Richard Pooley5 min readWhy can’t we blame Brexit, even partly?My 95-year old mother-in-law moved from her home of fifty or so years to a care home outside Bath, UK, exactly eleven weeks ago...
Michael Carberry7 min readGood Health – but at what price? In last month’s edition of Only Connect (13 July, 2022) I took issue with Stoker’s article lauding the merits of capitalism, not because...
Stoker6 min readTake The Free (Enterprise) Road No doubt it must bring much amusement to our readers to find Only Connect’s writers – kept, as PG Wodehouse noted of his time...
Dr. Mark Nicholson6 min read"My country is wherever I am well off". Why Cicero was right and Horace wrongJuly and August have been great months for sport: athletics, golf, soccer and tennis especially. In one of his...
Richard Pooley8 min readHost a Ukrainian!by Richard Pooley Our Ukrainians, Tanya and her 15-year old son, Daniel, have been in our house in Bath, UK, since 13 June. I was told...
Vincent Guy7 min readThe Men Who Knew Everything“But Vincent, you know everything”. My colleague was taken aback to find there was indeed a serious gap in my collection of mental trivia.
Michael Carberry7 min readUp with Capitalism! Up with Regulation of Capitalism!Firstly, the premise that lots of people believe that “capitalism has failed” must be questioned. Of course, there are people in bars...
Eric Boa5 min readOh No! – Not Another Pandemic!Crab-eating or long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) at the Angkor Wat temple complex, Cambodia. Monkeypox was first...
Vincent Guy6 min read“A Soft Answer turneth away Wrath.”I’d been teaching English in Milan. Two colleagues, Gary and Andrew, driving home to UK for Christmas, invite me to join them.
Stoker6 min readDown with Capitalism! Really? Walk into any bar - anywhere in the world probably, but certainly from personal and friends’ experiences, in Britain, New York,