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…
Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
The post Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess appeared first on The Spectator. Got something to add? Join…
Rebooting the Snail
L’Escargot, or the Snail, is a famous restaurant on Greek Street, Soho, opposite the old Establishment club; the oldest French…
Squash hits
Thank god for the Commonwealth Games: at least they gave us a brief respite from football transfer stories. Instead of…
It is glorious at Goodwood
If I get to choose where to spend my last day on earth it will probably be at Glorious Goodwood.…
Edinburgh rocks
And they’re off. The mighty caravan of romantic desperadoes, radical egoists, stadium wannabes, struggling superstars and vanity crackheads is on…
Simple pleasures
According to some textbooks, one thing the fathers of Soviet choreography hastened to remove from ballet was that awkward-looking language…
