Gatwick, Britain’s second busiest airport, has been thrown into chaos over the past few days because a series of drone sightings in the area meant hundreds of flights had to be cancelled or delayed. An estmiated 200,000 of these devices are sold for civilian use around the world each month, so incidents of this kind are likely to become more common. The question is, what do we do about it?  

There’s trouble at the White House too, where defence secretary James Mattis has resigned following Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pull US troops out of Syria. His departure is certain to have very serious repercussions.

Christmas is a gruelling, sweat-inducing, highly competitive contest that can cause serious injury if you fail to stretch adequately. Those who make it to the finish line can take home glittering trophies but only at great personal sacrifice. And you need to wear lycra at all times. Well, ok, this is actually a description of an elite sports tournament rather than the festive period. But we learnt this week that if you want to make a success of your celebrations, you should follow a similar training programme to a top athlete.

It’s 50 years since the astronauts of Apollo 8 peered out of their spacecraft’s window and took their legendary photograph of Earth, bright blue against an infinite black universe. They perhaps didn’t know, though, that their picture was first imagined thousands of years ago. In the first century BC, Roman philosopher Cicero wrote of a dream about looking back down at our home planet “shining with borrowed light” amid other “glorious and wonderful” bodies and realising how small it, and we, really are.

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