Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

How Covid-19 is helping to digitise the public sector

The public sector has perhaps faced the biggest challenge of any industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many organisations, public institutions and agencies are dealing with a dynamically shifting situation, as science and government advice fluctuates with each stage of the crisis. Yet they have done this while being on the front line of the

A puzzling dozen – answers

1. Alexander Grischuk 2. Stephen King 3. Iepe Rubingh 4. Shohreh Bayat 5. Ding Liren vs Magnus Carlsen 6. White plays 1 Bd2, 2 Ba5, 3 b4. Regardless of Black’s moves, the result is a draw by stalemate 7. The Bongcloud (Attack) 8. Agadmator 9. The Complete Chess Swindler, by David Smerdon 10. Irina Krush

2020 Christmas quiz – the answers

Out of the ordinary1. Canada2. Leighton Buzzard3. Death Valley, California4. Krakatoa5. Malta6. Angola 7. Bernie Sanders (with Joe Biden in fifth place)8. Carlos Ghosn9. Fifty pence10. China. The horse’s mouth1. The Queen, in a televised message on 5 April2. Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland Secretary3. John Lewis4. A 50p5. Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of