Follow us: facebook-euroweeklynews Twitter-theeuroweekly Google Plus - euroweeklynews RSS-euroweeklynews

Euro Weekly News | Nora Johnson

WITH yet another celebrity arrest – the 73 year-old comedian, Jimmy Tarbuck - over an alleged assault dating back to the 1970s, you have to ask yourself when is this celebrity-targeting going to end? Whilst I don’t condone what Tarbuck or his fellow celebrities are accused of, I do have…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
THE odd reader may recall I’ve written about TripAdvisor before.  Maybe some normal ones too. And that just mentioning it gets my blood pressure up. Now, I’ve warned you: don't get me started! Oh, OK then ... If you fancy dining in London, you’ll be regaled with a choice of…
Published in Nora Johnson
1
ANOTHER week. Another poll. You’ve doubtless seen press headlines like this: “Coalition faces local election disaster with UKIP now fourth UK party.”  Another distortion of the UK voting system. And another set of conclusions which mean little in reality.  Well, if ahead of this week’s local elections, voters actually experienced…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
DESPITE all the claims made by Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair of Britain becoming a classless society, along come researchers informing us that the old model of an upper, middle and working class has ‘fragmented’. Apparently there are seven classes ranging from the ‘elite’ to the ‘precariat’. According to the…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
WARNING: the following contains strong language right from the start! What the f … Well, this is a family newspaper, after all, so I suppose I’d better tone it down a bit. What is happening is that I am angry.  So angry I need, once again, to lie down in…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
I WAS on the phone last night to Steven Spielberg. We were discussing my latest crime thriller, Retribution, which he’s optioned to direct and scheduled for a Hollywood red carpet première in spring 2014.  We talked about all the usual stuff.  Investors and rights, casting and locations. I said my…
Published in Nora Johnson
1
ACCORDING to a parenting website, modern childhood “ends at the age of 12”.  Netmums canvassed its members and received over a thousand responses blaming “marketing, media and peer pressure”. With the appalling spectacle of American over-made up, under-dressed children of four years old participating in "beauty pageants.” I'm surprised the…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
LAST week an email popped into my website inbox from someone called ‘Anita’. Nothing strange in that, I often get comments from readers of my novels as well as of this column. This email, though, was a bit different. It was accompanied by a photo of an extremely pretty, smiling…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
THE recent success in Eastleigh for anti-immigration party UKIP certainly caused a furore in Westminster for all three major parties. UK Work and Pensions Minister, Iain Duncan Smith, was forced to admit Britain faced a "crisis" of increased immigration from Rumania and Bulgaria once existing restrictions are lifted next January:…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
COUNTRIES hardest hit by Europe’s never ending financial crisis are also perceived to be among the most corrupt in Western Europe. Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index for 2012 shows Greece, Italy and Spain with the lowest public sector scoresof all 27 EU countries. Now, we’ve all heard anecdotes about corruption in Greece…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
NEWS that after four decades, doyenne of the kitchen Delia Smith is turning her back on TV cookery shows – fed up with having to ‘entertain’ rather than teach people to cook – to launch her own cookery school online came as no surprise. Telly’s now crammed with 'edgy' so-called…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
ST VALENTINE’S DAY didn’t start off associated with romance. Far from it. It began as a celebration of one or more (the exact number’s uncertain!) early Christian saints named Valentinus. According to one of the most popular accounts Saint Valentine was imprisoned for ministering to Christians who were persecuted under…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
SOME New York restaurants have banned diners from photographing their meals because they feel it’s distracting and spoils “the ambiance”. I suppose, then, it’ll be only a matter of time before the same ban hits UK restaurants. Now, there are many Brits who don't understand this need to take pictures…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
  INCREASING numbers of pupils can “hardly move, let alone catch or run” at age 11 according to Baroness Campbell, chairwoman of UK Sport. In a recent interview, she suggested that sport should figure as prominently in primary school timetables as literacy and numeracy.  I stopped reading there.  Strange! I…
Published in Nora Johnson
0
MY, how some great institutions in their heyday in the last century have already imploded – like Jimmy Savile – while others seem in freefall - like Marks & Spencer. With the latest media revelation - the Report published by the Metropolitan Police and the NSPCC on the extent of…
Published in Nora Johnson
0

Ads

How many EWN logos did you find in this week's newspaper

Newsletter Signup

Tomas Leigthon

Ads

British Press

German Press

Scandinavian Press

Russian Press

EWN Motors

ewn-lifestyle

ewn-business

All © EuroweeklyNews | EuroweeklyOnline. All rights reserved.