Life
The problem with grammar schools
By rights, I should be one of those Tories who is passionately in favour of grammar schools. After all, I…
The problem with grammar schools
By rights, I should be one of those Tories who is passionately in favour of grammar schools. After all, I…
When more data makes you more wrong
In a one-day international against Australia last year, Ben Stokes was dismissed for ‘obstructing the field’, a rule rarely invoked…
Bridge
Here’s a bridge tip you won’t find in a book — one which the wonderful Gunnar Hallberg gave me. You’re…
Real life
One look at Grace when I went to get her in from the field, and I knew she had eaten…
A gold standard of cheating
With the Olympics almost upon us our thoughts turn inexorably to the art of cheating. And while we should deplore…
Dear Mary
Q. David and Samantha Cameron, their family and two armed policemen have moved to the house opposite us. Do you…
May day
In Competition No. 2959 you were invited to submit a poem on a political theme entitled ‘May day’. There was…
Dustcart
Are we seeing the end of dustcarts? I don’t mean that those noisy, noisome vehicles will cease roaring at the…
From cosy to crazy
I spent last weekend at Port Eliot in Cornwall, the only summer festival I’d pay to attend. Indeed, I ended…
Battle for Britain
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West End churls
Piccadilly is ill-served by cafés, unless you consider House of Caviar a cafe. There is a Caffè Nero by St…
High life
Gstaad What is it with these baldies? I turned on the television last week and watched as the identical…
Low life
After the death by boredom of the slow traffic jam, the agricultural-show field was an assault on the senses. The…
Long life
Japanese housewives are so convinced of the value of office work that they get angry if their husbands come home…
Bridge
Martin Hoffman is a hero. Now in his eighties, he can still analyse a hand faster than most people can…
Vikings on board
Mark Hall, curator of the Perth Museum, has recently drawn attention to the proliferation of board games in Viking burials.…
No. 420
White to play. This position is from Olafsson-Tal, Moscow 1971. How did White finish off? Answers to me at The…
2272: Holiday time
In eight clues, cryptic -indications omit reference to parts of answers; these parts must be highlighted, to reveal two words.…
to 2269: Humiliation
Answers to clues in italics are Clockwise (16), mondial (25), smugly (26), mushroomed (15) and pantable (32), each of which…
The turf
Sometimes the labels people give themselves are more than mere braggadocio. Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali if you must) really was…
Battle for Britain
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Vikings on board
Mark Hall, curator of the Perth Museum, has recently drawn attention to the proliferation of board games in Viking burials.…
No. 420
White to play. This position is from Olafsson-Tal, Moscow 1971. How did White finish off? Answers to me at The…
May day
In Competition No. 2959 you were invited to submit a poem on a political theme entitled ‘May day’. There was…
