High life
New York Ms Geniece Draper is a Noo Yawker who has been in the news lately. She is a 40-year-old…
Portrait of the week
Home Rishi Sunak, aged 42, became Prime Minister. At the weekend Boris Johnson had flown back from a holiday in…
Letters
Sculpting a solution Sir: Noel Malcolm’s article ‘Relief fund’ (22 October) rightly suggests that legislators should consider the issue of…
Something special
A reliable metric for measuring pop success is hard to find these days, as Michael Hann noted in these pages…
Great British
Sir Keir Starmer told his party conference last month that a Labour government would within a year set up a…
The artist’s artist
Pity the poor curators of major exhibitions struggling to find fresh takes on famous masters. The curators of Tate Modern’s…
Fight club
Not all video games are war games but those that are do something deeply unpleasant to our brains, says Sam Kriss
Life of the party
A few days ago, when everything looked black, a small group of us were consoling ourselves over a couple of…
Losing their heads
Chess players tend to fidget while they think. They crack their knuckles, stir their coffee, and bounce their legs. I…
Solution to 2576: After Eleven
The unclued lights are names of the men who followed Armstrong and Aldrin (Apollo 11) in walking on the moon…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. I have a hatred of paper napkins – eating outside, they blow away; inside, people drop them on the…
Puzzle No. 726
White to play. Salov-Horvath, Groningen 1983. In this treacherous rook and pawn endgame, White found the only winning move. What…
The turf
When things went wrong in his days running the Daily Mirror, the scoundrel Robert Maxwell used to shout: ‘Which effing…
A milder winter
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February, German protesters lined the streets holding placards saying ‘Better a cold shower than Putin’s…
The horrors of lynching
Percival Everett’s 22nd novel The Trees was that rare thing on this year’s Booker shortlist: a genre novel. Only which…
At last, a PM I can look down to
Rishi Sunak’s victory is a testament to how much progress we have made on the equalities front. As recently as…
No more Mr Nice Guy
Volodymyr Zelensky is one of the few leaders of modern times whose charisma, determination and sheer cojones can be said,…
The give and take of friendship
Claudia FitzHerbert explores the complex bond between two remarkable writers in the interwar years
Is the Trump 2024 team taking shape?
Cockburn and his spies have been busy collecting gossip for you all week. James Corden’s bad attitude So apparently before…
Victoria’s infrastructure con job
Some things in life are just too good to be true: often we spot them, but sometimes we don’t. If…
Cultural safety and confusion training
‘What is a white person? And what is this “whiteness” you speak of?’ Since the full-day Cultural Safety and Respect…
