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Life
Aussie Life
Simon Collins
If you asked a roomful of Poms to list Winston Churchill’s greatest achievements, few would put ‘introducing the minimum wage’…
Aussie Life
Kel Richards
The expression ‘unconscious bias’ is back in the headlines. First came the good news that Oxford’s Somerville college had rescinded…
High life
Taki
Gstaad That’s all we needed in a great year: copyright has expired on The Great Gatsby. Some Fitzgerald wannabe has…
Spectator sport
Roger Alton
Rugby has enough problems — from baffling rule changes to concussion — without the referees muddying the pitch even more.…
Dear Mary
Mary Killen
Q. Recently an old acquaintance, notorious for never penning a ‘thank you’ note, emailed me telling me he was being…
Food
Tanya Gold
The Stein’s at Home steak menu box (£65) says ‘Love from Cornwall’: it is not for people who live in…
Mind your language
Dot Wordsworth
‘Blame Kingsley Amis,’ said my husband, with the carelessness of one defying a man out of earshot. The blame, such…
Real life
Melissa Kite
‘We’re sorry your experience with us has not been a good one,’ said the press officer at Surrey Police. ‘You…
Bridge
Susanna Gross
This is a great time to be a young bridge player. When I took up the game in my twenties,…
Chess
Luke McShane
Is working from home the future of a productive society, or a fleeting aberration? Nobody knows yet, but a significant…
Chess puzzle
Luke McShane
White to play. Garcia Ramos–Maurizzi, -Barcelona 2021. Black has just played Kg8-h7, to attack White’s queen by unpinning the knight…
Crossword solution
The Spectator
‘I WANT TO BE ALONE’ (1A) and ‘COME UP AND SEE ME SOMETIME’ (49/27) were supposedly said by Greta GARBO…
Crossword
Pabulum
Clockwise round the grid from 3 run seven dramatis personae; unclued lights give anagrams of two more. The play’s title…
Competition
Lucy Vickery
In Competition No. 3188, a challenge designed to make us all feel better about the looming prospect of another enforced…
No sacred cows
Toby Young
According to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, the easing of lock-down will be accompanied by a rise in crime…
Low life
Jeremy Clarke
I was supine on the slab and a nurse was rigging me up via wires and tubes to machines and…
The turf
Robin Oakley
With the Cheltenham Festival close, the quest for serious punting money intensifies. I had one potential contributor identified at Kempton…