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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...

If you choose sweet, you’ll be eating Ipomea batatas. A similarly shaped but different tasting vegetable to Solanum tuberosum, the common...

I am writing this on the first day of 2017 in the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. In the Western calendar it is September 11, a day that...

What does a prolific author and television presenter of popular histories, biographies, novels and children’s books but who has also...

My immediate reaction to that question is “certainly not” or at least “I hope not”. I had to search online for a definition of the word...