Low life
My medical treatment has changed my musical taste. But I'm afraid it hasn't improved my morals
Long life
And if you want to see your planning battles fought properly, make it the Italian countryside
Bridge
Two very exciting tournaments drew to a close last week. The first was the Spingold, the main teams event in…
Two’s a crowd
The British Championship, which finished in Aberystwyth last week, has been shared by international master Jonathan Hawkins and the defending…
no. 326
White to play. This is from Perez Ponsa–Frick, Tromso Olympiad 2014. How did White blast through? Answers to me at…
Voter repellent
In Competition No. 2859 you were invited to submit an offputting party political broadcast by the Tories, Labour, the Lib…
2174: Difficulty
Five clues consist of cryptic indications of partial answers; in each case, the indicated part must be treated thematically to…
to 2171: 31 Across
The seven 2×2 squares each used the letters STAR in order, and depicted the seven major stars that make up…
Dear Mary
Plus: Is it ever all right to remove an unflattering photo of oneself from someone else's album?
A dark day for Australia
Tony Abbott’s ‘leadership call’ on Section 18C is a double-whammy wallop in the face of liberty
Two worlds colliding
The imagery was faintly disturbing. A powerful whitefella sits in the middle of a group of Aboriginal elders, themselves surrounded…
It’s time to stop funding ‘elite’ sports
Australia’s performance at the Commonwealth Games has exposed what a waste of taxpayers’ money it all is
Diary Australia
At the season launch for the 1987 Sheffield Shield, the South Australian captain, David Hookes, was seated next to Don…
Guilt trip
If you had to pick one emotion to characterise Australia’s attitude towards East Timor, it would be guilt. We are…
Edinburgh rocks
And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…
Two Roads
There are the fast people who check their emails hourly, engage with Twitter and multi- task their way through the…
