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Richard Despard
9 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...
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Lynda Goetz
7 min read
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...
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Denis Lyons
12 min read
Watch Your Language!
Sensational headlines about the rising toxic tide of Americanisms inundating our defenceless language produce predictable, periodic...
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Stoker
4 min read
Dreaming of Eden Â
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...
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Michael Carberry
8 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...
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