In 1993, Sylvester Stallone was going through, shall we say, a challenging period. He’d had a few box office disappointments. The Rocky series seemed to have played itself out with 1990’s poorly received fifth entry, and Stallone had attempted to shift into comedy, making disastrous choices in Oscar and Stop ...
What is a terrorist? Someone who uses violence or intimidation for political ends? Noam Chomsky's remark ”It's only terrorism if they do it to us" points to the reason the UN have never been able to agree a definition – western governments and their allies routinely use violence and intimidation ...
In 2017 the concept of ‘fake news’ swept the world and became the Collins word of the year. Now in 2018 a new book takes the concept a step further – fake travel which readers will be desperate to believe is real. The Bespokist Society - a mysterious collective based ...
According to Pew Research Center, millennials comprise 35% of the US workforce, as well as being the largest generation of consumers. This means that they have the means to pay for what they want. Young people aged 17-34 today will spend more than $200 billion annually starting in 2017, and $10 ...
TLE's ultimate guide to the best things to do in Scottsdale, Arizona - from learning how to become a cowboy to riding a hot air balloon in the desert. In Scottsdale, you can do things you probably thought you never would, like attend a college exclusively for aspiring cowboys, or ...
If someone had told me two weeks ago that the best film I would see at this year’s Cannes Film Festival would be a garish, blood-soaked exploitation thriller starring Nic Cage, I probably would have snorted at you with the sort of jeering derision reserved almost exclusively for certain members ...
Even Abraham Maslow missed the most important human point. When that renowned American psychologist, studied by virtually every social sciences student ever since he published his 1943 paper ‘A Theory of Human Motivation’, listed his pyramid of human needs he stated that at its base the edifice was founded upon ...
Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaüm isn’t a subtle film, but it’s one that will hit you hard. The story of a young boy navigating the slums of Beirut, it’s an idealistic but well-intentioned attempt to try and confront some of the pre-established socio-political structures within Lebanon; a country where you need a ...
Coercive Control - a form of abuse in a relationship that works not through physical violence but threats and other means of controlling a partner’s behaviour - only became a crime in the UK in late 2015. I don’t think it’s a commonly used description, or a crime, in much ...