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The UK’s previous prime minister, Boris Johnson, had this to say on his most recent visit to Kyiv: “While [the British] people are paying...

As expected, Liz Truss has now come out top in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the British Conservative Party...

Earlier this summer my husband, Marcus, and I, together with two friends, finally set off on a Covid-postponed cruise, flying to...

In ancient times, Editors would firmly cease fisticuffs in their august columns by declaiming: "This correspondence will now cease".

The accident suffered by the British 12-year-old boy, Archie Battersbee, on 7 April at his home in Southend, England...

My 95-year old mother-in-law moved from her home of fifty or so years to a care home outside Bath, UK, exactly eleven weeks ago...

In last month’s edition of Only Connect (13 July, 2022) I took issue with Stoker’s article lauding the merits of capitalism, not because...

No doubt it must bring much amusement to our readers to find Only Connect’s writers – kept, as PG Wodehouse noted of his time...

July and August have been great months for sport: athletics, golf, soccer and tennis especially. In one of his...

by Richard Pooley Our Ukrainians, Tanya and her 15-year old son, Daniel, have been in our house in Bath, UK, since 13 June. I was told...