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Life
Aussie Life
Simon Collins
As a child I had a version of OCD called Just Right syndrome. This doesn’t mean I lived entirely on…
Aussie Life
Kel Richards
Brauer College in Warrnambool, Victoria made the news for having required all the boys at an assembly to ‘stand up…
Bridge
Janet de Botton
The Lady Milne is the annual Women’s Championship between the home countries (and Ireland) and is most often a two-horse…
Competition
Lucy Vickery
In Competition No. 3197, you were invited to supply a poem to mark the death of Prince Philip. I wondered…
Dear Mary
Mary Killen
Q. I am placed in a social dilemma due to a proposed visit on the last weekend of June by…
Real life
Melissa Kite
‘You’re meant to be having your dental appointment now!’ barked the receptionist, bringing my lie-in to an abrupt end. Very…
No sacred cows
Toby Young
In the introduction to an anthology of his jazz record reviews, the poet Philip Larkin imagines his readers. They’re not…
Mind your language
Dot Wordsworth
As his tweed jacket flapped open to one side of his stomach, my husband stood up unsteadily and arched his…
Drink
Bruce Anderson
Freedom approaches. Should we be humming ‘Va, Pensiero’ or ‘O Welche Lust’ — perhaps both. Thinking of Fidelioreminds me of…
The Wiki Man
Rory Sutherland
Back in late 2019 I met someone from Zoom who was visiting London. The company, then as now, offered free…
Low life
Jeremy Clarke
The only thing left for me now is to embrace humility and take up basket weaving. In our dog and…
High life
Taki
New York With the Karamazovian hangover now only a weekly occurrence, the healthy life rules supreme. Well, most of the…
Chess puzzle
Luke McShane
White to play and mate in two moves. Composed by Revd Ernest Clement Mortimer, The Problemist, 1942. Answers should be…
Chess
Luke McShane
As round 14 of the Candidates tournament unfolded, I had the feeling of watching an anti-climactic post-exam bender. Ian Nepomniachtchi…
Wild life
Aidan Hartley
Laikipia Until I promised to slaughter a fat-tailed sheep with a goat thrown in for a feast, the farm cowhands…
Crossword
Doc
The unclued lights (one hyphened) are of a kind, confirmed in Chambers. Elsewhere, ignore one accent. Across 1 I…
Crossword solution
The Spectator
The unclued lights are HORSES. First prize Bob Toland, Ramsey, CambsRunners-up Gareth Davies, Langstone, Gwent; Catherine Knox, London SW4
