Our Relationship with Death: What the Archie case tells us
The accident suffered by the British 12-year-old boy, Archie Battersbee, on 7 April at his home in Southend, England...
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Richard Pooley
- 5 min
Why 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...
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Michael Carberry
- 7 min
Good 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...
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Stoker
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Take 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...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
- 6 min
"My country is wherever I am well off". Why Cicero was right and Horace wrong
July and August have been great months for sport: athletics, golf, soccer and tennis especially. In one of his...
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Richard Pooley
- 8 min
Host 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...
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Vincent Guy
- 7 min
The 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.
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Michael Carberry
- 7 min
Up 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...
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Eric Boa
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Oh No! – Not Another Pandemic!
Crab-eating or long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) at the Angkor Wat temple complex, Cambodia. Monkeypox was first...
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Vincent Guy
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“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.
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