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In Harmony
The first pop songs I remember are Mark Wynter singing Venus in Blue Jeans on Top of the Pops, a UK television show featuring the latest...
Eric Boa
5 min read
Watch Your Language!
Sensational headlines about the rising toxic tide of Americanisms inundating our defenceless language produce predictable, periodic...
Denis Lyons
12 min read
Cockerels, Bells and Shitty Smells “A way of life, not a museum.”
When my wife and I moved to France in 2013, we spent the first seven months in a rented house on the southern edge of Brive-la-Gaillarde...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
Dreaming of Eden
The point of winter, I have always thought, is to have a Mr Badger attitude. No doubt most of Only Connect’s readers are well acquainted...
Stoker
4 min read
The Right to Die is Wrong
Last month, on 29 November, the British House of Commons, the lower house of the UK Parliament, passed a Private Members Bill* put...
Michael Carberry
8 min read
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