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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...

Let me upset any British reader who voted in 2016 to leave the European Union in order to reduce immigration (sorry...

We’re coming to the end of mushroom season here in the UK. My most recent find was Lepista nuda, commonly known as blewits...

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...

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...

One of the charms of rural Britain is the number of relatively unspoilt market towns that litter the hinterlands of the great cities.

“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...

The calamitous British government’s “mini budget” perceptively analysed by my colleague Stoker in the last edition of Only Connect, which...

“You could buy a shoe box in Mayfair...” Such was the strapline of an advertisement by ‘Locate Guernsey’ in the House & Home section...

The editor requested this month a commentary on the United Kingdom Conservative government’s new senior management...