Brown study
I am sorry to have to tell you this, but anarchists are not what they used to be. I reluctantly…
Consider this…
Greens determine Labor response The Australian Greens will determine the ALP’s response to the Trade Union Royal Commission. If Labor…
Australian diary
What a long Parliamentary year it has been. But at last, as the Senate clock approaches midnight on the last…
ICAC makes a (fake) tit of itself
NSW’s notorious Star Chamber is undermining the very causes it is meant to promote
Australian letters
Rule of law Sir: A few days ago former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, was sentenced to an 18…
Inappropriate
At this time of year, during the so-called ‘silly season’, it’s normally desperate journos who have to concoct preposterous stories…
Culture buff
Ceylon was the exotic setting for the opera The Pearl Fishers. It premiered in Paris in 1863; its composer Georges…
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
Cirencester
Everywhere you look in Cirencester there’s another animal: a cockerel, a hare, a sheep or a skulking lioness. I rather…
Abide with Me
Was our first date really a boxer’s funeral? You in pitch, me in black—all in all a noirish affair, how…
Winter’s tail
The London Classic, the end of the million-dollar Grand Tour, was something of a damp squib. A surfeit of draws…
Puzzle no. 390
Black to play. This is a variation from Carlsen-Grischuk, London Classic 2015. Carlsen won but this week’s puzzle shows how…
Nostradamus
In Competition No. 2929 you were invited to submit an acrostic poem containing some predictions for the next decade, in…
Your problems solved
Q. Although I have met most of the fellow occupants of my building at residents’ meetings, we don’t socialise. However…
That sinking feeling
The Feng Shang Princess is a floating Chinese restaurant on the Regent’s Canal in north London, which flows from Little…
Through the roof
When David Cameron said this week that he is worried his children would not be able to afford to buy…
High life
OK sports fans, what do Dame Vivien Duffield and Evelyn Waugh have in common? The answer is absolutely nothing, so…
