Bridge
Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. The European Championships in Tromso kicked off with a week of Mixed and…
Chinese cracker
I have a particular affection for Chinese involvement in mind sports. In 1981 I was invited as the first western…
No. 370
Black to play. This position is a variation from Hou Yifan-Kramnik, Dortmund 2015. Black is a rook down. What does…
I can see a rainbow
In Competition No. 2905 you were invited to write a sonnet whose lines begin with the letters R,O,Y,G,B,I,V,V,I,B,G,Y,O,R, in that…
2219: Keep going
Unclued lights (one of three words) are of a kind, as suggested by the title. Across 7 Mostly…
To 2216: Riddle
Films starring AUDREY HEPBURN (4 29) include MY FAIR LADY, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, SABRINA FAIR and ROMAN HOLIDAY in the perimeter, and…
Kyrgios is surely just what tennis needs
Plus: Rory McIlroy’s ankle and other great silly sports injuries
Your problems solved
Plus: Telling LOLs apart, avoiding flirts on the Caledonian Sleeper, and how to dodge a corsage
Greek disease
This week, Greeks voted to reject a tough debt deal imposed by the European Union and the German-dominated European Central…
Brown study
There seems to have been an awful lot of evolving going on in Canberra lately. This has been particularly evident…
Iranian bombshell
She may be the ayatollahs’ pin up girl, but Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is flirting with danger
Qui est Charlie maintenant?
Charlie Hebdo’s name has been hijacked by the very people ‘Charlie’ despised
A pox on both their houses
The hard right and the hard left are equally contemptible in many Jewish eyes
Consider this…
Save humans from Greens I visited the mid coast of NSW in recent days, staying in Kempsey, at the invitation…
Fromelles notebook
It’s a small but devoted group, the Friends of the 15th Brigade. Each year it gathers at the Melbourne graveside…
Culture buff
My 18-year old consultant can’t understand why I haven’t written a column about games – video and computer games, that…
Australian letters
Heavenly choir Sir: Having just read Christopher Akehurst’s article on Pope Francis’ recent Road to Damascus-like conversion to Gaiaism, he…
