| Dear reader,
The US Presidential election has been much tighter and more prolonged than we've been accustomed to. Perhaps only 2000 comes close. Like then, the Republican candidate, this time Donald Trump, has launched legal action to try and alter the course of the election. David Millward explains what could happen if the courts get involved.
Mr Trump also took the controversial position of effectively declaring victory well before the full count had been completed and claiming that the election was a “fraud on the American people”. Our own Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has dubbed the move “sacrilege” and fears the consequences of weeks of legal gridlock for the economy and global peace.
Britain entered a second national lockdown overnight. One possible way to while away November is with puzzles. Or, more specifically, a fiendish yet masterful 85-year-old, 100-page-long murder mystery puzzle that, until this year, had only ever been solved by two people. Susannah Goldsbrough tells the full story of this bizarre enigma and hears from the third person to solve it and about how it works. You can sign up for our puzzles newsletter here.
Finally, for three years Sheila Hancock suffered crippling arthritis without breathing a word of it in public. She did so, she tells Jasper Rees, because she didn’t want to lose out on work. Now, just as she’s taken the helm of Channel 4’s Great Canal Journeys, she’s changed her mind about it and explains to Jasper why.
Chris
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My Choices | | With millions of votes still to be counted, what happens next, and can Trump employ the power of the Supreme Court to thwart a Biden victory? David Millward explores the options. |
| | | | We all now face an unwelcome re-run of the dark days of spring but don't despair, our ultimate lockdown 2 survival guide will help you through the coming weeks. |
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| | | It's 100 pages long, makes little literal sense and had only been officially solved by three people. Susannah Goldbrough gets to the bottom of this 100-year-old puzzle. (Free to read) |
| | After suffering in silence for three years, Sheila Hancock tells Jasper Rees about her crippling arthritis and why it won’t cramp her style.
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