No. 360

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Black to play. This is from Short-Polgar, Madrid 1995. Judit Polgar is the strongest female -player ever, with an overwhelming…

Eating poetry

2 May 2015 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2895 you were invited to submit a poem describing a meal with a well-known poet. Sylvia Fairley…

2209: Safe-blowers

2 May 2015 9:00 am

The unclued lights (two of two words) are to be linked with one of the clued lights in translation. All…

To 2206

2 May 2015 9:00 am

The thematic unclued lights (4D, 20D, 34D, 40A and 41A+27A) are COUNTRIES, and the other unclued lights are their anagrams,…

Reuniondues

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Shame, really. He’d have loved the headmaster of Harrow’s jokes

Battle for Britain

2 May 2015 9:00 am

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Come on you blues. Or, er, reds

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Politicians and football — it’s a minefield

Dear Mary

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Pretend to allow them to pay

Square meal

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Tourists inhabit a different city. This is a good place from which to watch  it

Quarter

2 May 2015 9:00 am

And Buckingham Palace doesn’t make the fume-filled streets near Victoria into a ‘Royal Quarter’

Cover 2 May 2015 AU

2 May 2015 9:00 am

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Australian notes

2 May 2015 9:00 am

It will get worse before it gets worse… This is how the head of French intelligence described the current state…

Local hero

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Some of us habitually quote Orwell’s correct comparison of producing first-person prose to ‘dosing yourself with some … very deleterious…

Useful idiots

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Tony Burke and Tanya Plibersek are laying down the ‘welcome’ mat for Islamist terrorists to take over the West Bank,…

Sympathy for the devil

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Our moral decline should not include empathy for child molesters

May day! May day!

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Tony Abbott will be in trouble if he doesn’t heed the lessons of two imminent elections where Conservatives are floundering

Culture buff

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Sensible birds fly to the warmth in the winter. Humans, not being birds and not always sensible, have to make…

London notes

2 May 2015 9:00 am

I can see the London Eye from my hotel room, but for a panicky, hungover moment this morning I thought…

Anzac Diary

2 May 2015 9:00 am

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

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Islamist terrorists prey on the vulnerabilities of the adolescent mind and the clash of cultures

Star Chamber Wars

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Margaret Cunneen SC has fought a lonely battle against dark forces within our criminal justice system

Sum total

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Midnight to dawn adding one more to the serial tally, love and irritation carried over, borrowed and paid back, all…

This is May

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…

Marseille

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

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

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

The soot sunk clouds have gone — to blacken someone else’s landscape. The tugging, ripping, girl-fight wind that stole the…