Bridge
It’s one of the burning political issues of the day: why don’t more MPs play bridge? Two weeks ago, the…
Comedy of errors
For reasons unknown, the world championship in Sochi between Carlsen and Anand is turning into a catalogue of disastrous blunders…
No: 341
Black to play. This is from Korchnoi-Karpov, World Championship (Game 17), Baguio 1978. Can you spot Black’s winning coup? Answers…
Problem child
In Competition No. 2874 you were invited to submit a scene written by a well-known children’s author of the past…
2189: Offering
One unclued light is the name of a 15A activity requiring the 4A of three things. Answers to clues in…
2186: From the off
Unclued lights (11/1D, 12/35, 15, 18/1D and 22/17) are fences of the Grand National course, together with two famous winners…
I’m a celebrity, get me in there
Forbidden to ogle, forbidden to read – it’s no wonder these guys go nuts
The dark secrets that your clicks reveal
Online data reveals all kinds of things about us that we’d never say out loud. In some cases, best hope it’s wrong…
The real French embassy
Le Gavroche has done more than diplomacy ever could to justify the ways of France to Britain
An avalanche of achievements
Under what strange law of nature is it that the more successful a political party is, the further it slumps…
Abbott’s ‘Goldilocks’ balancing act
Following the G20, Australia finds itself in an unique and desirable position with the world’s two superpowers
Indian diary
Not your usual welcome. The duty manager at New Delhi’s Taj Palace Hotel greets me on arrival. Two sari-clad and…
Feminism: no longer a Left/Right divide
Now the Right have set up their own Feminist Club, much like the Left have. Ordinary women need not apply.
It’s the Stupid, stupid
Ironic Capitalisation of That Which You Do Not Like is apparently A Thing. You’ll forgive me for employing this Irritating…
Culture Buff
Andy Warhol is the star but Roy Lichtenstein is the master. That’s the quick take out of POP TO POPISM…
Everything is merde
For the Figaro journalist and TV commentator Eric Zemmour, whose Le Suicide français has been topping the bestseller lists in…
A choice of humorous books
Nancy Mitford would not call them ‘toilet books’, that’s for certain. Loo books? Lavatory books? One or two people I…
Title Stories: The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
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The Imagined Day
The imagined day includes sunshine and shopping And people saying Yes and being on my side. There’ll also be traffic…
Curatorial wrongs
The world exists and then it disappears, piece by piece, the gaps widening until one age is replaced by another,…
