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Big Brother

6th January 2007 by Helena 3 Comments  

RivetingI switched on my computer this morning to check out the news. What is one of the lead stories on the BBC website? The improbably named singer Donny Tourette has escaped from the Big Brother house by jumping over a fence. This is news? Hellloooo? Who cares? I read on and learnt that this is not just any Big Brother, it’s CELEBRITY Big Brother – so the house is still full of people I’ve never heard of, with the possible exception of Leo Sayer, bless him, who can forget a man with a hairstyle that bad. How did this happen? How did we suddenly become a nation obsessed with the trite activities of a bunch of less than interesting adults caged together like monkeys in a zoo?

Orwell got it all wrong. The nightmare vision of the future is not that Big Brother is watching you, but that everyone is watching Big Brother….


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3 thoughts on Big Brother

  • Marta says:
    7th January 2007 at 6:45 pm

    så sant, kusin vitamin! Frågan är bara vem som ligger bakom, jag menar, en befolkning som bryr sig mer om dokusåpor än politik är hyfsat lättmanövrerade, och det kan ju vara praktiskt, tycker vissa……

  • Ella says:
    8th January 2007 at 7:57 pm

    Translation of Marta’s blog since I think it needs to be read not only by Swedes: so true cousin vitamine! The question is only who is behind, I mean, a population who cares more about reality TV than politics are rather easily manouvered, which is practical, some people think….

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

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So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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