ZOMBIES

The film “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is showing soon in cinemas here. The reviews have been mixed, to say the least. I doubt that I will find time to see it. Talking of Zombies … …

We here in the UK have been following the various “activities” of the candidates in your forthcoming Presidential election on the TV news – amazing.

I have visited parts of the USA more than 10 times – many very attractive and worth seeing, and the American people are great.

But what strikes us here in the UK (and of course we have the BBC - www.bbc.co.uk/news - as our main news channel) is how isolated your people and many of your news channels in the States are from world news compared to us.

I recall visiting Virginia several years ago, and staying in a hotel where NO world news seemed to be featured on ANY of the popular TV channels. Putting one’s head in the sand is not a wise option in this very fast moving and sometimes threatening modern world?

As for having a popular presidential candidate (I will not name him) who does not seem to know anything about world affairs, and who has not only a very unfaithful marital history but also a very variable grasp of financial matters – no candidate to head the government in the UK (except perhaps the newly arrived Mr Corbyn, who will not be a “stayer”) would get anywhere for long here with that record.

An article in one of our “serious” newspapers -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world... -

suggests that someone who does know how the world works may stand as an independent. That would be a great relief to many people over here. We do not like to see our friends in the USA being misled.