Puzzle Solutions - Edition 87 – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

Edition 87 – July 2026 – Cover + Contents
Letters – July 2026
Anthem of the North
Peter Oborne's Diary – Dignified Silence
On the Ground – Tackling Crypto-Politics
Bad Press Awards – The Platinum-Plated Projector for Performative White Rage
That's True Too – Leave to Remain
‘Hockney’s Art Was as Much an Intellectual Exercise as It Was an Expression of the Joy He Took From Being Alive’
Burnham is a Giant Step Backwards to a Better Sort of British Politics
After Makerfield, the Answer Cannot be Managerial Politics with a Different Accent
Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
A Town that has Stood Still as the World has Moved On
‘The Real Radicalism the Moment Requires is at the Level of How the World Is Seen’
Turning the Tide on the Rage Wave? Nigel Farage’s Explicit Politics of Race and Violence Could Cost Him
Navigating Antisemitism in the Shadow of Israel’s Wars
‘The Odyssey’ Backlash: A Journey Between Strangeness and Familiarity
A Letter from America – The Machine that Eats Elections
Northern Ireland’s Enduring Problem With Sectarian Violence
Half Man: ‘We’re Beginning to Get a Better, Much More Nuanced Understanding… Vulnerability is a Part of Masculinity Now’
Brexit: Ten Long Years of Bitterness
How to Stop Billionaires Buying British Politics
On the Record – Not Music to My Ears
St George and the Saltire: Flagging Up the Differences
Be part of The Fête of Britain
Notes on Now – Platner’s Past
Mandrake – Johnson’s Office Job
Mandelson and the New Statesman: How the ‘Soft PR’ Sausage Gets Made
‘Anonymous Quotes’ and Political Journalists: How Spin Doctors Deceive the Public
The Tyranny of Literacy: How Writing Only Scratches the Surface
Zeitgeisters – Margaret Heffernan
Puzzle Solutions – Edition 87
The Upside Down – Eye of Newt

Crossword

Across:

8 Progressive workplace for nurses? (6)

9 Not great, unfortunately, being in line (2,6)

10 Leaders of victorious Gurkhas giving fulsome praise (4,4)

11 Disinherit nephew partly? On reflection, in full! (6)

Zeitgeisters – Margaret Heffernan

Margaret Heffernan has been blurring the line between business leadership and creative thinking for more than two decades.

John Mitchinson

The Upside Down – Eye of Newt

Most of us know that animals such as ibis, jackals, and crocodiles were venerated by the Ancient Egyptians as avatars for their deities. But the pre-eminence of Heqet, the frog-headed bringer of life, comes as a surprise.

John Mitchinson

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Puzzle Solutions – Edition 87

Crossword

Across:

Zeitgeisters – Margaret Heffernan

The Upside Down – Eye of Newt