In Pictures…Mad Mods and a Camera
Duncan James, an art director at a London based advertising agency, is spending a year capturing the lives of Mods and Mod culture.
VIDEO – Tory Nicky Morgan’s Car Crash Response to Disability Cuts
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Senior Tory Nicky Morgan struggled on Question Time when she was asked a series of questions about the Government's £4.4bn cut to PIP (Personal Independence Payments) to disabled people, while offering tax cuts to middle class households and big business. Morgan, who is the Education ...
Fun in Fukuoka
Sean Sheehan travels 700 miles south of Tokyo Fukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city, is a refreshing alternative to the ultramodern, neon-lit skyscrapers and anime shops of the bustling capital. Compared to Tokyo, where you have to strain your neck to see the sky, its low-rise cityscape feels liberating. Surrounded on three sides by ...
Run: Theatre Review
There is a term in banking circles called the “magic roundabout”, which is when a taxi drives you home from work at 7am, waits for you while you shower and change and then takes you back to the office. It’s every intern’s nightmare. In a job where 100 hour weeks ...
Restaurant Review – Tokimeite
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food If some sort of culinary prohibition were introduced, limiting each national cuisine to be served only within its own motherland and thus forbidding any nation to serve even the slightest morsel of foreign food - would you choose to stay in Britain? It’s a ...
Disability charity forces out Tory Zac Goldsmith over ESA cuts
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Another Tory MP has been forced out as a patron of their chosen charity for supporting the ESA cuts. Now supremely wealthy Zac Goldsmth, and candidate for London Mayor, has been booted out of Richmond AID after he backed cutting £30 a week for people ...
Can Benitez save Newcastle?
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @davidjdewinter ‘How not to run a football club.’ This would surely be the title of Newcastle United’s memoirs of the last 10 years. They are the gift that keeps on giving – a soap opera that is so unbelievable ...
VIDEO – Chris Bryant makes dangers of coke joke at Osborne
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Today Labour MP Chris Bryant made a joke about George Osborne and Coke. Discussing, the Chancellor’s new sugar tax, he said he was glad Osborne had come round to the dangers of coke: ‘I’m delighted that finally the chancellor has realised the dangers of coke,' ...
The Financial Cost of Cancer
Lynda Thomas, chief executive at Macmillan Cancer Support, shares her thoughts on the financial impact of cancer and why the charity is launching a guide for the banking industry to help their most vulnerable customers. The cost of cancer Cancer is an expensive disease. Four in five (83%) patients are ...