Piers Lane
David Speers was irritated when Bronwyn Bishop spoke about the Sydney International Piano Competition when he wanted her to dish…
Hacks and robbers
Readers of advanced years like me will almost certainly remember the bow-tied figure of Edgar Lustgarten, star of any number…
Nonsensical
In Competition No. 2952 you were invited to submit nonsense verse of up to 16 lines on the subject of…
Get over it!
As someone who managed to move from enfant terrible to grande dame without ever being a proper grown-up, I must…
To 2262: Numbers game
The unclued Across lights are ANAGRAMS of French numbers (22: trente, 24: soixante, 26: sept, 29: onze, 43: trois) and…
The Battle for Britain
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Your problems solved
Q. My daughters and I were recently taking our seats on an aeroplane. From behind us came the recorded refrain…
Woolton’s war
In wartime the housekeeping is a nightmare. While fighting Napoleon in Spain the Duke of Wellington sent an infuriated letter…
Little England
In the art of insult, the sting lies in the adjective, no matter how derogatory the noun. So it is…
Cover 18 June 2016 AU
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Australian notes
The pundits keep telling us that this is a dull election. But imagine what it would be like without the…
Brown study
It would be odd if this column did not make some comment on progress in the federal election campaign which,…
The Super Debate (cont’d)
One of the joys of writing for this publication is that it is such a broad church. And that’s the…
Portrait of the week
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, threatened pensioners who voted in the referendum for Britain to leave the EU: ‘If…
Farm
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Alice
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Trans
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Tennis
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Restaurant
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Pooh
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MP
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Leningrad Lip
I had intended this week to write about the surprise surge by Mamedyarov which overturned all expectations in the elite…
The Redeemer
The political trigger for the Ring was the 1849 Dresden uprising, when the young freedom fighter Richard Wagner financed the…
Double speak
Tom Fletcher, a young star of the Foreign Office, made his reputation last year when he blogged his ‘valedictory despatch’…
Strange sightings in Essex
I suspect some readers might be too cool for this lovely book, partly because, despite its gothic horror set-up, it…
