The Spectator - October 29, 2016

‘Bicycle cards are perfect for “rifling” as long as the reverse bend takes place’ — Dear Mary, p69 High life Taki^ I was not on ...

LIFE Real life Melissa Kite Coffee shops are becoming impossible. I had been standing in the queue at Caffè Nero on Battersea Ri ...

bucks, where he would have to have written the drinkers’ names on the cups as well. We would have been there all day as he scrib ...

LIFE jumper over fences, but the prizes are rich- er and the injuries much less frequent. As a result, and with better nutrition ...

SPECTATOR WINE JONATHAN RAY W e’re not due a Wine Club offering in the magazine until next week, but so good were the wines that ...

LIFE White is only slightly better. 20 h5 Nf8 21 Nh4 (see diagram 2) 21 ... g6 The white knight was coming to f5 but the cure is ...

LIFE Across 1 Excel as old Greek character among women (11) 11 Cable runs past part of bow (6) 13 Look in after settling vagrant ...

LIFE London mayoral race. MPs break promises all the time, but you’d be hard pushed to find an example of Zac doing that. Indeed ...

have become the default setting for the News of the World’s one-time star reporter, Mazher Mahmood. The sting which trapped Alla ...

LIFE ing brown puddle from which nothing interesting will rise, beyond possibly an audit. They should have looked for a piece of ...

Millions CHRISTMAS WINE & FOOD Helen Lederer and Julie BurchillJoan Collins, Rod Liddle, COMR ADE MASON Paul Mason’s bizarre ...

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