Bridge
Dallas to me was an Eighties TV series with huge shoulder pads until I arrived there to play the American…
Candidates compendium
This week I focus on a number of key positions from the World Championship qualifier, the Candidates tournament, which concluded…
No. 308
White to play. This position is from Topalov-Kramnik, Fidé Candidates, Khanty-Mansisk 2014. Kramnik has badly misplayed the opening and now…
Vice verse
In Competition 2841 you were invited to paint an amusing portrait in verse of the vice and folly of humankind.…
2156: Shoreline
Seven items of a kind read clockwise round the perimeter. In ten clues, cryptic indications omit reference to parts of…
to 2153: Selling
Corrections of misprints in clues form the phrase BAIT AND SWITCH. Unclued lights are examples of bait (10, 16, 23,…
Letters
Chapter and verse on Islam Sir: Irshad Manji’s generally very sensible article on ‘Reclaiming Islam’ (29 March) suggests using the…
The need to know
Google doesn’t make traditional lessons obsolete. In fact, you’ll struggle to get the most from it without them
In defence of the Boat Race
If this is sport only of interest to alumni, it’s amazing how many people went to Oxbridge
Your problems solved
Plus: A chomper at the library, and the civilised way to share a restaurant bill
A far cry from Chelsea
London House is wonderfully comforting, but South London deserves people who wouldn’t rather be in Chelsea
Brown Study
It was good to see the government’s decision to amend Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, as the reforms…
Labour ages
With the long anticipated Royal Commission, the ALP should jettison the moribund trade unions
The PM rushes in where angels fear to tread
Tony Abbott’s decision to reinstate knights and dames has provoked outrage from the usual suspects — but it is fully justified
Diary
I’ve recently rediscovered the lost, forbidden pleasure of the smoko. My earliest memories of enjoying a smoko were back at…
A culture war on whaling
Australia’s successful international block on Japan’s business represents the nanny state gone global
Australian Notes
I am in John Howard’s corner rather than Tony Abbott’s on the great question of knights and dames. But the…
Joe’s Thatcherite message
The greatest accolade that can be granted to a public figure is not a knighthood, an OA or any such…
Steeling the show
Visitors to Chatsworth House this spring might wonder if they have stumbled through the looking-glass. The estate’s rolling parkland has…
A Mixed Ability Room
the english foxhound likes to bay his enemy is the wind instead of grief he feels relief at every innovative…
