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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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How to value a tree?
I know we all live in an increasingly international world but the last ten days have been unusually so for the tree-planter. On my 75th...
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Richard Pooley
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Never Assume?
“Never assume, because when you ASSUME, you make an ASS out of U and ME”. So said Felix Unger, a character in the US TV series The...
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Stoker
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Trump, Vance, and Newsom
No, not that slightly sleazy firm of solicitors in Penge that your neighbour is using in his boundary dispute. Not lawyers in Penge...
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Lynda Goetz
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New Zealand – from North to South
The planning started almost a year ago. We were to visit my daughter who has been working in New Zealand for the last three and a half...
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Richard Pooley
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Trump is Right…about one thing
“Unnecessary and stupid”, said Poland’s Donald Tusk of the other Donald T’s initial imposition of tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China and...
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Michael Carberry
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What does the Holocaust teach us?
On 27th January 2025 the world commemorated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz – Birkenau...
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Dr. Mark Nicholson
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Africa’s Wars: David and Goliath
A reader from overseas asked me to write something about the war in Africa. ‘Which war?’ I asked. Although there is trouble in the...
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Eric Boa
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The Marmite Tree: how Eucalyptus gained a bad reputation it does not deserve
There are two sharply opposing views on eucalypts, a genus of over 700 species native mainly to Australia, and mostly trees. A small...
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Stoker
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Papal Bull
To escape the dullness of January and the deep despair of the anti-Trumpers – “He moved the whole thing inside so nobody could see how...
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Richard Despard
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The Greatest Threat from China – its control of Rare Earth Elements
Last month I wrote to Only Connect’s editor, Richard Pooley, asking: ‘Where was the leadership and strategy plan that the EU’s Brussels...
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