The missing word game
Ben Schott's Schottenfreude looks at German's Lego-like capacity. What's the longest word you can build?
Let them eat glue
Brian Sewell, who has owned 17 canines, tells of his strange habits in Sleeping with Dogs
Openly taking sides
There's a long tradition of media turncoats, shows Stewart Purvis and Jeff Hulbert in When Reporters Cross the Line
Grace under pressure
The unflappable David Gower reveals he once jumped on fellow batsman Geoffrey Boycott's hat in An Endangered Species
‘Give people a break’
Radio 4's controller Gwyneth Williams has big plans for arts coverage, and is jealous of Radio 2
Slav flavour
The Met made Tchaikovsky's famous Letter Scene too long, and Tatiana looked like she would fall asleep
Lagging behind
One thing Ted Heath never had to confront was unbelievably bigoted, bullying colleagues
Farce and furious
The comedy thriller is like watching Bond smash his car into a David Brent strategy meeting — but it works
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
Long life
Italians may have suffered from so many sources during the war, they don't hold Germans responsible
Wild life
The beautiful port of Barawe became a base for the vicious foreign fighters known as the 'muhajireen'
Maecenas
Andrew Paulson, an American who lives in London, has been responsible for a remarkable chess revolution over the past year.…
No. 288
White to play. This position is from Goganov-Motylev, Russian Championship, Novgorod 2013. Black has just captured on d5 with his…
Buttoned up or open neck?
In Competition 2819 you were invited to write a poem either in free verse mocking rhymed, metrical verse or in…
2135: Strange
The unclued lights are of a kind. Across 1 Remains close to the co-founder of the Townswomen’s…
2132: Ricochet
The unclued lights, when paired 12/20, 16/33, 25/29, 31/6, 42/2, are RICOCHET or reduplicated words. First prize Mrs Rhiannon…
