Life

Long life

14 June 2014 8:00 am

Although I live in the country in Northamptonshire, I go to London often — almost once a week — and…

Bridge

14 June 2014 8:00 am

The final match in the second division of Young Chelsea’s London Super League was as exciting as it gets. Two…

Vlad the Impaler

14 June 2014 8:00 am

As I write, the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik is leading in the Norway tournament in Stavanger. The line-up is…

No. 318

14 June 2014 8:00 am

White to play. This is a variation from Karjakin-Grischuk, Norway 2014. What key move allows White to deal with the…

Paxmanic

14 June 2014 8:00 am

In Competition No. 2851 you were invited to mark Jeremy Paxman’s departure from Newsnight by supplying an extract from an…

I love Israel, so I’m allowed at least one bad joke about it

14 June 2014 8:00 am

I expect all of us have said something we regret at one time or another, but not everyone does so…

Battle for Britain

14 June 2014 8:00 am

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A new England

14 June 2014 8:00 am

A revealing handwritten letter emerged at the weekend from the England scrum half Danny Care, who wasn’t playing in the…

Dear Mary

14 June 2014 8:00 am

Q. I am the co-owner of a chocolate business which regularly receives requests for donations of goody bags and raffle…

The pall of the wild

14 June 2014 8:00 am

Fera is in Gordon Ramsay’s old cave at Claridge’s. His red and yellow room, like a ripped-off arm, has been…

Ombre

14 June 2014 8:00 am

My husband heard me in the kitchen exclaim: ‘What would I do without you?’ He curiously imagined I was referring…

The pall of the wild

12 June 2014 1:00 pm

Fera is in Gordon Ramsay’s old cave at Claridge’s. His red and yellow room, like a ripped-off arm, has been…

A new England

12 June 2014 1:00 pm

A revealing handwritten letter emerged at the weekend from the England scrum half Danny Care, who wasn’t playing in the…

Epsom delights

12 June 2014 1:00 pm

Watching the contestants parade at Epsom for this year’s Oaks, I remembered the great D. Wayne Lukas’s pronouncement on selecting…

High life

7 June 2014 9:00 am

Last week in the Bagel, and then London here I come. As I write, hundreds of thousands of Jews are…

Low life

7 June 2014 9:00 am

Then there was the time I took Sharon to the Pamplona bull run. She looked very fetching in the traditional…

Real life

7 June 2014 9:00 am

‘What is this, please?’ I said to the estate agent, as he showed me into the building site he was…

Long life

7 June 2014 9:00 am

Shirley Williams has a point when she says that Lord Rennard’s alleged harassment of four female Lib Dem colleagues was…

Bridge

7 June 2014 9:00 am

Have you ever been told by an expert that a bid you’ve made is foolish, badly judged or plain wrong?…

On the brink

7 June 2014 9:00 am

The last great tournament to have been completed before the outbreak of war in 1914 was St Petersburg, which saw…

No. 317

7 June 2014 9:00 am

Black to play. This position is from Mieses-Alekhine, Mannheim 1914. Can you spot Black’s subtle winning move in this endgame?…

Proverbial

7 June 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2850 you were invited to invent proverbs that sound profound but have no meaning. This was an…

2165: Not far off

7 June 2014 9:00 am

According to a quotation (in ODQ) by a person whose surname is an unclued light, an area of five letters…

to 2162: Stand in

7 June 2014 9:00 am

Superfluous letters in definitions form the phrase HOLD THE FORT. Thematically created entries at 5, 10, 17, 19 and 38 are defined…

How I joined the 99 per cent

7 June 2014 9:00 am

In The Wolf of Wall Street, there’s a poignant shot towards the end in which we see an FBI agent…