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Donald Trump makes me feel very European
There are still four months to go before the vote, but I already feel quite exhausted by the Europe referendum…
Bridge
Over the years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking, and canvassing opinion, about what to lead from AKxxx (or…
Gnomic
Zurich has been the scene for the latest clash between the titans of chess. Over a mere four days in…
No. 397
Black to play. This position is from Shirov-Nakamura, Zurich 2016. Black is winning easily but now finished with a fine…
Country music
In Competition No. 2936 you were invited to propose lyrics for a new British national anthem. Tom Shakespeare recently suggested…
2249: Transformation
The transformation is 10A (three words), which suggests the other unclued lights, including one of two words and one hyphened.…
Solution to 2246: Where’s Maggie?
The play was Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams. The characters were BRICK (1A), DOCTOR BAUGH (7/5),…
I'm voting 'leave' to go back to the 1970s. What's wrong with that?
I don’t remember the last European referendum being nearly as dramatic as the current one. In 1975, we were being…
Battle for Britain
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The 5 per cent of people who decide everything (and how to be one of them)
What happens when 95 per cent of people like something, but 5 per cent of people prefer something else? You might think…
Dear Mary: new neighbours want me to provide a ready-made social scene
Q. Former colleagues, with whom I got on very well in the context of the office, are buying a house…
The torturer named for a beautiful shrine
As you came from the Holy land Of Walsingham Met you not with my true love By the way as…
Britain to have ‘special status’ in the EU? Careful what you wish for…
‘Special status?’ said my husband. ‘You mean like executioners, butchers and undertakers in Japan?’ I hadn’t suggested that, but had…
Battle for Britain
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Gnomic
Zurich has been the scene for the latest clash between the titans of chess. Over a mere four days in…
No. 397
Black to play. This position is from Shirov-Nakamura, Zurich 2016. Black is winning easily but now finished with a fine…
Country music
In Competition No. 2936 you were invited to propose lyrics for a new British national anthem. Tom Shakespeare recently suggested…
Your problems solved
Q. Former colleagues, with whom I got on very well in the context of the office, are buying a house…
The grim irony of Walsingham
As you came from the Holy land Of Walsingham Met you not with my true love By the way as…
High life
One reason I do not tweet, text, use Facebook or Instagram, and only wield a mobile when a landline is…
Long life
There are still four months to go before the vote, but I already feel quite exhausted by the Europe referendum…
Long life
There are still four months to go before the vote, but I already feel quite exhausted by the Europe referendum…
Low life
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer with metastases in April 2013. It was a bit of a shock, but when…
Low life
I was diagnosed with prostate cancer with metastases in April 2013. It was a bit of a shock, but when…
Special status
‘Special status?’ said my husband. ‘You mean like executioners, butchers and undertakers in Japan?’ I hadn’t suggested that, but had…
