Something was wrong with Philip Eden’s voice on Radio 5 last might; I do hope it is just a summer cold or hay fever, nothing more troubling than that.
It was sobering to hear him tell of the numbers of deaths there have been recently through exceptionally heavy rain, not just in the south of France but in countries as far apart as China, Ghana & Bangladesh – probably Myanmar too, though not much news gets out of there.
Most of the time we are deemed to have no interest in events so far away, our own problems so much more pressing.
