Bridge
It’s no coincidence that many card players excel at both bridge and poker. The poker legend Gus Hansen plays a…
Watch and wait
While Viswanathan Anand, the former world champion, has been qualifying for a revenge match for the world title, Magnus Carlsen,…
No. 311
White to play. This is a variation from Carlsen-Leitao, Brazil 2014. White has a big attack on the kingside which…
Inconsequential
In Competition No. 2844 you were invited to provide an extract from either a gripping thriller or a bodice-ripping romance…
2159: Wine, Woman and Song
Nine unclued lights are linked in three different ways (three lights to each) to a tenth, which solvers should highlight.…
to 2156: Shoreline
The perimeter is occupied by seven SANDPIPERS. First prize Tim Hanks, Douglas, Isle of Man Runners-up Hilda Ball, Belfast;…
Seventy ain’t old
Age, clearly, has not withered the Rolling Stones. With the average age of the remaining four members of the ‘greatest…
Brown Study
There are now another 156 reasons for keeping our constitutional monarchy, for that is the number of leading barristers who…
Repeal section 18C
I am a person of Aboriginal descent, and I have a strong personal view on section 18C of the Racial…
Diary
It’s not often you have a foretaste of paradise. Recently I spent a month in Europe — the UK, Ireland,…
Australian Notes
I first came across Neville Wran back in January 1946. Just out of school but not yet enrolled in Sydney…
In praise of Big Coal
Through its coal-digging antics, Oz has made itself the midwife of a new era of progress around the world
Aunty’s deep cultural confusion
Why is a public broadcaster allowed to use tax dollarsto promote a commercial success like Peppa Pig?
Why we love the Cambridges
The visiting Royals are more like film stars than royalty, following the template set by the Duke’s late mother
‘Qui, moi?’
In 2008, Bob Carr was on an ABC panel show, pontificating about the wisdom of decisions of the US Supreme…
Vive la différence!
‘London,’ says Jean Paul Gaultier, ‘was my vitamin. I love the freedom of London…The energy, the character, all the people…
