But, sadly, not everyone nowadays enjoys holidays in healthy ways. A recent TV news clip showed Crete's Malia scenic beach absolutely deserted on a summer morning during the busy tourist season.

No, it wasn't because increased airfares had made tourists decide to stay in Britain. Nor because the many young British tourists who were swamping Malia had sensibly decided to avoid long spells on the beach for fear of skin cancer and were engaging in more constructive pursuits like investigating the local historical ruins.

It was because they were all stone drunk in the morning after a riotous night out which had caused havoc in the neighbourhood.

One wonders why these drink addicts bother to go abroad when they hardly see the light of day when they arrive and have no interest at all in the local scenery, customs or history.

Could they not just continue to disrupt our own city centres nightly without bothering to leave the country?

The sad answer is that they are solely attracted to the cheep booze available in these resorts.

What a sad reflection on today's youth whose future prospects seem massively over-shadowed by drink-related illnesses.

Yet all this, astoundingly, is condoned by the older generation, which should know better.

The GMTV news clip on Malia was preceded by an interview with actor Steven Berkoff who had feigned a heart attack for a British Heart Foundation advert.

Mr Berkoff blamed the large incidence of heart attacks on the media, which glorified unhealthy lifestyles.

Yet only minutes later GMTV presenter Kate Garraway condoned the Brits' loutish behaviour in Crete as possibly just a matter of age, suggesting that maybe when you are young it is OK to have fun without a thought of later consequences!

Hey, what about the effect of excessive drinking on blood pressure which increases the risk of heart attacks, Kate?

This is just one more example of contemporary moral relativism in which media presenters are reluctant to label anything intrinsically bad.

I noticed the same phenomenon on a Radio 5 discussion on the recent report on the incidence of pests in hospitals.

As listeners phoned in with their opinions the presenter kept insisting that maybe pests in hospitals were just a fact of life to which we had to accommodate ourselves.

It's about time we brought back the phrase "zero tolerance" in relation to societal dangers like hospital pests and drunken orgies, as well as under-age and promiscuous sex as one contributor bravely suggested on a Woman's Hour discussion last week on sex education in primary schools.

The point about moral relativism was well made, not only repeatedly by our Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks but also by Christina Odone reviewing David Lebedoff's book The Same Man in The Times.

Christina claims literary right-winger Evelyn Waugh and left-winger George Orwell shared the same nightmare vision of a future Britain being ruled by a new elite whose values would not be that of the "traditional moral code".

Christina writes: "It sounds all too familiar today. Now political correctness has replaced morality.

"No one would dare call a teenage mugger or a knife-wielding gang member wicked.

"To judge in terms of traditional morality is automatically to be censorious, which in turn automatically earns you pariah status."

Thank God we Jews who have always been a nation which has "dwelt alone" are not afraid of this pariah status and continue to be, despite all the challenges, a light unto the nations by sticking steadfastly to our moral values.

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