No. 360
Black to play. This is from Short-Polgar, Madrid 1995. Judit Polgar is the strongest female -player ever, with an overwhelming…
Eating poetry
In Competition No. 2895 you were invited to submit a poem describing a meal with a well-known poet. Sylvia Fairley…
2209: Safe-blowers
The unclued lights (two of two words) are to be linked with one of the clued lights in translation. All…
To 2206
The thematic unclued lights (4D, 20D, 34D, 40A and 41A+27A) are COUNTRIES, and the other unclued lights are their anagrams,…
Quarter
And Buckingham Palace doesn’t make the fume-filled streets near Victoria into a ‘Royal Quarter’
Australian notes
It will get worse before it gets worse… This is how the head of French intelligence described the current state…
Local hero
Some of us habitually quote Orwell’s correct comparison of producing first-person prose to ‘dosing yourself with some … very deleterious…
Useful idiots
Tony Burke and Tanya Plibersek are laying down the ‘welcome’ mat for Islamist terrorists to take over the West Bank,…
May day! May day!
Tony Abbott will be in trouble if he doesn’t heed the lessons of two imminent elections where Conservatives are floundering
Culture buff
Sensible birds fly to the warmth in the winter. Humans, not being birds and not always sensible, have to make…
London notes
I can see the London Eye from my hotel room, but for a panicky, hungover moment this morning I thought…
Anzac Diary
I am writing this diary from the Opera, not the theatrical sort, we are on a cruise ship anchored for…
Rebels with a jihadist cause
Islamist terrorists prey on the vulnerabilities of the adolescent mind and the clash of cultures
Star Chamber Wars
Margaret Cunneen SC has fought a lonely battle against dark forces within our criminal justice system
Sum total
Midnight to dawn adding one more to the serial tally, love and irritation carried over, borrowed and paid back, all…
This is May
The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…
Marseille
If you haven’t been lost in Marseille then you can’t have been there. As Alexandre Dumas wrote, this is a…
This is May
The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…
