By Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada The beer magnate Freddy Heineken was kidnapped in 1983 and held hostage for three weeks leading to the largest ransom payment of Dutch history. This dramatisation of the events stars Anthony Hopkins as Heineken and sets out as an action-packed thriller, but then frays out into ...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent This Sunday the River Thames will host the 160th boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Along with Wimbledon Tennis Championships, the FA Cup final and the Open Championship it is one of the most quintessentially British sporting events to be hosted each year. For ...
By Shilpa Ganatra When done right, spa retreats are heaven on earth, a place where every desire is an indulgence in the guise of wellbeing. When done wrong, it leaves the guest more frustrated and less zen than when they entered the doors - with their pockets lighter too. ...
by Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada Ethan Hawke lends his tortured face to the despairing former fighter pilot Major Tom Egan in Good Kill, a drama about drone warfare. Although an experienced soldier, he finds it hard to treat blowing people up like a normal day job, driving home from the army ...
By Daniel Mackenzie (@EkcaLiena) The recent drama surrounding Glastonbury's decision to book childish bigot Kanye West as a festival headliner was pretty funny, wasn't it? I personally couldn't give a shit about it. Partly because anything Kanye does is so off my radar it might as well not exist; ...
By Ellery Nick @Ellery__Nick Viggo Mortensen stars alongside the scene-stealing rocks of Argentina’s Patagonia region as he sets off to reclaim his daughter Ingeborg who has lost herself to the desert and arms of a young lover. Mortensen plays Gunnar Dinesen, a Danish Captain as rusty as his sword; more interested ...
By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle I'm pretty terrible at accessorising - I tend to focus on an outfit as shoes and clothes, and any accessorising I do is almost always an afterthought. With the below guide, however, necklaces might become my (and your!) new thing! This could really set ...
By Ian Hunt, MD Gabbitas Education With former tutors including famous names such as H G Wells, Graeme Greene, Evelyn Waugh and Edward Elgar, Gabbitas is the oldest tutoring institution in the world. We have a rich and respected history in the world of tutoring and our clients have included ...
By Lucy Gill, Director of Apps and Technology at Fundamentally Children In the modern world most of us adults are never far away from a screen, whether that’s a mobile, tablet, computer screen or TV but are these devices suitable for children? Views on this are often polarised: should you ...