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Last month I wrote to Only Connect’s editor, Richard Pooley, asking: ‘Where was the leadership and strategy plan that the EU’s Brussels...

As we enter 2025, it is getting increasingly hard to feel optimistic about my country. The gulf between those in government and the...

The internet tells us that the five most crime-ridden countries in the world are Haiti, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and...

Ms Harris having, somewhat disappointingly, failed to lead a march of angry Bidenites (Joeists?) to storm the Capitol, it looks as though...

So you think it’s easy? Just stick in a few seeds and seedlings and wait a couple of decades. Well, it ain’t. We have been creating a...

The first pop songs I remember are Mark Wynter singing Venus in Blue Jeans on Top of the Pops, a UK television show featuring the latest...

Sensational headlines about the rising toxic tide of Americanisms inundating our defenceless language produce predictable, periodic...

When my wife and I moved to France in 2013, we spent the first seven months in a rented house on the southern edge of Brive-la-Gaillarde...

The point of winter, I have always thought, is to have a Mr Badger attitude.  No doubt most of Only Connect’s readers are well acquainted...

Last month, on 29 November, the British House of Commons, the lower house of the UK Parliament, passed a Private Members Bill* put...