Out of the book
Last week we saw the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen taking a leaf from Alekhine’s book to destroy eccentric opening…
No. 407
White to play. This is from Pacher-Radnai, Budapest 2016. How did White exploit a tactical opportunity to make a decisive…
Post mortem
In Competition No. 2946 you were invited to supply a verse obituary of a well-known person who has died in…
2259: Eco
The unclued lights (one of two words) can be preceded by the same word which is hidden in the completed…
To 2256: 11 x 11
The unclued lights reveal ELEVEN (five English and six Scottish) league football teams (3/38, 4/1D, 10, 14, 18, 18/28, 19,…
Tea and honesty
Social instincts honed in earlier times still have a huge, irrational pull on how we do business
Your problems solved
Plus: bad behaviour at a Sunday lunch for friends and neighbours; and a hearing aid addendum
Labor-lite
Scott Morrison’s first budget, delivered last Tuesday, was the Turnbull government’s opportunity to grasp the nettle and finally lay out…
Aux bien pensants
Is keeping Christopher Pyne in Parliament and Malcolm Turnbull in The Lodge really worth over-spending $50 billion on a fleet…
Diary (Part II)
On the day I left Australia after an enjoyable month at the Centre for Independent Studies, the Guardian newspaper (which…
Sinking in SA
The submarine decision is yet another example of how far South Australia has been submerged by welfarism
Conservative notes
I’m not going to survive much more of this Republican Primary. It’s not the infighting, the blowharding, or the underhandedness…
Wednesday Lily and Otto by Myriam Kin-Yee
To be celebrating the 200th anniversary this year of the Royal Botanic Gardens is quite astounding. Just 28 years after…
The sentimental socialist
Having done something similar myself, I wondered how Bill Shorten would handle the challenge of a campaign biography. My book,…
Australian letters
Mad and bad Sir: I suspect that Gary Johns is correct in his assertion that Anders Breivik was having a…
Spectator Australia Wine Club – May
I’ve often wondered what Australia would today be like if the Comte de Lapérouse had landed at Botany Bay a…
