This week basically sees the end of the school holidays or summer vacation. We took the opportunity therefore to take our grandson to the coast. The English coastal resorts are usually a lot of fun.
It was, I believe, Harold Macmillan when as prime minister of the United Kingdom he was asked by a journalist what was most likely to blow his government off course.
Returning home after 10 valuable days in Sweden it was with a sense of relief that we embraced the newspapers and tuned in to BBC news programmes, both radio and television.
Until this month we, that is my wife and I, had together been to Sweden just once before and enjoyed the visit very much in spite of it being in the middle of winter.
The Sunday Times for 25th July reported that astronomers are excited by the latest results from a deep space satellite camera which indicates that the Milky Way may contain 100 million habitable plane
The other day came the news that scientists have discovered a sun which is 250 times bigger than our sun. I wonder if you heard it also – if you did, then what thoughts did that generate?
In the last Letter from London we focussed on the subject of lawlessness and how lawless this world is today. It is probably true to say that it is beyond being lawless!
With the news as bad as it is these days one might be tempted to fly to somewhere nice in southern Europe, or even America, there to sit in the sun and just get away from it all.
I expect that you, like many in what we call the western world, enjoy a holiday and once winter is past will begin to trawl through the newspaper holiday supplements to get some ideas of where to go f
Thankfully the diversions that have served to take hard news off the television screens, the radio stations and national newspapers of the world in general are now coming to an end, with the one excep
It seems to me that the English have, over the past 7 days or so, become somewhat distracted and not as aware as they should be as to what is happening in the big, wide world around them.
For some time now there has been on BBC television in England, a series on wildlife, specifically, about bird life in the south west and south east of England.
You will, as you read this News Review, or are listening right now to it on selected radio stations and broadcast across the internet, become even more aware of the dreadful state this planet is in.
