No. 312
White to play. This is from Botvinnik-Smyslov, World Championship (Game 2) 1958. White’s next was a clever way to win…
I’m a non-believer
In Competition No. 2845 you were invited to provide a hymn for atheists. This excellent, and topical, competition was suggested…
2160: 18 Down
Six unclued lights are 18 Down from the same source (five are entitled to appear; the sixth appears regularly). Six…
To 2157: Song X
If the grid were a TIMEPIECE (13/12), the six perimetric words (GRANITE, LIMESTONE, SERPENTINE, GREYWACKE, DALRADIAN and HORNFELS) might collectively…
What’s right with Saracens– and José’s Chelsea
These aren’t easy teams to love. But they demand respect
Brown Study
Our criticism of the ABC loses its credibility if we do not praise it on those occasions when praise is…
The fall and rise of Anglo-Australia
A heraldic honours system feels more like this nation in the 19th century, not the Asian century
Exercise your right to be a bigot and pay the price
The uproar over the Los Angeles Clippers owner shows why we don’t need laws to admonish racists
Australian Notes
So Malcolm Fraser’s new hero is Dr H.V. Evatt. This is how Robert Manne sees it in his long and…
Diary
No rest for the wicked. We touch down before dawn in Sydney after a 22-hour flight and by 7am I’m…
A heavyweight duel
In the lead-up to the main event, as excitement reaches fever pitch, the contenders go through the usual pre-bout rituals.…
Spirit of Soho
Every so often, John Deakin, jug-eared chronicler of Soho and hanger-on at the Colony Rooms, is breathlessly rediscovered as the…
Voices in my head
I did not mean to snort so loudly. There I was watching the amazing Simon Russell Beale in King Lear…
Tripping through psychedelia
The Exploding Galaxy flashed brightly in the black-and-white world that was just coming to an end as I was growing…
For God, King and Country
Flags and flowers: three bloody years worked in silk. At the needle’s eye stand easy, ghost, slip through my fingers…
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
Mnemonic
Nothing I write will be as durable as the rhyme for remembering the genders of third declension nouns, stuck in…
