The Spectator Winemaker’s Lunch with Bodegas Artadi – Friday 27 September The SpectatorTo buy tickets, head to the Spectator Shop. Join us in the Spectator boardroom on Friday 27 September for the next in our series of Spectator Winemaker Lunches with Bodegas Artadi. Bodegas Artadi dates...
The Spectator No. 593 The Spectator - Luke McShaneWhite to play, a variation from McShane–-Kamsky. In the game above, I was hoping to see 31…Qa5, as I had spotted an opportunity to turn the tables completely. What is White’s next move? Answers should...
The Spectator Boris is taking an emperor’s approach to briefings The Spectator - Peter JonesThe PM is insisting that the briefings he finds in his red box every evening should be, well, brief, and has limited them to four sides of A4. That is three too many. Emperors too had in and out boxes...
The Spectator Cosy, comforting and a bit inconsequential: Here We Are, by Graham Swift, reviewed The Spectator - John SelfSet largely in 1950s Brighton, this backward-looking novel can feel as though it were written in that decade too Here We Are Graham Swift Scribner, pp.208, £14.99 There’s something — isn’t there? — of...
The Spectator The best news for Bernie is that his rivals are so weak The Spectator - Freddy Gray‘Bernie beats Trump! Bernie beats Trump!’ That’s what Bernie Sanders’s fans keep chanting, and they have the polls to prove it. Survey after survey suggests that, of all the leading candidates for the...
The Spectator Increment and excrement The Spectator - Luke McShaneThe science-fiction writer Douglas Adams ridiculed our primitive species for considering digital watches to be ‘a pretty neat idea’. Digital chess clocks really are pretty neat, because they enable modern...
