Solution to 2122: Theme and Variations

10 August 2013 9:00 am

The theme word is GRAVES: 19, 34 and 40 are famous cemeteries; 17, 28 and 39 are wines from SW…

The myths of the English countryside

10 August 2013 9:00 am

One of the great things about spending the summer holidays in England is that it gives you an opportunity to…

Speculation season

10 August 2013 9:00 am

It’s been a long, hot, soccerless holiday. There has been football about — the women’s European Championship, for example, and…

Dave

10 August 2013 9:00 am

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Dear Mary

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Q. My mainly male colleagues and I were happy to learn that an attractive young woman would be joining the…

World shaking

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Shake Shack is a hamburger restaurant in Covent Garden market. It came from New York and it is as needy…

Fracking

10 August 2013 9:00 am

‘Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a frack,’ replied my husband unwittily when I asked how he’d feel if shale…

The old ways

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Perhaps if Labor had offered up Bill Shorten, Bob Carr, Greg Combet or any candidate other than Kevin Rudd for…

Cover 10 August 2013 AU

10 August 2013 9:00 am

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Diary

10 August 2013 9:00 am

In a life garlanded by few and modest distinctions, I do enjoy, I suspect, one that is unusual. As we…

My Aussie heroes

10 August 2013 9:00 am

In memory of Ian Davis and the Test losers of 1977

A political melodrama

10 August 2013 9:00 am

We really do need to talk about Kevin

In praise of people smugglers

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Stop attacking a legitimate and morally justified trade

Gorilla tactics

10 August 2013 9:00 am

King Kong is an unmissable circus

Brown study

10 August 2013 9:00 am

Like hanging, an election concentrates the mind, at least if you are a political junkie. So I suppose it is…

Australian Notes

10 August 2013 9:00 am

While Kevin Rudd was making his way to Yarralumla last Sunday, Tony Abbott was in Sydney’s Chinatown with Julie Bishop…

Making a mint

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…

World shaking

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

Shake Shack is a hamburger restaurant in Covent Garden market. It came from New York and it is as needy…

Speculation season

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

It’s been a long, hot, soccerless holiday. There has been football about — the women’s European Championship, for example, and…

Making a mint

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

Send George Osborne to the Tower, then he might learn that currency manipulation rarely ends well. Coins and Kings occupies…

Hooked on classics

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

Tradition is often frowned on. Yet, if properly handled, it can be sheer fun and pure bliss, as demonstrated by…

Must we celebrate gay weddings twice?

8 August 2013 1:00 pm

Apparently I’ve proposed to my civil partner. He claims that on BBC Radio 2, on the Jeremy Vine show (he…

Cover 13 July 2013 AU

5 August 2013 12:57 pm

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Frack the South

3 August 2013 9:00 am

David Howell never really succeeded as energy and then transport secretary in Mrs Thatcher’s governments. After she sacked him in…

Diary

3 August 2013 9:00 am

The astonishing level of enthusiasm over the birth of the new prince goes far beyond the pleasure that people naturally…