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As we enter 2025, it is getting increasingly hard to feel optimistic about my country. The gulf between those in government and the...

Sensational headlines about the rising toxic tide of Americanisms inundating our defenceless language produce predictable, periodic...

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...

Last month, on 29 November, the British House of Commons, the lower house of the UK Parliament, passed a Private Members Bill* put...

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...