Editorial

DEAR friend, the mainstream media is sadly feeding us a daily diet of terrible images of death and destruction. These are images which perhaps many of us were not used to seeing, but which have unfortunately always been common in many countries...

BRUNO, a young Italian man who has lived in London for several years, is a great lover of charity shops, or thrift shops or whatever you want to call those shops that sell things that people have given them in order to raise funds for charitable purposes...

DEAR Friend, I think it’s quite incredible. In the face of the immense tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, one of the main things many countries have managed to think about, after humanitarian, economic and military aid to the assailed country, is their own rearmament...

WHEN I was in high school I had a classmate, Diego, who was very fond of butterflies...

DEAR friend, maybe you didn’t know, but Pope Francis is a great music lover. He is known to like Beethoven, Mozart and Bach – and even tango music from his native Argentina...

I’m sure you have wondered why we are always getting distressing news; is it possible that nothing good ever happens? I once posed this question to a famous journalist...