Olympiad
The 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku, Azerbaijan, ended in a narrow victory for the USA. Having tied with Ukraine, the…
Pauline appeals! Elites in shock!
The reaction to Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech was a reminder that like Disraeli’s England, Australia is now two nations ,…
No. 427
White to play. This position is from Heredia-Videnova; Women’s Olympiad, Baku 2016. Can you spot the White continuation that enabled…
Over-crowded upper house
Watching the circus that was the Republican convention to endorse Donald Trump’s candidacy was enough to make Australian voters such…
2279: Where it’s at II
Four pairs of unclued lights suggest the constituent parts of a name (two words). Elsewhere, ignore three accents. Across 1 …
Ladies in Black
David Jones administration may be moving to Melbourne but that won’t worry Sydney: it knows where DJ’s really belongs. Reading…
to 2276: Iron Man
Clues with misprints were 16, 22, 24 and 34 Across and 2, 3, 6, 26, 31 and 36 Down. Corrections…
What’s right about Momentum Kids
Forgive me if I don’t get too worked up about Momentum Kids. For those who haven’t been following Labour’s internal…
How to make Brexit a success
Theresa May has promised to make a success of life outside the EU, but what will that really mean? Book…
Exhibition offer
Get last chance tickets to ‘David Hockney RA: 82 Portraits and 1 Still-life’ and a glass of wine for just…
Competition
Win a pair of tickets to see The Entertainer, interval drinks and and a pre or post show meal for…
RIP Reading Recovery
Thanks to NSW Education Minister Adrian Piccoli, the deeply entrenched, multi-million dollar Reading Recovery program will no longer be sacrosanct…
A lack of accountability is the biggest issue in Indigenous affairs
For too long governments have convinced themselves they are contributing to better Indigenous outcomes simply because they are spending money…
And in news just in from the inner-city…
From the latest e-mail missive from Melbourne Farmers Markets: Keep your veggies and leftovers fresh with BeeKeep. Beeswax coated cloth provides…
Factory fresh
To alleviate the pain for my brother and me of being sent back to boarding school, my mother would make…
Letters
Remote control Sir: Rachel Wolf argues that in education policy ‘the trend, from Kenneth Baker onwards, has been towards giving…
Surrey’s new rich
Surrey used to be where you came when you were rich but too polite to say so. It was quiet…
Labour of the negative
Reason, Hegel argued, advances by negation, each thought becoming more focused as it wrestles with its opposite. This ‘labour of…
Bursting bubbles
Ever since the great financial crisis, commentators have been prone to bubble-phobia: we are so frightened of-missing them that we…
My latest galloping obsession
It’s safe to say that until last year I’d never imagined that I might ride in a race. A real…
Appless victims
Can’t help wondering if Tinder and its ilk aren’t doing to prostitution what Uber has already done to black cabs…
Whiter than Wight
A young, professional and fundamentally mismatched couple, we had been dating for almost a year when I called things to…
Car of wonder
Back in the mid-Noughties the coat-maker Burberry shook off its rather soggy reputation for frumpy rainwear and reinvented itself as…
From château to jungle
We moved to Notting Hill by accident in 2012. A fruitless search of overpriced box rooms in Brixton led a…
Just suet!
I am standing outside my house in an apron and a pair of slippers, holding kidney offcuts in my hands.…
