Author: Jackie Edwards

Several years ago, DJ Terry Wogan, on his breakfast show (here in Great Britain), would jokingly say, “well of course I blame the Russians”. This would have been back in the late 70’s when the Cold War was in full swing, so it was quite a topical thing to say. And now in our present times, everything is being blamed on Brexit, President Trump – and of course, the Russians, who we are told were behind the reason for the British people voting to leave the EU, and for the American people voting in Donald Trump as their President....

“Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that (were) in the ship into the sea, to lighten (it) of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the Shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, 0 Sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not. ‘(Jonah 1:5-6) It occurred to me, that if we as a nation, felt the need (as we did...

Well, it’s old news now. The eclipse has come and gone and the world remains as unstable as it was before. Still, there were signs that should make us stand still and take notice. You know, back in August 1999, a total eclipse of the sun cut through the heart of the European Continent, having clipped the South-Western corner of Britain. That same year Nigel Farage, Leader of UKIP and an MEP, told the European Parliament that his intention was for Britain to leave the European Union. Seventeen years later, in 2016 Britain voted in a referendum to leave....