No. 320
White to play. This position is a variation from Mamedov-Carlsen, World Blitz 2014. Here White played 1 hxg5 and Carlsen…
Ground work
In Competition No. 2853 you were asked to incorporate the following words (they are real geological terms) into a piece…
2168: History exam
Each of twenty-two clues contains a superfluous word. Initial letters of these words spell three specimens of 5; these are…
to 2165: Not far off
According to Fred HOYLE (24), SPACE is ‘only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards’ (10…
Has my negative charisma doomed free schools?
In the end, I'm convinced, even my negative charisma can't doom this good cause
Dinner with the paparazzi
David Cameron was seen here. But then he has no taste of his own and must be told where is fashionable
Recognise what?
For our $10 million, we deserve a more coherent case for Constitutional change than motherhood statements
Labor renewal?
Ben Chifley once spoke about a shining light on the hill. By the time that Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard…
Brown Study
A column like this cannot ignore the terrible events in the Middle East as Iraq falls apart from bloody-mindedness, Islamic…
Mugged by reality
When American neoconservatives rose to intellectual prominence in the 1970s, they were invariably described — not least by themselves —…
Let’s learn from the mess-in-potamia
The hawks were wrong about every aspect of Iraq, so why on earth should we still listen to them?
Diary Australia
Everyone who appears on the cover of a magazine feels angst about how they look. As the editor of a…
Australian notes
The back page of the New York Times put it well. It was an empty broadsheet page except for the…
Modern manners
Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress has been a rich resource for artists. Film-makers recognise his modern moral subjects as an ancestor…
Extreme poetic licence
He was always lucky, and he knew it: lucky in the secure rural intimacy of the upbringing described in Cider…
Spoken For
What I want to tell you is I can dream with my eyes wide open, like riding a bicycle without…
Dinner with the paparazzi
Here then is Gatsby’s house, after an invasion by the Daily Mail. It is called the Chiltern Firehouse. It is…
England’s World Cup: the post mortem
Iran, eh: who knew? Last time I checked it was the great Satan, locking up its own people, stamping out…
