‘Above all else, fun’

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Alexander Chancellor’s ‘Long Life’ is over; but it was not nearly long enough. I was feeling rather gloomy last Friday,…

Jaipur Notebook

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Did Winston Churchill, like Donald Trump, also like to ‘grab them by the pussy?’ Last week at the Jaipur Literary…

Abandoned to their fate

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Another day in northern Nigeria, another Christian village reeling from an attack by the Muslim Fulani herdsmen who used to…

The man from nowhere

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Before the horrified gaze of its militants, the French Socialist party — which has been a major force in French…

British placenames

4 February 2017 9:00 am

British placenames are so good you can read the map for entertainment rather than navigation. Hardington Mande-ville, Bradford Peverell, Carlton…

Surviving Trumpworld

4 February 2017 9:00 am

While he was on the campaign trail, Donald Trump was asked an intriguing question by Bob Lonsberry of WHAM 1180…

The Battle for Britain

4 February 2017 9:00 am

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Bridge

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Not surprisingly, Reykjavik has become a tourist destination again. Delicious restaurants, all those geysers and, if you’re lucky, the Northern…

Serendipity

4 February 2017 9:00 am

My two previous articles dwelt on Richard Réti’s introduction of the so-called hypermodern systems. Characterised by the double fianchetto of White’s…

no.442

4 February 2017 9:00 am

White to play. This position is from So-Wojtaszek, Wijk aan Zee 2017. White has only one move to win. Can…

Creature discomfort

4 February 2017 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2983, an assignment inspired by W.W. Jacobs’s macabre mini masterpiece ‘The Monkey’s Paw’, you were invited to…

2295: Juicy

4 February 2017 9:00 am

An unclued light is a name shared by two persons, one of whom is fictional. Remaining unclued lights give names…

to 2292: Discovery

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Thematic names are 1A/22 and 25/34, author of The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure…

Dear Mary

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Q. My granddaughter has asked to use our barn for her 21st birthday dance in June. We can only sleep…

Vanity project

4 February 2017 9:00 am

The Waverly Inn is the house restaurant of Vanity Fair magazine in New York City. It is part-owned by Graydon…

High life

4 February 2017 9:00 am

When I saw an email from Lucy, the lady who has the unenviable task of editing my copy each week,…

Low life

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Dr Mindlin called. I needed cheering up? If I fancied a week in Antigua as his guest I should be…

Italianglish

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Waiting for my husband in a Rome hotel, I was reduced to reading some of the weekend newspaper supplements. The…

Real life

4 February 2017 9:00 am

As if by magic, a sign that I am doing the right thing by moving out of London arrived in…

Should Many Clouds have been racing last Saturday?

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Few things in sport are more thrilling than a great racehorse giving its all. That’s why the death of that…

Rebel with a dodgy cause

4 February 2017 9:00 am

I feel conflicted about Jon Platt, the parent at the centre of the court case about unauthorised school absences. On…

The turf

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Away from frosty Britain, lecturing my way across the Atlantic to Rio de Janeiro, life has been dominated more by…

Nero’s tips for Trump

4 February 2017 9:00 am

A Washington Post interview with ‘senior officials’ in the Trump White House reveals that ‘Trump… feels demoralised that the public’s…

Barometer

4 February 2017 9:00 am

Trump’s rivals More than 1.7m people signed a petition on Parliament’s website demanding that Donald Trump’s state visit be cancelled,…

Diary

4 February 2017 9:00 am

 ‘A Bill to confer power on the prime minister to notify, under Article 50(2)…’. When it comes to the House…