Long life

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Like the prisoners released from their dungeons at the end of Fidelio, they came blinking into the sunlight

An eye for quality

26 July 2014 9:00 am

'I always worked for trainers who had good horses, Group One horses'

Bridge

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Richard Selway was one of the first friends I made in the bridge world. Long-standing ‘host’ at TGR’s, he was…

Witsch craft

26 July 2014 9:00 am

The ever reliable Steve Giddins has just published a new book on that great strategist Aron Nimzowitsch. This is the…

no. 324

26 July 2014 9:00 am

White to play. This is from Storey–Jarmany, -British Championship, Aberystwyth 2014. White’s position is overwhelming but what is the quickest…

Spinning Jenny

26 July 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2857 you were invited to take the first line of Leigh Hunt’s mini rondeau ‘Jenny Kissed me’,…

2172: Para

26 July 2014 9:00 am

In June we lost a popular 40. Clockwise round the grid from 3 run the titles of two of his…

to 2169: Land

26 July 2014 9:00 am

The grid represents Germany, with six bordering countries round the edge, and four cities in the interior, positioned roughly appropriately…

Following in my father’s neglectful footsteps

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Since I set up the West London Free School, I've been a much less hands-on parent

Battle for Britain

26 July 2014 9:00 am

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Being the best

26 July 2014 9:00 am

This country does not produce footballers of the first rank

Dear Mary

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Plus: A plan to dispose of an unwanted portrait

Stable conditions

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Chatsworth's marketing is the most duplicitous and effective I have ever known

Autonomy

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Apparently, it means you should have the right to die – but not the right to climb a ladder without permission

Brown Study

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Being an insomniac, I woke about 4 a.m. last Friday, turned on the BBC and there was the news already,…

Battered and beaten down

26 July 2014 9:00 am

It’s surely a fancy, the conviction that my first memory of newspapering came as a three-year-old, but I swear the…

Chemo Notes

26 July 2014 9:00 am

It’s now six months since I was diagnosed with cancer. That was a terrible start to the year. The surgeon…

Hockey and the dole

26 July 2014 9:00 am

For social workers, the age of entitlement survives

Qualities of a leader

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Decisiveness. Perseverance. Effectiveness. These are the three key words being bandied around by the world’s top diplomats to describe Australian…

Stand up to a bully

26 July 2014 9:00 am

If only European leaders were more like Tony Abbott

Australian Notes

26 July 2014 9:00 am

At first Moscow dubbed ‘unacceptable’ Tony Abbott’s brief speeches in Parliament and elsewhere on the downing of the Malaysian airliner…

Magic moments

26 July 2014 9:00 am

Peter Oborne’s masterly new book on cricket recalls a special Test rivalry between Australia and Pakistan

Diary Australia

26 July 2014 9:00 am

After years of arguments, days of negotiations and hours of speeches from the Greens, the carbon tax was finally abolished.…

Cover 26 July 2014 AU

26 July 2014 9:00 am

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The art of celebrity

24 July 2014 1:00 pm

‘The Picture of the Prime Minister hangs above the Chimney of his own Closet, but I have seen that of…