Private eye

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Finding Vivian Maier does not find Vivian Maier conclusively, but it still keeps you drilled to your seat

Unforgettable riffs

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Ignore the touches of hyperbole and the feminist politicking, BBC4’s The Joy of the Guitar Riff rescued Friday night TV

Visceral voices

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Plus: five short essays on Scottishness, full of detail and absurdity, by A.L Kennedy

Great Scots

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Since spring this year, art venues across Scotland have been dedicating themselves to a gigantic project called Generation. Involving more…

High life

19 July 2014 9:00 am

As a young man, I was never warned that when I was old my heart would still break regularly

Low life

19 July 2014 9:00 am

And I know I'm not going to feel this good again for a while

Real life

19 July 2014 9:00 am

The thin red line that costs you a packet

Long life

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Yet archbishops are lining up to support Lord Falconer's bill

Wild life

19 July 2014 9:00 am

It was a wonderful rite of passage for her entire class

Bridge

19 July 2014 9:00 am

The recent Open European Championship was won by Israel — but right up to the end, Monaco and England were…

Final flame

19 July 2014 9:00 am

I am very sorry to report the death of International Master Andrew Whiteley, a friend of mine for half a…

No. 323

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Black to play. This is from Litsberger-Whiteley, Harrachov 1967. This position also emanated from the Dragon Variation. What was Black’s…

Soccer lesson

19 July 2014 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2856 you were invited to recruit a well-known author of your choice to give Phil Neville a…

2171: 31 Across

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Seven identical two-by-two squares in the completed grid must be highlighted to depict the unclued entries, each of two words.…

to 2168: History exam

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Initial letters of superfluous words in clues give nightingale, quail and cuckoo, specimens of AVIFAUNA (5) represented by FLUTE (43),…

Cameron was right to move Gove

19 July 2014 9:00 am

I am shocked to see the Education Secretary go, but in the Prime Minister's shoes I might have done the same

Battle for Britain

19 July 2014 9:00 am

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How good laws change our ways

19 July 2014 9:00 am

The smoking ban is an example of legislation that worked by changing behaviour

Dear Mary

19 July 2014 9:00 am

He must be made to learn there is no point in yelling his lungs out

A toast to all bottles

19 July 2014 9:00 am

There are clubs within clubs: ours is called ‘the odd bottles’

Toe-rag

19 July 2014 9:00 am

It has nothing to do with rivers or the House of Commons

Brown Study

19 July 2014 9:00 am

I wonder if you have noticed that the public response here and overseas to the current Middle Eastern crisis has…

A legendary artist

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Our own Robert Dickerson, now aged 90, will go down as one of the world’s leading painters

Not at our expense

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Why should tax payers have subsidised the Soccer World Cup in Brazil?

Big smoke vs region

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Go bush young man! Remote towns are more relaxed and comfortable than the inner cities