Richard Pooley4 minHow pathetic! Have you no empathy?“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...
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...
Dr. Mark Nicholson7 minDodging acronyms and Ebola in UgandaI 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...
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...
Eric Boa5 minHow do we know what to eat?We’re coming to the end of mushroom season here in the UK. My most recent find was Lepista nuda, commonly known as blewits...
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.
Richard Pooley6 min“I’ve had enough of talentless people” -Why can’t the Brits have competent politicians? “Maybe you should put your name forward,” said the woman at my door. She had just handed me a wad of leaflets produced by my local...
Michael Carberry9 minWhat’s wrong with housing in Britain?The calamitous British government’s “mini budget” perceptively analysed by my colleague Stoker in the last edition of Only Connect, which...