Long life
Thousands of Londoners died in the Blitz; twice as many Americans are killed every year in gun-related incidents
Bridge
No doubt you have heard about the huge cheating storm that has blown up over the last 10 days. Here…
Bête noire
England’s top grandmaster, Michael Adams, exerts a powerful influence over the elite player David Navara. In rating terms Navara and…
No. 377
Black to play. This position is a variation from Maslak-Smerdon, Pardubice 2007. Black has powered through on the kingside. How…
Back to school
In Competition No. 2913 you were invited to submit an extract from the school report of a well-known author, living or…
2227: Word building
The unclued lights (one of two words and another hyphened) can be arranged to form a word pyramid of 3…
To 2224: All here
The unclued lights (paired at 14/38. 23/17 and 34/2) are SPECTATOR journalists or contributors. First prize Dr David Jerwood, Keighley,…
Comic relief
Mum’s has a faintly political manifesto on its menu, which could have been written by Mr Greedy from the Mr Men, with help from Noam Chomsky
Distraught and distracted
The law is straightforward. If you denigrate or demean the work of a Royal Commission, or indeed a Royal Commissioner,…
Australian notes
I had never met the Minister for Finance in NSW, Dominic Perrottet, and knew little about him when I went…
Consider this
Old industry cities get shafted Is it something in the water in Newcastle and Ipswich? Both cities grew from coal,…
Let’s just keep on voting until the plebs get it right
The Republican movement are up to their old tricks
The new wowserism
Thanks to the intolerant orthodoxies of the Left, ordinary conservative Australians are now moral larrikins
Joe for Prez
Now that the economy’s all done and dusted, it’s time to focus on the really important stuff - like an Oz Republic
Australian diary
On the eve of Germany’s reunification we were in the East German countryside and lunched in the small town of…
Brown study
The great reform summit has just ended and, as I predicted, was a complete waste of time. There were a…
