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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...
Richard Pooley
5 min read
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
9 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
A cry of anger from the back of beyond
The death last month of Shaw Sheet, the magazine I used to write for, made me review some of the 89 articles I contributed to it. One...
Richard Pooley
8 min read
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