For the last twenty years I have been a regular entrant in the weekly competition in the New Statesman [the “Staggers” in inane public school slang].  Here are some of my entries which won, or which I thought ought to have won. Thanks to the New Statesman for setting such interesting challenges, which are reproduced before the entries.

• 1996-2015: New Statesman Competition Anthology
• 1996: No 3424
• 1998: No 3524
• 1998: No 3533
• 1998: No 3536
• 1998: No 3544
• 1998: No 3556
• 1998: No 3557
• 1999: No 3558
• 1999: No 3562
• 1999: No 3564
• 1999: No 3565
• 1999: No 3573
• 1999: No 3583
• 1999: No 3586
• 2000: No 3615
• 2000: No 3616
• 2000: No 3626
• 2000: No 3644
• 2001: No 3694
• 2001: No 3697
• 2001: No 3698
• 2002: No 3713
• 2002: No 3727
• 2002: No 3729
• 2002: No 3730
• 2002: No 3733
• 2002: No 3753
• 2003: No 3766
• 2003: No 3784
• 2004: No 3815
• 2004: No 3817
• 2004: No 3820
• 2004: No 3852
• 2004: No 3857
• 2004: No 3858
• 2005: No 3872
• 2005: No 3876
• 2005: No 3905
• 2010: No 4150
• 2011: No 4163
• 2016 : No 4433