Dodging acronyms and Ebola in Uganda
I am just back from Uganda, a country I love but which is not the holiday destination of the month: there is an Ebola outbreak there...
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Richard Pooley
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“We don’t have enough Brits to go round?”
Let me upset any British reader who voted in 2016 to leave the European Union in order to reduce immigration (sorry...
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Eric Boa
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How do we know what to eat?
We’re coming to the end of mushroom season here in the UK. My most recent find was Lepista nuda, commonly known as blewits...
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Lynda Goetz
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Failing Health
The UK’s National Health Service (N.H.S.) is not fit for purpose. It does not work for those it is supposed to work for and it does...
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Michael Carberry
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UK Government Housing Policy and the “Right to Buy”
n the last issue of Only Connect I asked, “What’s wrong with housing in Britain?” and argued that as shelter is one of the most basic...
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Stoker
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Barton where? Ted who?
One of the charms of rural Britain is the number of relatively unspoilt market towns that litter the hinterlands of the great cities.
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Richard Pooley
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“I’ve had enough of talentless people” -Why can’t the Brits have competent politicians?
“Maybe you should put your name forward,” said the woman at my door. She had just handed me a wad of leaflets produced by my local...
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Michael Carberry
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What’s wrong with housing in Britain?
The calamitous British government’s “mini budget” perceptively analysed by my colleague Stoker in the last edition of Only Connect, which...
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Richard Pooley
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Managing Digital Nomads: You gotta trust ‘em
“You could buy a shoe box in Mayfair...” Such was the strapline of an advertisement by ‘Locate Guernsey’ in the House & Home section...
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Stoker
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A Catastrophic Start for Truss – can it only get worse for the Tories and better for Labour?
The editor requested this month a commentary on the United Kingdom Conservative government’s new senior management...
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