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Life

Aussie Life

Aussie life

According to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, increasing competition among supermarket giants will help deliver lower grocery prices. ‘If it is more…

Aussie Life

Language

If you haven’t come across it before, let me introduce you to ‘linguistic engineering’. This useful expression has been around…

Dolce vita

Watching the Euros final in Italy was a bad idea

There was not a Spaniard in sight, I was pretty sure of that. But I was surrounded by the enemy,…

Dear Mary

Dear Mary: How do I keep my phone safe on the beach?

Q. My husband and I have just been on a wonderful long weekend abroad to a friend’s 60th birthday. We…

No sacred cows

The intersectional feminist rewriting the national curriculum

The appointment of Becky Francis CBE to lead the Department for Education’s shake-up of the national curriculum is typical of…

Spectator sport

Why Keely Hodgkinson is the one to watch at the Olympics

The Olympics have been creeping up on us through the forest of top-class sport this summer. But now they’re here,…

Mind your language

The hidden depths of ‘deep dive’

My husband has taken to crying out or braying ‘Haar, ha!’ at the wireless whenever he hears something particularly foolish,…

Competition

Spectator Competition: Pitch battle

In Competition 3359 you were invited to present an account of a historical event as football commentary. There were enough…

More from life

My shameful shortcut to perfect pesto

Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It has been… too long since my last confession. Picture the scene. I…

The turf

Has there ever been a jockey like Oisin Murphy?

We are blessed these days with a rare stream of jockey talent including the likes of William Buick, Ryan Moore,…

Real life

Me vs the plumber

My one finished bathroom featured a sink so small I could only wash one hand in it at a time,…

Food

Jeremy King has done it again: The Park, reviewed

The Park is the new restaurant from Jeremy King, and it sits in a golden building to the north of…