Euro Weekly News | Nora Johnson
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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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…
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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…
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AT first I thought they were early (yes, really early!) April Fool’s jokes. Then that both stories had been dreamed up by reporters in the aftermath of huge New Year’s Eve hangovers. And yes, that can happen, believe me! But no, both reports were quite true. The first concerns a…
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LOOKING back over 2012, what stands out for you? Take away the Jubilee/ Olympics temporary feel good factor and it was a pretty awful year, especially for those flooded out of homes and businesses (some more than once) and those out of jobs. It was another year, too, of political…
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IT always mystifies me how I can pay a small fortune for a minuscule room in a trendy hotel in London and feel less at home than in my own home! I dislike the faux environmental concern of: "Washing towels wastes water and is bad for the environment." It also…
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LOOKING back over the past few years, you really couldn’t credit the number of examples of extreme political correctness in Britain. Like the teachers at one Scottish school who banned children from cheering their team on sports day in case those who came last felt humiliated. Or the Birmingham primary…
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EVER checked out of a hotel, travelled home, and then realized you left something behind in the room? An international sampling of 500 hotels has uncovered the oddest things left behind this year. While nearly 25 per cent reported finding more and more forgotten iPads, laptops and smartphones, 10 per cent…
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