Life
I’m a celebrity, get me in there
I had thought that my days of being approached by reality show producers hoping to put together a cast of…
Battle for Britain
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The dark secrets that your clicks reveal
About four years ago, an irate father in Minneapolis walked into his local Target shop with a complaint. He wanted…
Dear Mary
Q. Success has come to me in later life with an unfortunate side effect. Since my career has taken off,…
The real French embassy
Semper eadem. There is some basement in a Mayfair street that is forever France. It is not far from the…
Reem
Joey Essex is a celebrity who appeared in the ‘scripted reality’ programme The Only Way is Essex, named not after…
The real French embassy
Semper eadem. There is some basement in a Mayfair street that is forever France. It is not far from the…
The dark secrets that your clicks reveal
About four years ago, an irate father in Minneapolis walked into his local Target shop with a complaint. He wanted…
Wild life
Kenya It’s a long time since I thought of Thaddee, our Kigali stringer when I was covering Rwanda for Reuters.…
High life
Aleko Goulandris is my oldest and closest friend. We met in the summer of 1945, at the Semiramis hotel in…
Low life
Another writer I once liked very much is Gerald Brenan. Brenan served with distinction in the first world war and…
Real life
People don’t listen. It’s a relatively new thing. People used to listen, to varying degrees. You had your good listeners…
Long life
Last Sunday night 8,000 illuminated balloons, tethered along eight miles of Berlin’s former inner-city border between East and West Germany,…
The turf
November has never been my favourite month, not since the time when as a Rugby-playing student my face was rearranged…
Bridge
It’s always good to know where you draw the line and my line, drawn in thick black ink, was going…
Force Majeure
The common feature of the first two games of the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen in…
No. 340
Black to play. This position is a variation from Anand-Carlsen; World Championship, Sochi (Game 1) 2014. Can you spot Black’s…
Concrete poem
In Competition No. 2873 you were invited to submit a poem in praise or dispraise of a well-known building. It…
2188: Pieces of eight
Each unclued light is somehow related to a clued one. Elsewhere, ignore an acute accent. Across 4 …
To 2185: Over the sea
The unclued are locations on SKYE, ‘The Misty Isle’ (solutions at 15 and 31). ISLE does double duty in 15/31…
Was this man really worse than the Taleban?
Feature writers aren’t often acclaimed for their courage, but Neil Lyndon deserves a bronze plaque in St Bride’s. Twenty-two years…
Battle for Britain
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Cricket must return to Pakistan
In a tiny courtyard just off the teeming alleys of Lahore’s old town, a young Pakistani boy in a gleaming…
Dear Mary
Q. What is the correct thing to say to a writer friend whose book you haven’t read? I buy most…
Station to station
Atlantico is a vast buffet inside the Lopesan Costa Meloneras Resort Spa and Casino in Gran Canaria. The Lopesan Costa…
