No. 340
Black to play. This position is a variation from Anand-Carlsen; World Championship, Sochi (Game 1) 2014. Can you spot Black’s…
Concrete poem
In Competition No. 2873 you were invited to submit a poem in praise or dispraise of a well-known building. It…
2188: Pieces of eight
Each unclued light is somehow related to a clued one. Elsewhere, ignore an acute accent. Across 4 …
To 2185: Over the sea
The unclued are locations on SKYE, ‘The Misty Isle’ (solutions at 15 and 31). ISLE does double duty in 15/31…
Was this man really worse than the Taleban?
Neil Lyndon was hounded out of polite society. Islamists are treated rather more gently
Cricket must return to Pakistan
The reception for the first major nation to come back here will be fantastic. The whole region will benefit
Station to station
Lopesan Costa Melonoras Resort Spa and Casino is in Spain, but the timing is German. It exudes gloom. It smells of peas
Incident
Incident as something that simply happens has been in use since before Defoe’s time. But it has meanings unsought by managers of building sites
Culture buff
Jane Turner is to play a mother with a difficult daughter. No, it’s not a stage version of Kath &…
Business/Robbery etc
No wonder so many Australians, from those with modest incomes to the very rich, now prefer to satisfy their compulsory…
Breaking Republicans hearts
Fifteen years ago ordinary Australians gave a two-fingered salute to the nation’s inner-city elites
G’day G20
Where the United Nation’s tends to wallow in popstar navel-gazing, climate change self-flagellation and tedious bouts of Israel-bashing, it is…
Australian Diary
‘Australia – love it and leave it’ says my t-shirt. The good news is that kindly sponsors are flying me…
Railway Notes
Home on the farm, or so it is meant to be this year but of late it has been everything…
Australian Notes
Right and proper that generous tributes are paid at a memorial service, even if sometimes undeserved or exaggerated. But what…
Genocidal thoughts
It takes a certain type of courage for a writer to complete a book and then admit that he does…
Un-Beaton
The odds were a hundred to one against him. Brought up in bourgeois Bayswater by genteel parents, Cecil Beaton was…
Goodman’s Garden
Where did they all go? Thickets of love and pain rustle in a dry light and skeins of corvidae traipse…
Title Stories: Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
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Station to station
Atlantico is a vast buffet inside the Lopesan Costa Meloneras Resort Spa and Casino in Gran Canaria. The Lopesan Costa…
Cricket must return to Pakistan
In a tiny courtyard just off the teeming alleys of Lahore’s old town, a young Pakistani boy in a gleaming…
