Exit strategy
In Competition No. 2945 you were invited to suggest remarks guaranteed to get rid of a guest who is outstaying…
2258: Perimetrical jigsaw
Clues are listed in alphabetical order of their solutions. An 11-word quotation runs around the perimeter from the top left-hand…
To 2255: In the pink
Oscar WILDE (35) described hunting as THE UNSPEAKABLE IN FULL PURSUIT OF THE UNEATABLE (1A, 14, 30, 42), and the…
What if Murdoch owned the Beeb?
A new book says the left-liberal bias is so ingrained it would survive any change of ownership
A triumph for brutality
Plus: why Jamie Vardy: The Movie is having script problems, and the dazzling dancers of the Indian Premier League
Lost in Piccadilly
The Criterion in Piccadilly has a cursed location. It’s lucky I love rotting beauty
Australian letters
Cartoon charms Sir: Politics can grow stale and reviews be a matter of taste, but Spectator cartoons are a continual…
Shorten Barracuda
Australia’s newly commissioned Shortfin Barracuda submarines may as well be referred to as the Shorten Barracudas, because it is largely…
Brown study
I suppose I must be the only person in Australia who has read, re-read and underlined Niki Savva’s The Road…
G-G notes
Maybe it’s the sleeping monarchist in me – my Irish Catholic granny would be so ashamed – but wasn’t it…
Consider this…
Breivik: murderous fascist having a lend If a measure of civilisation is the absence of violence (see Steven Pinker’s The…
Australian notes
Irony of ironies: Abbott to save Turnbull? Putting Malcolm Turnbull in the Lodge has not worked out as the conspirators…
Artist’s impression of proposed new museum at Parramatta
There is an interesting article in the latest issue of Apollo, the international art magazine, a stablemate of The Spectator…
Sex offender
I saw Prince play once. I was bored rigid but couldn’t mention this to the girls I’d gone with: as…
Indoor gardening
A year or so ago, I inherited a cardboard box filled with plants. It was an offshoot from an enormous…
Evolution
World champion Magnus Carlsen takes much inspiration from the games of the former champion Emanuel Lasker. Lasker and Carlsen share…
