A law unto themselves
The journos weren’t very impressed with Nicola Sturgeon’s house. Never mind the plod staring like morons at her barbecue or…
Court with appeal
The Sessions Arts Club is a restaurant inside the Old Session House in Clerkenwell, a pale George III building where…
Bad behaviour
It would take a brave man to pick a fight with Roy Keane, and nobody could quarrel with his view…
Solution to 2597: A Couple
The couple were VICTORIA (23, 36, 37, 45) and ALBERT (2, 9, 17, 20, 46). 7 was the link. First…
2600: Pulling power
The unclued entries share a definition. Elsewhere, ignore an accent. Across 1 Chap primarily revered among classic characters (5) 12 Barrow…
How to mobilise the police
I wasn’t surprised to hear that six police officers raided a pub in Essex after a customer complained about the…
Chess pie
Chess pie was, in one sense, new to me when I started learning about it a few months ago. I’d…
Vegetarian
In Competition No. 3294, you were invited to provide the first 16 lines of an ode to a turnip or…
Help! I’m raising a snowflake
I am actively contributing to the decline of the West and to the collapse of our civilisation. I realised this…
Save Picasso!
‘Well, they can’t cancel Picasso.’ That was my optimistic take some months ago when a friend in the art world…
Letters
Too broad a Church Sir: I am not implacably hostile to Justin Welby; I share Christian empathy with the Archbishop’s…
