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In my article in Only Connect on 20 April 2022, The Falklands War – Victory or Catastrophe, I concluded that, taking an objective look...

The first thing you really must do – if it’s still possible – is to book a seat for yourself and your partner or best friend at your...

1963. There I am, 19 years old, convinced, on the strength of one school Shakespeare, that I would be welcomed as god’s gift to...

The mother of one of my friends once told us about the tragedy of dealing with her mother-in-law, who struggled with Alzheimer's...

Not long after my wife and I came to live in the village of Vayrac in south-west France in 2013 we set up an English-French group...

This month marks the fortieth anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina on 2 April...

Among my vivid memories of schooldays are some cutting comments from my teachers. They seemed harsh at the time. Reflecting on them now...

Our two youngest were here in Kenya from South Africa for the Easter holidays. We came back from up-country...

At the end of his article on the French presidential election in the last issue David Lee quoted the well-known opening couplet of a poem...

If I had painted the above, I think it would be a considerable improvement on a Mondriaan, but I didn’t.