Out Of This World

On This Day In History
1987: Mikhail Gorbachev calls for nuclear weapons treaty

Quote Of The Day
"We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race."
(Mikhail Gorbachev)

How did we get from there to here? To think, for a couple of years there was a real chance that the Winds Of Change were perhaps bringing us to a new era of peace. Now we have Vladimir Putin putting his nuclear weapons on stand by.

For Book Week, teachers and pupils are taking photographs of themselves reading in funny places and sharing them with the whole school on a Google Slide. I shared mine with the class today and they dared to say that it was cropped and pasted! Pretty cynical for eight and nine year olds. Honestly, where is that youthful sense of wonder?