Solution to 2455: Shadow boxing
The unclued lights are the four Labour MPs who stood for election as Labour’s leader to succeed Jeremy Corbyn: 11,…
The dream is over
It started when, the day after the announcement of some lockdown easing, I drove five miles along the coast road.…
Lockdown lit
In Competition No. 3149 you were invited to tweak an existing book or poem title for lockdown and provide an…
Diary
The choir of Notre Dame made a recording of Howard Goodall’s beautiful version of Psalm 23. Unlike cathedral choirs here…
Steinitz Memorial
I like a memorial tournament. It’s true that the champions they celebrate may be less skilled than their modern counterparts.…
High life
Gstaad The staff are back and all is well, as they used to say long ago in faraway places. The…
Beating the cheats
On 6 May 2010 the eurozone crisis was tearing through the continent. Greece was bankrupt, and it looked as though…
The long and the short and the tall
The French have a love-hate relationship with heroes. For the great 19th-century historian Jules Michelet, the French Revolution was supposed…
The wonder of Wodehouse
Everyone knows a Lord Emsworth. Mine lives south of the river and wears caterpillars in his hair and wine on…
Let’s blame China
This article is in The Spectator’s June 2020 US edition. Subscribe here to get yours. Is Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to…
Biden’s mental frailty makes him a Teflon candidate
President Trump gets away with a lot because much of the world thinks he’s a buffoon. Former vice president Joe…
Hong Kong’s ‘one country, two systems’ is over
The Chinese Communist party made an announcement yesterday which effectively ends ‘one country, two systems’ in Hong Kong, and in…
Britain’s post-Brexit trade plan could be a missed opportunity
The economic argument for free trade is politically more important than ever. A drift towards the use of tariffs and…
Taiwan’s balancing act is becoming ever more precarious
After a landslide victory in January’s election, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen was re-inaugurated on Wednesday at a scaled-down ceremony in…
Pakistan’s ‘Islamophobia’ problem
Imran Khan has dedicated much energy to the plight of Muslims around the world. Now, his government has finally decided to…
Boris is convinced he’ll still get a Brexit deal
When coronavirus first struck, the assumption was that it would lead to an extension to the Brexit transition. After all,…
Six months out — who will win the Electoral College?
With just under six months to go, now is a good time to assess where things stand in the 2020…
Here comes Ukraine again
The news about Joe Biden from Ukraine has gone strangely unnoticed in most American media. Cockburn imagines that’s because everyone…
Why the time has come for national security hospitals
Catastrophes are sadly a part of life. Many cannot be prevented, but can at least be better handled than is…
Eden Monaro: will coronavirus campaigning skew the result?
The 2007 federal election was held in the early days of social media. Many a time when John Howard visited…
