Life
Eddie Jones must go
So should he stay or should he go? That’s Eddie ‘I don’t really care what other people think’ Jones, currently…
Michael Beale has broken my heart
Most football fans have had their attention riveted on Qatar for the past couple of weeks, but for those of…
Kiwi life
The long march reaches its destination. Looking back, we can see that things seemingly happening overnight were part of that…
Language
It’s that time of year again – when dictionaries around the world start announcing their ‘Word of the Year’. And…
Spectator competition winners: celebrity biographies with unfortunate misprints
In Competition No. 3276, you were invited to supply an extract from the memoir of a celebrity with some unfortunate…
Should things still grow ‘like Topsy’?
I’ve heard two people in the past week make a jocular remark about things just growing ‘Like Topsy’. They were…
The overlooked brilliance of Branaire-Ducru
At the end of last century, when there were grounds for optimism about Russia’s future, an increasingly popular word expressed…
What the media is doing to our politics
An American academic told me that during the 2016 presidential election nobody in academia believed there was the faintest chance…
Bread pudding is the perfect bridge from autumn to winter
I am incapable of throwing anything away in the kitchen. In my fridge, there must be at least half a…
My prescription for surviving the winter
Winter is finally upon us and I’m relying on my usual array of tablets and powders to ward off seasonal…
Ascot was a high-profile disaster for jump racing
The government may for the moment have disbanded its circular firing squad, but racing has never shown a greater ability…
