A few years ago, I was returning by car to Washington from Baltimore when I took a wrong turn and got lost. Suddenly I found myself in a street where gangs of black youths were hanging around on street corners outside houses with boarded up windows. Continue reading…
Category Archives: Journalism
Time to get tough with Big Food over sugars
There’s an ad at Eastern Market Metro station on the Hill promoting Pepsi True. It tells passers-by that the soda has “NO High Fructose Corn Syrup”, the sweetener singled out by some obesity experts in recent years for contributing to the explosion in obesity and type 2 diabetes across the nation. Continue reading
Bettencourt corruption trial rocked by defendant’s suicide attempt
A corruption trial in which 10 people are accused of trying to defraud France’s richest woman is in danger of unravelling before it begins after one of the defendants attempted to kill himself. Continue reading…
Nutella not a girl’s name, French court rules
A French court has barred a couple from naming their daughter Nutella after the popular hazelnut chocolate spread. Continue reading…
French Jewish exodus: “in two months we’ll be called filthy Jews again”
Félix Freoa was already intending to emigrate to Israel with his wife and four children in March or April. He and his family have been planning the move for the last couple of years. But after Friday’s deadly hostage-taking at a kosher supermarket they know well, they could wait no longer, and brought forward their departure. “That afternoon, we applied to go next month,” said Félix. Continue reading…
Anne Penketh 