Culture Buff

12 March 2016 9:00 am

Asked recently whether I thought Opera on the Harbour was really opera, I replied emphatically that it is. No one…

Time to stop this politicians’ rort

12 March 2016 9:00 am

The Senate voting reforms are essential to restoring democracy to our flawed system

Behaviour unbecoming

12 March 2016 9:00 am

Those bigmouths who have spilled the beans on office gossip and scuttlebutt do themselves no favours

New Zealand

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

On my first night in Christchurch, I woke at 3.32 a.m. to what felt like an explosion. My bed was…

Battle for Britain

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

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Bunratty

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

The tournament at Bunratty is Ireland’s premier chess competition and has been for several years. This year’s event, to which…

No. 399

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Black to play. This position is from Skulte-Pein, Bunratty 2016. Black’s queen is attacked. His next move didn’t force immediate…

Gray matter

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

In Competition No. 2938, to mark the tercentenary of Thomas Gray’s birth, you were invited to submit an ‘Elegy on…

Your problems solved

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Q. My niece, who came to stay with me in the country for the weekend, arrived without cash and asked…

A thirst for Justice

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a great common lawyer, was an adornment to the American Supreme Court. His wisdom is still…

Turkey’s blackmail

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Looked at from the narrow perspective of how to deal with the lethal business of human trafficking across the Aegean,…

High life

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

   Athens I am walking around downtown Athens watching as thousands of migrants field pitches from smugglers offering alternative routes…

Long life

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

I used to enjoy the ghost stories of M.R. James, but I’ve never actually seen a ghost or even believed…

Long life

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

I used to enjoy the ghost stories of M.R. James, but I’ve never actually seen a ghost or even believed…

Low life

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Nice airport was more or less deserted. Two-and-a-half hours early for the easyJet flight to Gatwick, I had a leisurely…

Low life

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Nice airport was more or less deserted. Two-and-a-half hours early for the easyJet flight to Gatwick, I had a leisurely…

Swastika

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

There is a nice row of swastikas at head height in Burlington Gardens, behind the Royal Academy. They are carved…

Real life

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

‘Racing is 99.9 per cent disappointment,’ said the trainer philosophically, as I sat in the yard sipping coffee, waiting for…

A new taste of Twitter nastiness

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Whenever I hear a leftie complain about being abused on Twitter, I think: ‘You should try being me.’ A case…

A new taste of Twitter nastiness

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Whenever I hear a leftie complain about being abused on Twitter, I think: ‘You should try being me.’ A case…

What’s the point of the driverless car?

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

A first last week: a Google driverless car in autonomous mode was partly at fault in a collision, interestingly one…

Governor Cameron and the Brussels empire

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU Commission, made a typically brilliant intervention in the EU referendum debate by arguing that…

Barometer

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Lonely fortress Weoley Castle in Birmingham was revealed to be the least-visited tourist attraction in England, with 5,205 visitors last year. What…

Diary

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

Have you ever set your face against a book? This year sees Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary and the novelist Tracy Chevalier…

Against Churchill

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

From ‘Colonel Churchill’, The Spectator, 11 March 1916: Colonel Churchill is being found out. The charm, once universal, no longer…