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Eric Boa
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In Harmony
The first pop songs I remember are Mark Wynter singing Venus in Blue Jeans on Top of the Pops, a UK television show featuring the latest...
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Denis Lyons
12 min read
Watch Your Language!
Sensational headlines about the rising toxic tide of Americanisms inundating our defenceless language produce predictable, periodic...
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Richard Pooley
8 min read
Cockerels, Bells and Shitty Smells “A way of life, not a museum.”
When my wife and I moved to France in 2013, we spent the first seven months in a rented house on the southern edge of Brive-la-Gaillarde...
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Stoker
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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...
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Michael Carberry
8 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...
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Stoker
5 min read
Game, Set, and Match
by Stoker Last month we refused to predict the winner of the American Presidential election, and the reader, looking between the lines,...
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Richard Pooley
7 min read
Just say Yes.
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...
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Eric Boa
5 min read
What’s for dinner: sweet or Irish?
If you choose sweet, you’ll be eating Ipomea batatas. A similarly shaped but different tasting vegetable to Solanum tuberosum, the common...
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Lynda Goetz
7 min read
Patriotism is not Far-Right Racism
My Only Connect colleague Michael Carberry and I have never met. I’m sure that were we to do so we would find we had lots in common...
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Vincent Guy
10 min read
My Tour of Babel
The first language I gave up on was my mother tongue, or rather my mother’s tongue: German. I’m 4 years old riding in the back of a...
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