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The right track

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Sebastian Coe’s new job as head of world athletics will be a heck of a lot easier thanks to the…

A marriage of misanthropes

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

This is a cautionary tale for any young couples out there thinking of tying the knot. Be wary of what…

A marriage of misanthropes

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

This is a cautionary tale for any young couples out there thinking of tying the knot. Be wary of what…

Absolute beginners

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Heaven be praised for the sinner who repenteth, however long it takes. For President George Bush Senior, his occasional meetings…

Absolute beginners

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

Heaven be praised for the sinner who repenteth, however long it takes. For President George Bush Senior, his occasional meetings…

Bridge

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

No doubt you have heard about the huge cheating storm that has blown up over the last 10 days. Here…

The unspiritual life is in sad decline (except on Michael Chandris's yacht)

29 August 2015 9:00 am

According to Somerset Maugham, in material terms one must live on the razor edge between poverty and minimal subsistence in…

Italy is so civilised! Even at a mad dash

29 August 2015 9:00 am

I sprinted through Milan station, speed-read the departures monitor without stopping, and arrived gasping on platform 8 with two minutes…

Am I moving to the Cotswolds? Don't measure the curtains yet

29 August 2015 9:00 am

On the basis that I might need a new boiler soon, I thought I had better sell the London flat…

The young are miserable and the old are happy – shouldn’t it be the other way around?

29 August 2015 9:00 am

We learn from a new report that children in England are among the unhappiest in the world — more unhappy,…

Africa is no longer the land of elephants

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Laikipia An elephant can break through an electric fence by pulling out the posts, pushing younger, more stupid animals into…

Bridge

29 August 2015 9:00 am

I hope Zia Mahmood will forgive me. It’s not often I come across a contract that he has failed to…

Piratical

29 August 2015 9:00 am

I have never met David Smerdon, the Australian grandmaster and author of Smerdon’s Scandinavian (Everyman Chess). Last week I gave…

No. 376

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Black to play. This position is a variation from variation from Maslak-Smerdon, Pardubice 2007. Black has powered through on the…

Fan fare

29 August 2015 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2912 you were invited to submit a tribute in verse to a once-popular foodstuff that has fallen…

2226: Whitehouse

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Clockwise from 4 run three titles (6,2,3,6,7,9,3,4,3,4,5) linked with X who won a 21 of 8s. 29 is a fourth…

To 2223: Clerihew

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Edmund Clerihew Bentley wrote: The art of Biography/ Is different from Geography/ Geography is about maps/ But Biography is about…

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Once again, the French are relying on Americans and Brits to protect them from murderous fascists

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Boy, am I glad I’m not a Frenchman. Last week’s dramatic incident on board a Paris-bound train, in which a…

Battle for Britain

29 August 2015 9:00 am

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Want to avoid regulators? Do something useless

29 August 2015 9:00 am

I had a water meter installed in my flat a few months ago. I looked at it just now and…

Dear Mary: How do you persuade your drunk friend to leave a party when the taxi arrives?

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Q. How do you persuade someone drunk to leave a party when it doesn’t make sense for them to stay?…

Dorset is a palliative for the human condition

29 August 2015 9:00 am

Do-orzaat. Dorset is part of L’Angleterre profonde. It is possible to find evidence of modernity, but only in limited areas.…

Saints still beat Game of Thrones for baby-naming – but maybe not Mohammed

29 August 2015 9:00 am

We reached peak Charlie in 2012, when 5,571 baby boys were given the name. There were only 4,642 last year.…

Battle for Britain

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

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Piratical

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

I have never met David Smerdon, the Australian grandmaster and author of Smerdon’s Scandinavian (Everyman Chess). Last week I gave…