Life

No. 360

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Black to play. This is from Short-Polgar, Madrid 1995. Judit Polgar is the strongest female -player ever, with an overwhelming…

Eating poetry

2 May 2015 9:00 am

In Competition No. 2895 you were invited to submit a poem describing a meal with a well-known poet. Sylvia Fairley…

2209: Safe-blowers

2 May 2015 9:00 am

The unclued lights (two of two words) are to be linked with one of the clued lights in translation. All…

To 2206

2 May 2015 9:00 am

The thematic unclued lights (4D, 20D, 34D, 40A and 41A+27A) are COUNTRIES, and the other unclued lights are their anagrams,…

My Brasenose college reunion was great (even if David Cameron didn’t turn up)

2 May 2015 9:00 am

A couple of weeks ago I returned to my old Oxford college for a ‘gaudy’ — posh, Oxford-speak for a…

Battle for Britain

2 May 2015 9:00 am

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Next time, David Cameron should pretend to support Bournemouth

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Here’s an election-winning idea for Dave: forget about Aston Villa (or West Ham) and become a full-on Bournemouth fan. They…

Dear Mary: How to buy dinner for high net worth individuals

2 May 2015 9:00 am

Q. Six months ago I invited some old friends to be my guests at a reunion dinner. We all love…

(Photo: Liavittone)

The Portrait restaurant: a secret glade of stone and brick, suspended above Trafalgar Square

2 May 2015 9:00 am

The Portrait Restaurant lives at the top of the National Portrait Gallery, London. It is fiercely modern, but likeable. You…

English cities don’t have quarters – whatever the executives say

2 May 2015 9:00 am

‘No quarter given,’ yelled my husband as he stabbed at a cushion with his stick, spoiling the cavalier effect a…

Battle for Britain

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

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Nigel’s controversy

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

British chess grandmaster Nigel Short has form when it comes to provocative statements. When competing in a tournament in France…

No. 360

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Black to play. This is from Short-Polgar, Madrid 1995. Judit Polgar is the strongest female -player ever, with an overwhelming…

Eating poetry

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

In Competition No. 2895 you were invited to submit a poem describing a meal with a well-known poet. Sylvia Fairley…

Dear Mary

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Q. Six months ago I invited some old friends to be my guests at a reunion dinner. We all love…

(Photo: Liavittone)

Square meal

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

The Portrait Restaurant lives at the top of the National Portrait Gallery, London. It is fiercely modern, but likeable. You…

High life

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…

Low life

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Two stylists work at this deeply rural French ladies’ hairdresser. Christelle is a gorgeous 17-year-old point-of-lay pullet, so lithe and…

Quarter

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

‘No quarter given,’ yelled my husband as he stabbed at a cushion with his stick, spoiling the cavalier effect a…

Come on you blues. Or, er, reds

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

Here’s an election-winning idea for Dave: forget about Aston Villa (or West Ham) and become a full-on Bournemouth fan. They…

Reuniondues

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

A couple of weeks ago I returned to my old Oxford college for a ‘gaudy’ — posh, Oxford-speak for a…

Reuniondues

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

A couple of weeks ago I returned to my old Oxford college for a ‘gaudy’ — posh, Oxford-speak for a…

The real McCoy

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

At Sandown Park last Saturday an era ended. Twenty thousand of us turned up to cheer on Tony McCoy as…

2209: Safe-blowers

30 April 2015 1:00 pm

The unclued lights (two of two words) are to be linked with one of the clued lights in translation. All…

Neither London nor New York will be livable in ten years’ time

25 April 2015 9:00 am

A recent column in the FT made me mad as hell. The writer, Simon Kuper, calls Vienna a backwater, which…