Michael Carberry8 minThe UK housing crisis - What is to be done?In the last two issues of Only Connect, I have looked at the reasons behind the current severe housing crisis in the UK and how...
Richard Pooley7 min“We don’t have enough Brits to go round?”Let me upset any British reader who voted in 2016 to leave the European Union in order to reduce immigration (sorry...
Lynda Goetz6 minFailing HealthThe UK’s National Health Service (N.H.S.) is not fit for purpose. It does not work for those it is supposed to work for and it does...
Michael Carberry9 minUK Government Housing Policy and the “Right to Buy”n the last issue of Only Connect I asked, “What’s wrong with housing in Britain?” and argued that as shelter is one of the most basic...
Stoker6 minBarton where? Ted who?One of the charms of rural Britain is the number of relatively unspoilt market towns that litter the hinterlands of the great cities.