One dead in Ohio
For the first time in living memory, a presidential candidate for a major party has received the enthusiastic endorsement of…
Too much glam
This mighty volume begs a question, although it doesn’t ask it, let alone answer it. Does anyone in the known…
Free love’s fallout
Ann Patchett’s new novel is an American family saga involving six children, 50 years and too many coincidences to count.…
Books & Arts Opener
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Interest rates have been too low for too long
Central banks are still keeping interest rates at rock bottom. When the 2007-8 financial crisis struck, reducing interest rates was…
Power plays
All eyes are on North Korea. Not as an investment opportunity, I hasten to say, but as a nuclear threat,…
Techniques to beat the market
To say that we are in some kind of ‘new normal’ investment environment barely does justice to the surreal state…
History’s handwritten treasures
The collection and display of the written word has long been a symbol of prosperity and prestige. From the Great…
Cover October 2016 Money
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Croatia
Advocates of New Zealand often boast that the country is like Britain was in the 1950s. This is all well…
Rigan wizard
Mikhail Tal, the Wizard from Riga, was one of the most devastating tacticians in the history of chess. His rise…
No. 428
Black to play. This position is a variation from Gelfand-Mamedyarov, Tal Memorial Blitz 2016. Black has various strong moves but…
If
In Competition No. 2967 you were invited to submit an article written by the author of your choice under the…
Dear Mary
Q. When an invitation to shoot arrives in the autumn, I have a sense of both excitement and dread. The…
Pens, sex and potatoes
I hoped that Bronte would be filled with Victorian writers licking ink off their fingers and bitching about Mrs Gaskell…
Deadly silence
There was a time when the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo would have featured strongly in political debate in Britain. Just…
High life
Although my birthday was in August, I chose the rather melancholy autumnal moment of September to celebrate it — mourn…
Long life
Every threatened species of wildlife can count on the friendship of a member of the British royal family. There are…
Long life
Every threatened species of wildlife can count on the friendship of a member of the British royal family. There are…
Low life
I stood in front of the mirror in the £61-a-night hotel room in Paddington, buttoned my polyester dinner jacket and…
Low life
I stood in front of the mirror in the £61-a-night hotel room in Paddington, buttoned my polyester dinner jacket and…
Ash
Home is where the heart is, but some poor languages have no word for ‘home’. For them, home is where…
Real life
‘If you ask me,’ said the builder boyfriend, watching me hobble down the street as we set off for an…
Eddie Howe for England
The name of Jozef Venglos won’t mean much to most of us apart from a few Aston Villa completists with…
