Life
Dear Mary: Must I have name badges for guests at my wedding?
Q. My husband-to-be and I both work full time. We are getting married from his family HQ and his kind…
Le Caprice is trying to bring back the 1980s (unsuccessfully)
Le Caprice is a monochrome patch of the 1980s behind the Ritz Hotel, in the part of St James’s that…
How ‘Not even a thing’ became a thing
Last summer Kim Kardashian, who already had a daughter called North (surname West), announced that she was expecting a boy.…
Battle for Britain
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Irresistible force
Alexander Alekhine was one of the immortals of the chessboard — world champion from 1927, when in an epic war…
No. 394
White to play. This position is from Alekhine-Flohr, Bled 1931. White has a positional advantage but can you spot the…
Woe is me
In Competition No. 2933 you were invited to submit a blurb for a misery memoir. Thanks to Tom Dulake for…
Your problems solved
Q. My husband-to-be and I both work full time. We are getting married from his family HQ and his kind…
Past Caring
Le Caprice is a monochrome patch of the 1980s behind the Ritz Hotel, in the part of St James’s that…
High life
Athens Viewed from Mars, this is a sunny, peaceful city. Up close, however, things ain’t what they used to be.…
Low life
Denis was my guide to and from the new out-of-town Lidl superstore at Salernes in Provence. I drove. The road…
Low life
Denis was my guide to and from the new out-of-town Lidl superstore at Salernes in Provence. I drove. The road…
Not even a thing
Last summer Kim Kardashian, who already had a daughter called North (surname West), announced that she was expecting a boy.…
Real life
If these speed awareness courses get much more entertaining and informative they might become a dangerous incentive to break the…
Don’t cry for John Terry
Just when you were thinking that the Premier League had become a much nicer place without José Mourinho in it,…
Why does no one speak up for poor white boys?
David Cameron can be a frustrating figure at times. He wrote an article for the Sunday Times this week in…
Why does no one speak up for poor white boys?
David Cameron can be a frustrating figure at times. He wrote an article for the Sunday Times this week in…
Second thoughts
Racing Life is all about judgment and I got one thing right at Cheltenham last Saturday after the overnight rain.…
Second thoughts
Racing Life is all about judgment and I got one thing right at Cheltenham last Saturday after the overnight rain.…
Bridge
The Brits have done brilliantly in Icelandair’s annual bridge festival in Reykjavik and this year was no different. The winners…
Trump’s appeal can be summed up in five words
The Dolly Sisters were off to Davos last week for the World Economic Forum: Nat Rothschild and Sebastian Taylor in…
So the Queen's a Satanist cannibal? I’d still swear allegiance
Roy was a superb mechanic, a methodical master of his trade. For an hour I respectfully watched him work to…
How to make a vet blush
My attempt to have a small cyst removed from the spaniel was always going to be fraught with difficulty. My…
Why it's better to give money to a beggar than to a charity
No good deed goes unpunished. This is a saying that applies with special poignancy to Olive Cooke, the 92-year-old poppy…
Bridge
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same… Well, Kipling obviously never…
