Life
Pleasure principle
In Competition No. 3320 you were invited to submit a poem extolling Epicureanism over Stoicism or the other way round.…
Aussie life
The death of actor David McCallum last week prompted me to google the theme music for The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,…
Language
A reader has asked me about the common expression ‘virtue-signalling’. The meaning, I think, is fairly clear. It is a…
Solution to 2622: Local call
The unclued lights are PUB NAMES which include the pair 38/31 First prize Mary Newbery, Devizes, Wiltshire Runners-up David Burnside,…
2625: Playtime
The unclued lights (one of two words) and four others clued without their thematic definition are of a kind. Across…
Party spirit
I feel old, and feelings are not always wrong, This eheu fugaces mood came on me at the Conservative party…
Competition
In Competition No. 3319 you were invited to supply a description of the house of a well-known figure from the…
The problem with empathy
Back in the 1970s, a less politically correct age, there was a standby formula for television advertising known as 2Cs…
I need a helping hand
I first realised something was wrong with my hand last Thursday evening. I’d been invited by a friend to go…
Aussie life
The word humble comes from the Latin humilis, or humus, meaning literally, soil or ground, a priest recently revealed in…
Language
Every so often I like to share with you new words being added to dictionaries. Dictionary.com has just added 566…
