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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
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...
Lynda Goetz
7 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
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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