Lessons in sex
Helen Gurley Brown’s internationally influential career, as the author of Sex and the Single Girl and editor of Cosmopolitan, is…
Coping with a little John Howard
Once, long ago, I made the mistake of signing a change.org petition. I have received unwanted correspondence from them ever…
Kids’ stuff
When a new TV channel calls its flagship food show Fuck, That’s Delicious, we might surmise that the Reithian ideals…
But they should take the children away…
Despite the worsening crisis in indigenous child welfare, the Aboriginal industry is continuing to make the same misleading claims about…
All things bright and beautiful
For much of the Middle Ages, especially from 1250–1350, ‘English work’ was enormously prized around Europe from Spain to Iceland.…
Victorian notes
High farce and monstrous hypocrisy Earlier this year, I wrote in these pages that ‘Victorians are suffering under the most…
Head ache
Quite how one person is expected to oversee not just radio but also ‘arts, music, learning and children’s departments’ was…
David Hockney
Born in Yorkshire 79 years ago, he fell in love with the idea of California as a child via Hollywood…
Tal order
As I write, the Mikhail Tal Memorial tournament in Moscow is still underway. The Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri stormed into…
The terrible truth about staffers
Poor Jack Walker, probably soon to be an ex-adviser to Christopher Pyne. Not only has he and his eight Sydney…
Milo Yiannopoulos and the @Nero fallacy
Milo Yiannopoulos, the social media agent provocateur banned from Twitter for mocking the star of the oh-so-PC, all-female Ghostbusters remake,…
What was that about swaggering sophomoric staffers?
Long hours, bad coffee, average hotels and Virgin Lounge popcorn instead of a home cooked meal. It ain’t glamorous. It…
Letters
Studying grammars Sir: Isabel Hardman (Politics, 1 October) states that no reputable research backs up the belief that grammar schools…
Cover 8 October 2016
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Books & Arts Opener
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A pint of Landlord
Down a lane in Keighley, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, they brew the greatest ale in the world.…
Tal order
As I write, the Mikhail Tal Memorial tournament in Moscow is still underway. The Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri stormed into…
no. 429
White to play. This is from Tal-Botvinnik, World Championship (Game 12), Moscow 1961. Tal’s next move did not force an…
Creation story
In Competition No. 2968 you were-invited to take the title of a short story by Ted Hughes, How the Whale…
Dear Mary: Your problems solved
Q. A family of five from Brazil who are close friends of mine are visiting London next week. They have…
Eat, drink and be worried
We were surpassing Sydney Smith. His idea of heaven was pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. Our…
Where are the ideas?
The Conservative party conference in Birmingham this week seemed a remarkably relaxed affair. The European question has been settled. Seldom…
High life
New York Back in the Big Bagel once again preparing for the greatest debate ever, one that will decide the…
Long life
In olden days, before the internet arrived, shopping was quite simple. You’d go into a shop and buy something, and…
