Mr Norris was an astute entrepreneur. The bookshop which was his official line of work was fitted with a sofa-bed in the back room where he could sleep during the day after his nights spent serving at the bar of his club. The bookshop was down an ill-signposted alley off a dingy street in an unfashionable part of the city. Mr Norris chose it because he had heard that location was all-important in business. He was rarely disturbed by customers. Mr Norris encouraged his wife to participate in bingo, art classes and aerobics, since she deserved time for herself after “slaving in the house” most of the week. This allowed him to receive deliveries and keep the bar in order, and occasionally even buy more books for his neglected bookshop. This far-sighted man had even provided the puppy next door (he had asked for one with a particularly loud yap) as a Christmas present from a mysterious uncle in the Highlands, and had then thoughtfully given his wife a pair of earplugs. He had really thought of everything but, at 5 o'clock in the morning, after a busy night in the bar talking to Gentleman McNoltie about the antiques reproduction business, he had forgotten to check that he had put the tile back properly..
1)Choose a theme. This should ideally be love or peace, or both. Hope, unity and celebration are also acceptable. If singing about unity, make sure you throw in a few phrases in various European languages to show that you've made the effort. If, however, these themes are a bit too saccharine for you, it is acceptable to sing about plain old-fashioned sexual attraction. In this case, try and make sure your main singer is reasonably attractive, otherwise it could backfire.
More and more things are coming and have come under the control of global rather than national forces. The international narcotics trade is too large, powerful and geographically widespread to be effectively tackled by individual nations, so organisations such as Interpol, the Senior Experts Group on Transnational Organised Crime and the United Nations Drug Control Programme deal with them instead. International treaties on such issues as environmental protection, child labour and slavery, often enforced by trade sanctions, mean that a form of global governance holds sway over and above individual nations' sovereignty. In response to this, many local regions, ethnic groups and even individual cities seek to increase their influence through representation within these wider ruling bodies. This is particularly noticeable in the European Union, in which regions of the UK can interact directly with their counterparts in Europe, rather than going through Westminster, and cities such as Birmingham and Glasgow send representatives to Brussels.
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