Edinburgh round-up
Plus: Lloyd Evans is amazed at how many performers treat the Edinburgh Festival as a suburb of London
Oh! Carol
Plus: The Reunion relives the Berlin airlift, when British and Russian pilots went toe-to-toe
A woman’s work
A new Strawberry Hill exhibition reveals a pioneering sculptor whose works are more than just of curiosity value
Long life
It is summer, and the papers here are full of the vile behaviour of northern European tourists
Great wall
China have won the Olympiad in Tromsø. I believe that we can now look forward to a sustained Chinese dominance…
No. 328
Black to play. This position is from Ivanchuk-Mamedyarov, Tromsø Olympiad 2014. How did Black win material? Answers to me at…
Tourist misinformation
In Competition No. 2861 you were invited to submit misleading snippets of advice for British tourists travelling abroad. A previous…
2176: ,
The unclued lights (one hyphened, one of two words), individually or as four pairs, are of a kind. Across…
to 2173: Men of note
The unclued lights are COMPOSERS whose surnames start with the letter C. First prize C.R. Haigh, Hassocks, West Sussex…
The mystery of festivals
Is it consumerism wrapped up as subversion? Or just the declining liberal chattering classes huddled together for warmth?
Dear Mary
Plus: Another answer to shouting up the stairs, and a curse for weekend ambushes from B&Bs
Australian Letters
Disgraceful 18C retreat Sir: The articles by Brendan O’Neill (A Dark Day for Australia 9/8) and James Allan (Tony Abbott…
Brown study
We came from Scotland when my father was nine and his family ditched the old world a year after the…
