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Stoker
5 min read
Game, Set, and Match  Â
by Stoker  Last month we refused to predict the winner of the American Presidential election, and the reader, looking between the lines,...
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Richard Pooley
7 min read
Just say Yes.
Three years ago my wife’s step-father needed to have 24-hour care in the Cotswolds cottage where he and my mother-in-law lived. However...
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Eric Boa
5 min read
What’s for dinner: sweet or Irish?
If you choose sweet, you’ll be eating Ipomea batatas. A similarly shaped but different tasting vegetable to Solanum tuberosum, the common...
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Lynda Goetz
7 min read
Patriotism is not Far-Right Racism
My Only Connect colleague Michael Carberry and I have never met. I’m sure that were we to do so we would find we had lots in common...
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Vincent Guy
10 min read
My Tour of Babel
The first language I gave up on was my mother tongue, or rather my mother’s tongue: German. I’m 4 years old riding in the back of a...
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