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On 11th May, a momentous event took place in Palestine on the outskirts of the Jenin Camp. I refer to the cold-blooded killing of a...

Jane, my recently-widowed 95-year old mother-in-law didn’t say exactly “Burn my love letters!”. But close enough...

George Bernard Shaw once wrote that England and the USA were “two countries divided by a common tongue”. But what happens when one...

From 1970 to 1971 I was a volunteer teacher in Botswana, eager to visit other countries. At the end of the first term I headed off with...

“Your custom is important to us” the disembodied voice tells you as you’re left hanging on the phone indefinitely...

In my article in Only Connect on 20 April 2022, The Falklands War – Victory or Catastrophe, I concluded that, taking an objective look...

The first thing you really must do – if it’s still possible – is to book a seat for yourself and your partner or best friend at your...

1963. There I am, 19 years old, convinced, on the strength of one school Shakespeare, that I would be welcomed as god’s gift to...

The mother of one of my friends once told us about the tragedy of dealing with her mother-in-law, who struggled with Alzheimer's...

Not long after my wife and I came to live in the village of Vayrac in south-west France in 2013 we set up an English-French group...