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“A human life will inevitably contain periods of pain and trauma, but [these Harvard professors] found that these moments can be weathered

When I arrived back in Jordan in 2004 it did not take one of my relatives too long to introduce me to new acquaintances and friends as...

Kenya. December 26, 2022 Yesterday was Christmas day. You wouldn’t think I would need to say that but in our family it always causes...

“Pathetic!” said my step father-in-law a couple of years ago. He’d just heard that my son had found his new girlfriend via Tinder...

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...

I am just back from Uganda, a country I love but which is not the holiday destination of the month: there is an Ebola outbreak there...

Let me upset any British reader who voted in 2016 to leave the European Union in order to reduce immigration (sorry...

We’re coming to the end of mushroom season here in the UK. My most recent find was Lepista nuda, commonly known as blewits...

The 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...

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...