Face time
In Competition No. 3214, you were invited to choose a well-known painted portrait and let the subject speak for itself,…
Solution to 2519: Not so up-to-date
The unclued lights can all be preceded by OLD which is the clued solution at 49 Across. ‘Crocks’ at 5…
Puzzle no. 669
White to play. Swiercz–Xiong, Sinquefield Cup 2021. 1 Kxb2 allows a perpetual check. But forcing an exchange of queens would…
Effortless superiority
It was only in 1948 that the term WASP was coined — by a Florida folklorist, Stetson Kennedy. Yet White…
2522: A trifle
The unclued lights (one hyphened) have nothing in common. Across 4Author Henry’s daughter perhaps (not a son) making a…
Why raise tax to subsidise the wealthy?
When conservatives renege on election-time promises not to raise taxes, they tend not to be forgiven in a hurry. ‘Read…
Boris Johnson’s tax gamble
Will MPs go along with Boris Johnson’s social care plans? On Tuesday, the Prime Minister is expected to share his…
Scotland’s four-day week policy would be a disaster
A shock poll commissioned by the IPPR Scotland thinktank has revealed this week that more than 80 per cent of…
Boris could pay a big price for his flawed social care shake-up
Boris Johnson pledged to ‘fix the crisis in social care’ over two years ago. Next week, the Prime Minister is…
Ken Cuccinelli: Afghans flown to US ‘not being vetted’
Former Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli said Thursday that the United States has flown in thousands of Afghan…
Kiwis want elimination, and nothing but elimination
Yesterday, the New Zealand Herald published the findings of an opinion poll it commissioned as a wave of the Delta…
The Taliban didn’t beat America. Afghanistan did
The late Edward Said invented, or at least brought into vogue, the notion of Orientalism. For a time this became…
What’s woke this week?
The more I research stories from Wokeworld the more I conclude that they’ve just got to be pulling our collective…
In Gladystopia men can now be Woman of the Year
Based on biology and genetic makeup a woman is a woman and a man is a man. No longer, according…
Justin Trudeau’s election gamble is backfiring
In 1966, a year before Pierre Elliott Trudeau first blazed to power, the bard-poet Leonard Cohen published his second and final…
France’s provocateur is coming to London
Five years ago, London’s affluent French poured their dosh into the campaign of Emmanuel Macron. This time around, supporters of…
Scotland’s census sex muddle is bad news for transgender people
What is your sex? It is a simple question and one that we can all surely answer. When it comes…
Lockdowns: an alibi for government to shun scrutiny of neglect of public health preparedness
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1…
Could a left-wing coalition end up running Germany?
A spectre is haunting Germany — the spectre of the left. As Merkel’s Christian Democrats fall further behind in the…
Big Public Health flunks Tobacco Control 101 – yet again
Not so long ago, the best way for a non-law abiding Australian to make a lot of money was to…
The bribing of the New Zealand media?
“Trustworthy, insightful, important” — one thing we can say for our mainstream media is that they must think we are…
When will Twitter treat Biden like Trump?
With the conclusion of the disastrously-executed Afghanistan withdrawal, the attention of Joe Biden and his loyal media apparatchiks has turned to…
Is political correctness responsible for our radical reactions to COVID-19?
One of the great ironies of the Covid-19 pandemic is how consistent Western governments have been at providing inconsistent health…
