886 you were invited to submit a Pepys’-eye view of modern life. Pepys’s candid and minutely observed…

2200

28 February 2015 9:00 am

The unclued Down lights (individually or as a pair) are of a kind in short, as are the unclued Across…

To 2197: Missing

28 February 2015 9:00 am

The unclued lights are some of the words highlighted in Chambers 2011 which were unfortunately omitted from the 2014 edition…

£67,000 is not enough for the brightest and the best

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Last year, I had an exchange with Hugo Rifkind on Twitter in which I bet him dinner at Clarke’s that…

Battle for Britain

28 February 2015 9:00 am

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Going the wrong way one step at a time

28 February 2015 9:00 am

If I were to give you a budget to choose your perfect house, you would quickly have a clear idea…

Dear Mary

28 February 2015 9:00 am

Q. I was not brought up in England and don’t appear in Who’s Who. This means that there is no…

A divided inheritance

28 February 2015 9:00 am

When we consider poets who perished before their day, thoughts turn to the Romantics or the war victims: Burns, Keats,…

Robust

28 February 2015 9:00 am

‘Heart of Oak are our ships, Jolly Tars are our men,’ shouted my husband unconvincingly. He has taken to doing…

A divided inheritance

26 February 2015 11:30 am

When we consider poets who perished before their day, thoughts turn to the Romantics or the war victims: Burns, Keats,…

Going the wrong way one step at a time

26 February 2015 11:30 am

If I were to give you a budget to choose your perfect house, you would quickly have a clear idea…

High life

21 February 2015 9:00 am

I hate to start with a cliché, but Count Arnaud de Borchgrave d’Altena, who died in Washington DC last week,…

Low life

21 February 2015 9:00 am

This hotel is brand new. One half is a university students’ hostel, the other an apartment hotel. Car parking is…

Real life

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Never add up your insurance premiums. I just did and the annual cost of all of them came to more…

Long life

21 February 2015 9:00 am

The gulf in understanding between the old and the young has widened with the news that the young are beginning…

The Bradstock mystery

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Some mysteries will never be solved, like why planes and boats disappear in the Bermuda Triangle, cats always land on…

Bridge

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Couples that play together stay together is not a mantra you hear too often in the bridge world. Indeed most…

Carlsen’s special brew

21 February 2015 9:00 am

Magnus Carlsen has added another trophy to his cabinet by taking the honours at the Grenke tournament in Baden Baden,…