The Spectator
12 January 2019
Project Fact
Maybe the shortages and delays in the event of no deal won’t be as bad as we think
Life
Why 1919 wasn’t the year it’s cracked up to be
Gstaad The funny thing is that I was at school with a man called Ted Widmer, and I recently read…
I ended New Year’s Eve more sober than I started it
Even our host stripping off failed to get us in the party mood
The Kafkaesque nightmare of cancelling my BT broadband
A conversation of such madness that I can’t recount it
Why former prisoners make the best lawyers
Once an inmate on death row, Susan Kigula is now taking on the Ugandan government
Three titans
The Dutch grandmaster Genna Sosonko specialises in biographies of the greats of the Soviet era. His earlier forays covered the…
no. 536
Black to play. This position is from Botvinnik-Smyslov, World Championship, Moscow (Game 18) 1958. How could Smyslov have forced instant…
The ex factor
In Competition No. 3080 you were invited to supply an elegy on a piece of obsolete technology. Thanks to Paul…
2390: Tea shop
Unclued lights, all confirmed in Chambers or Collins, are three sets of four words of a kind, each set relating…
to 2388: Sea rocket
The quotation was ‘IN MY BEGINNING IS MY END’ (12/15) from East Coker (an anagram of the title), second poem…
The unending war against masculinity and men
For the first time in its history, the American Psychological Association (APA) has issued guidelines for mental health professionals working…
If ever a man deserved his gong, it’s Sir Alastair Cook
Here’s a date for the diary: if you’re in south London on 11 April, head for the Oval. It’s going…
Dear Mary: How do I get an answer from my elusive publisher?
Q. What is the current etiquette regarding chasing an opinion from a publisher to whom, by agreement and via a…
This is a restaurant for affluent halfwits: Bob Bob Ricard reviewed
In January, you could go to Bob Bob Ricard in Soho. I do not know why it is called Bob…
Illeism: the weird habit of talking about oneself in the third person
Someone has been putting about reports that Sajid Javid, the Home Secretary, refers to himself in the third person as…
What Corbyn’s far left has in common with Trump and the Brexit right
Even though Jeremy Corbyn and the men and women who support him are often shabby and occasionally reactionary figures, the…
The three scenes from Ch4’s Brexit film that show why Remain lost
As soon as Channel 4 announced Benedict Cumberbatch had been cast as Dominic Cummings in its Brexit film, a hatchet…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the left’s Sarah Palin
When the media falls in love, it falls hard. Its latest crush is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat congressgirl from New York.…
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