By David Binder Alongside the more established parties, General Elections usually bring their fair share of serious and not so serious smaller parties, and 2015 is no exception. One party making something of a comeback is the Whig Party. Whilst to some the Whig name will illicit visions of politics of...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Police targeted, stores looted and havoc wreaked across the streets of Baltimore. The past week has been a mass of ugly pictures in Maryland as footage emerge from riots that broke out after the funeral of Freddie Gray, 25, who died after suffering a spinal injury...
By Ivan McKeever, CEO SwitchMyBusiness.com It is a political cliché that if every one of Britain’s 5.2 million small and micro firms were each helped to create one job, we would wipe out our unemployment problem. But what do those parties seeking our votes offer beyond tempting rhetoric at election...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent A new study has been released revealing the top 50 most boring things of modern life. Party Political Broadcasts, Fifty Shades of Grey and shopping channels have been hailed as life’s biggest bores according to a study which asked 2,000 adults about what causes them to...
By Rob Foster How has your career in investment informed your belief in equity, and how did you come to write the book? I started to have these conversations with colleagues a couple of years ago, based on the premise that equity is the only way to access newly created...
By Monkey Poet “What do you do?” “I'm a poet...” “I mean to put food on the table.” “I poet.” “....!!!!” I've had this conversation so many times over the last five years, I stopped counting at 'hundreds'. However, due to the current resurgence in Poetry's popularity, with John Cooper-Clarke...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Protein World's 'Beach Body Ready' campaign has kicked up such a big fuss of late you would have thought body-shaming was a new concept, but the reality is that the girl in the yellow bikini has merely drawn people's attention to a more prominent body...
By John Locke ( Warning!- Do not read this if you are of a squeamish personality) We leave the train on Sunday at Manchester Piccadilly after the lad has barked at every train stop on the journey, ( he also tried to eat a huge lurcher in the next compartment,...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Last week news filtered through that Japan's Maglev had set a speed record of 374 miles per hour. As plans are HS2 are unveiled in Britain, cutting journey time between London and Birmingham from 1hr 21min to 49min, the experimental magnetic levitation train looks set to slash times...