Solution to 2328: Second coming
The suggested title is Brideshead Revisited, HEEDS/RABID (6A/42) being an anagram of BRIDESHEAD. The six characters, all members of the Flyte…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, when asked by Iain Dale in an interview on LBC: ‘If there was a…
Always a dull moment
From ‘Perfect peace’ by Christopher Hollis, 21 October 1960: In Mr Terence Rattigan’s The Final Test, an English spectator of…
Tory blues
Theresa May’s conference speech — interrupted by coughing fits and with part of the set falling apart behind her —…
Letters
What do the Tories offer? Sir: I have been hoping that someone more eloquent than me would respond to your…
to 2327: Exhibition
Five unclued lights (1D, 14, 21, 24 and 41) are titles of paintings by EDWARD HOPPER (5 39). First prize…
Portrait of the week
Home Theresa May, the Prime Minister, told her audience at the Conservative party conference that she wanted to continue, like…
The media is paying too much homage to Catalonia
However much we try — and lots of us don’t — we fall for the power of the photo-image. So…
The nerves of the enemy
From ‘The progress in Flanders’, 29 September 1917: The fighting has reached a degree of intensity never before known. There…
It’s time to talk trade
Thirty years ago, the Conservatives would have had no problem countering what Jeremy Corbyn had to offer in Brighton. But…
to 2326: ‘Suits you, sir!’
The unclued lights are part of a SUIT of armour. First prize Clive Rose, Henley on Thames, OxonRunners-up Virginia Porter,…
Portrait of the week
Home Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, told the party conference that Labour was ‘on the threshold of power’. The party…
A fallen idol
Few world leaders have fallen from grace as quickly as Aung San Suu Kyi. The Nobel prize-winner, who also holds…
Letters
Christians betrayed Sir: Michael Karam’s article (Ya Allah!, 16 September) is timely. Many Westerners seem to be unaware that there…
to 2325: Hard task
The theme was PIGS. First prize J. E. Green, St Albans, HertfordshireRunners-up Michael Moran, Penrith, Cumbria; John M. Brown, Rolleston…
Portrait of the week
Home Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary, issued a manifesto for a ‘glorious future’ for Britain outside the European Union as…
2324: In the frame
11, 42 and perimeter entries are titles of COMPUTER-ANIMATED FILMS. First prize B. Midgley, Ettington, Stratford-upon-AvonRunners-up Arabella Grandage, Bradenham, Bucks;…
Red Tories
Jeremy Corbyn has never been very keen on parliamentary democracy. He may be changing his mind now. The British electoral…
Portrait of the week
Home The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill was given a second reading by 326 votes to 290, with seven Labour MPs…
Keeping faith
For Church of England vicars who worry less about what they will preach on Sunday than whether there will be…
to 2323: alphabetical jigsaw
A Ambition, A Aorist, B Battledore, C Caret, C Cashed, C Coact, C Coalman, C Cuttoes, D Dioxan, D Disaccharides,…
Barometer
More or less a million One in 79 Britons is now a millionaire thanks to property price rises. The word…
Call Barnier’s bluff
There is a growing perception that Britain is floundering in its EU negotiations, with a professional team from Brussels running…
