Life
Dear Mary
Q. David and Samantha Cameron, their family and two armed policemen have moved to the house opposite us. Do you…
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…
Long life
Japanese housewives are so convinced of the value of office work that they get angry if their husbands come home…
Long life
Japanese housewives are so convinced of the value of office work that they get angry if their husbands come home…
Low life
After the death by boredom of the slow traffic jam, the agricultural-show field was an assault on the senses. The…
Low life
After the death by boredom of the slow traffic jam, the agricultural-show field was an assault on the senses. The…
Dustcart
Are we seeing the end of dustcarts? I don’t mean that those noisy, noisome vehicles will cease roaring at the…
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…
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…
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…
The turf
Sometimes the labels people give themselves are more than mere braggadocio. Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali if you must) really was…
The turf
Sometimes the labels people give themselves are more than mere braggadocio. Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali if you must) really was…
Bridge
Martin Hoffman is a hero. Now in his eighties, he can still analyse a hand faster than most people can…
Battle for Britain
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Heaven’s gate
In Competition No. 2958 you were invited to submit a conversation between St Peter and a well-known figure who is…
Bilbao
Magnus Carlsen, the world champion, has added yet another tournament to his extensive list of victories. Although he must have…
To 2268: In state
The unclued lights are US STATE CAPITALS. First prize Stewart Jones, Winchester, Hants Runners-up John M. Brown, Rolleston-on-Dove, Staffs; Gareth…
Felines and Figaro
I know little about human medicine: still less about the animal equivalent. So I had always assumed that vets were…
Aspirin should be reassuringly expensive
Last year, those rationalist killjoys at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission prosecuted Reckitt Benckiser over four products: Nurofen Migraine…
No. 419
White to play. This position is from So-Giri, Bilbao Masters 2016. How did White make the most of his active…
2271: I’m not here or there
All but one of the unclued lights can be preceded by the same word, large or small. Solvers are requested…
Paddy Ashdown’s magical thinking
The dog days of July probably aren’t the best time to launch a new political movement, but then the people…
Dear Mary
Q. Every summer, just when England is at its loveliest, we have to pack everything up and make a stressy…
