To the maddest max
And even if you resist, the film’s unswerving pomposity will batter you into submission
The lying game
Plus: Channel 4’s The Island With Bear Grylls has some interesting things to say about gender differences
The lives of others
Plus: on the trail of the Anglo-Indians who’ve lived all their lives on the subcontinent but still feel British and what’s it like inside Grayson Perry’s head?
Shakespeare’s duds
Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, even Midsummer Night’s Dream, all deserve to sink
High life
No more European superstate, no more dominance from Brussels, no more foreign judges issuing left-wing human-rights ukases
Low life
From the North Sea, with a bunch of elderly snobs, to the Caribbean with 3,000 Americans on the Atkins diet
Long life
The bombshell result jostled for prominence with statistics about Italian penis enlargement operations
Bridge
The best EBU tournament of the year is, IMHO, the Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held at the beginning of May in…
Hypnotism
During the World Championship qualifier of 1959, grandmaster Pal Benko wore dark glasses to counter the hypnotic gaze of his…
No. 362
White to play. This position is from Tal–Benko, Candidates 1959. Black has just advanced with … e5, attacking the white knight.…
Gizza job
In Competition No. 2897 you were asked for a job application by a well-known writer, living or dead. Inspiration for…
2211: Toddler hero
Clockwise round the grid from 37 runs a quotation plus its source (3,3,5,8,8,5,2,3,6,2,3,4) suggesting the outcome of 2. Remaining unclued…
To 2208: MORT
The fictional SCHOLAR (28) was Billy Bunter, described by his creator, Frank Richards, as a ‘FAT GREEDY OWL (22A/31/26)’ (in…
Consider this…
Do not tick the box: stop the Aboriginal industry My father was born in 1903 at Tooan East in the…
Australian notes
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the…
