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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...
Richard Despard
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Britain: What Hope for 2025?
As we enter 2025, it is getting increasingly hard to feel optimistic about my country. The gulf between those in government and the...
Lynda Goetz
7 min read
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Crime and Punishment in East Africa
The internet tells us that the five most crime-ridden countries in the world are Haiti, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Venezuela and...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
7 min read
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Trump 2.0
Ms Harris having, somewhat disappointingly, failed to lead a march of angry Bidenites (Joeists?) to storm the Capitol, it looks as though...
Stoker
4 min read
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How to restore a rain forest … or when you can’t see the trees for the forest
So you think it’s easy? Just stick in a few seeds and seedlings and wait a couple of decades. Well, it ain’t. We have been creating a...
Dr. Mark Nicholson
6 min read
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