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Will Lyons, a delightful companion, is not only a friend of mine. He has one of the finest palates in…

In a one-day international against Australia last year, Ben Stokes was dismissed for ‘obstructing the field’, a rule rarely invoked…

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By rights, I should be one of those Tories who is passionately in favour of grammar schools. After all, I…

Seven unclued lights were names of VERSE-MEN (22) minus one letter: VI(R)GIL (1A), BRO(O)KE (15A), BRID(G)ES (16), DON(N)E (9), S(P)ENDER…

Clockwise round the perimeter from 3 run the titles of three items (1, 6, 3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 4,…

White to play. This position is from Steinitz–Chigorin, World Championship (Game 4), Havana 1892. How did White finish off? Answers…

After the vote to leave the EU it is time to reclaim the good old English names for traditional openings…

Here’s a bridge tip you won’t find in a book — one which the wonderful Gunnar Hallberg gave me. You’re…

A hoo-ha has broken out in the city of Oryol, south-west of Moscow, over a proposal by the officials there…

The builder boyfriend colicked for a week after eating a falafel kebab as he and I sat up all night…

At 11 p.m. I sneaked away from my boy’s wedding party to my ground-floor accommodation in the hotel to write…

Gstaad   ‘He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, that daring young man on the flying trapeze.’…

‘I’m off now,’ says Michael Heath, signing off from his selection of Desert Island Discs on Radio 4, ‘to go…

One overcast afternoon in late July I took a train to Norfolk. It seemed a good time and place to…

Proof that someone has really made it as a TV historian comes, I would suggest, when they join the likes…

Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…

Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog is billed as a ‘dark comedy’ although it is far more dark than comic. If pressed to…

As the festival grows, the good acts are harder to find and the prices keep rising to meet the throngs…

Many years ago an arts spokesperson for the SNP launched an extraordinary attack on Scottish Opera, saying, ‘If push comes…

Threnody. Dirge. Lament. Epitaph. Elegy. Wake. There are so many English terms to describe the passing of people and things…

Night of Fire is Colin Thubron’s first novel for 14 years. For most of us he is better known as…

Elvis only ever appeared in one commercial in his life — for Southern Maid, his favourite jam doughnut shop. That…