[John Whitworth]

All the usual suspects, Bill and Bazza and Martin Parker with Frank Osen just missing out. I reckon my Andrew Strauss ought to have wonn for reasons of patrioism, but Lucy is but a poor woman and probably doesn't understand cricket. Here's the new one. It obviously wants prose but verse is what it will get from me.


No. 2684 question time
You are invited to take a well-known literary figure and put them into the role of agony aunt/uncle, submitting a problem of your invention and their solution (150 words max.). Please email entries, where possible, to lucy@spectator.co.uk by midday on 2 February.