Bridge
The brilliant American bridge writer and former world champion Eddie Kantar once overheard two wives in his bridge class arguing…
Treasure Island
As I write, young Jonathan Hawkins has stormed into the lead in the British Championship in Aberystwyth with the tremendous…
no. 325
White to play. This position is from Rogers-Milos, Manila Olympiad 1992. White is a mass of material down but the…
Hidden talent
In Competition No. 2858 you were invited to imagine that a well-known figure from 20th-century history was a secret poet…
2173: Men of note
The unclued lights are of a specific kind. Across 11 Top flier backs help for sloth (6)…
to 2170: Hector’s summer nights
The unclued lights are the titles of the six movements of Nuits d’Eté (Summer Nights in translation) by Hector Berlioz:…
A noble tradition of benign neglect
'Jemima, Otis and Cooper,' said the walkie-talkie, 'it's time for you to go to bed'
Holiday kit – should it stay or should it go?
In the age of the Kindle, holiday reading is a simpler question. But there’s a new packing dilemma in its place
Brown Study
The success of Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop in handling the aftermath of the ghastly events in Ukraine has been…
Muslim integration
Growing up is hard enough at any time; coping with additional cross-currents of race and religion is a whole new…
Aussie superheros
It’s time to tap into our rich comic-book heritage and make some movies, starting with The Southern Squadron
Ukrainian quagmire
‘We will not be deterred in our efforts to get on to that site and retrieve the bodies of Australians…
Ming was not a nationalist
Conservative revisionists and Liberal partisans can’t accept that Sir Robert Menzies was an empire man
Australian notes
You lookin’ for Joe?’ asked the road-worker, probably one of Joe’s constituents, as I parked and cast around for the…
Diary Australia
Like Ray Charles and nearly as short-sighted, a couple of years ago I moved to the outskirts of town. I’m…
We will remember them
One fight that seems to have been won is that spearheaded by the War Memorials Trust to preserve the thousands…
