Can a nutter also be a terrorist?
When is a nutter not a nutter, but a politically motivated terrorist? And are those two states of being always…
To 2263: Hurry
Corrections of misprints in clues give STEP ON THE GAS, indicating the unclued lights in each of four columns in…
Bear baiting
Oh those Russians. When they’re not beating up English football fans, they’re cheating at the Olympics. They occupy other countries…
Misadventures in Libya
If photographs of ‘the deal in the desert’ made you queasy — you remember, Tony Blair and Muammar Gaddafi shaking…
A merry guide
If you have legs, or a bicycle, or indeed both, you are going to love this book. Chaps, no matter…
Cover 25 June 2016 AU
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Britain’s great divide
In Notting Hill Gate, in west London, the division was obvious. On the east side of the street was a…
A new home for Old Labour
On the eve of last year’s general election result, many pundits predicted the demise of Britain’s two-party system. The likeliest…
Blessed are the goalscorers
‘I am grateful to the gaffer for the opportunity and to God for letting me score,’ said Daniel Sturridge after…
Rage against the ‘Hate Machine’
During the third leaders’ debate, Bill Shorten warned Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull not to encourage ‘hate and homophobia’ by insisting…
The protective cloak of Islamophilia
I have a problem with the term Islamophobia, for its technical meaning translates as an irrational fear of Islam and…
Consider this …
Raise the age for compulsory voting I grind my teeth whenever I see bearded twenty-something men in their hipster gear…
Australian letters
Far from home Sir: Michael Davis defines conservatism as a sense of place and a love of home (Conservative Notes,…
Can you forgive him?
David Cameron bet everything on winning this European Union referendum. He lost. His resignation was inevitable, but the timing was not.…
Madeleine moments
I’d just heard (on catch-up) Jenny Abramsky (a former director of BBC radio) telling Gillian Reynolds (the esteemed radio critic…
Home alone
The Secret Life of Pets is the latest animation from Illumination Entertainment, which also brought us Minions and Despicable Me,…
Animal crackers
The other evening I was driving back in heavy rain from my pilates class when I noticed something rather upsetting…
Twists, turns and good red herrings
Jessie Burton’s first novel, The Miniaturist, set in 17th-century Amsterdam, read like a lantern-slide show. Her churches were by Pieter…
Paella
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Low life
Before dashing out of the door and driving to Nice airport, I gave my eyebrows a quick trim with the…
Long life
One of my first outings while recovering from a little stroke has been to the New London Theatre in Drury…
Bridge
The 53rd European Teams Championship started last week in Budapest, 37 countries competing in an 11-day complete round robin. The…
Jumbled up
‘In the end, nothing goes with anything,’ Lucian Freud remarked one afternoon years ago. ‘It’s your taste that puts things…
No. 214
Black to play. This is from Caruana-Mamedyarov, Gashimov Memorial Play-off 2016. Black played 1 … Kg8 here, missing a clever…
Goths
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