Poetry in motion
But Lloyd Evans encourages you to catch Stevie at the Hampstead Theatre - especially if you're old and female
Knuckle-headed
Kenneth Branagh's live-action remake of the Disney classic, while beautiful, is also dreary and insipid
Serial success
Plus: the sweet sounds of the Kalahari desert - and drunk Geordie clubbers - courtesy of Chris Watson
High life
The PC vipers are after Clarkson because they want to make all speech that they deplore into hate speech
Low life
The Man City v Barcelona match was punctuated by a discussion about the rights and wrongs of FMG
Real life
But I’ve come to my senses. I don’t want to stay friends with a former boyfriend who’s got himself a younger woman
Long life
Ed Miliband should have followed Boris’s lead and cultivated an exotic image in keeping with his unusual looks
Wild life
I thought of the spears of Ajax and Hector, points cleaving brains, skewering bone into bladder
Bridge
Janet de Botton and I decided to spice things up a bit at the Young Chelsea heat of the nationwide…
Caro can
The Caro-Kann Defence, 1 e4 c6, has always appealed to me. It has the advantage of staking a claim in…
No. 355
Black to play. This position is a variation from Ganguly-Vitiugov, Gibraltar 2014. The game started as a Caro-Kann and is…
End paper
In Competition No. 2890 you were invited to imagine that one of the major newspapers has ceased publication and provide…
2204: Security
In nine clues, cryptic indications omit reference to parts of answers; these parts must be highlighted, to reveal a definition…
2201: Facility
The words FAST FORWARD (given by letters added to definitions in clues) define 42 and 11, both indicating the way…
Why we lie to ourselves about opinion polls
Those who tweet favourable results aren’t trying to make them more likely; it’s something else
Looking for answers you can’t see
It’s cognitive bias that makes me blame myself for missing the M25
Australian notes
It was the only local meeting that I managed to get to in the NSW election campaigns. I expected the…
The totalitarianism of marriage equality
People should be allowed to freely express their opposition to gay and lesbian marriage
Election diary
It’s just six days before the Israeli elections. Bibi versus Buji and Tzipi. Labor’s Isaac ‘Buji’ Herzog and Hatnuah’s Tzipora…
