Murder in the mall
James Delingpole on BBC2's Terror at the Mall, one of the most gripping and important pieces of TV any of us are likely to see this year
Long life
I have high hopes for him — the time is ripe for a new approach to the political interview
Bridge
I don’t know about the only gay in the village but I am starting to feel like the last woman…
Highland fling
Recently Professor Jackie Eales gave a lecture in Canterbury on ‘Queenship in the Age of the Enraged Chess Queen’. (The…
No. 334
White to play. This position is from Keene-Nunn, Surrey Junior Championship 1963. This game started with the Scotch Game opening.…
And another thing
In Competition No. 2867 you were invited to add a final stanza to a well-known poem. Nicholas Stone imagined how…
2182: Tops
The unclued lights are of a kind, verifiable in Brewer. Across 1 Poet has overdose first (5)…
To 2179: Cos
The unclued lights are abbreviations of seven English and one Welsh county, which themselves are inflected headwords in Chambers. (Consequently,…
Nigel Farage’s class war
He's not motivated by winning. He's trying to mess with David Cameron's head
Enjoying the Ryder
What's wrong with a quiet round followed by a modest handshake and a gin and tonic?
Dear Mary
Plus: Dealing with rude old acquaintances, and the tactful way to turn down a giant plateful
Racy reading
In a field which is often characterised by polemics and hand-wringing, Noel Pearson has emerged as both a considered thinker…
Diary Australia
Riding to work just seems obvious from this range: an easy 15 minutes from Fitzroy to the Southbank home of…
Childcare – the new frontier in the culture wars
Increasingly, institutionalised childcare is being used to promote green and progressive agendas
Culture Buff
He was born into Australian ballet aristocracy but now lives in Houston. Stanton Welch is the son of Marilyn Jones…
But would you have a beer with them?
Forget KPI’s and opinion polls - the only measure of a pollie is their Beer-factor
