By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle I go to the pub on xmas eve, it's a tradition I have actively followed since I got fake ID, then I spend xmas morning moaning and ruining it for everyone else. This is my Christmas tradition and it will never die out, but...

Mike Deverell discusses five reasons why those with less end up paying more In Terry Pratchett’s “Men At Arms” there’s a passage which neatly encapsulates why it’s so expensive to be poor: “The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. “Take...

By Richard de Winter  @rgdewinter  @TLE_Sport Dear Santa, First of all, hope that all’s going well for you at this busy time of year, and that you’re not too swamped by the deluge of demands for an iPad from armies of over-privileged 6-year-olds with a worrying sense of entitlement.  Give...

Sport News 24/7 By Ian Caroll Newcastle United fans are ungrateful, deluded and fickle. You’ll already know this if you read the work of some of the finest journalistic minds of our age- Paddy Barclay, Rob ‘Shep’ Shepherd et al. Those deluded Geordies have actually dared to criticise Alan Pardew...

By Will Bateman, Music Reporter After releasing 2001’s genre defining Is This It? with The Strokes Julian Casablancas has struggled to match its impact, and more importantly appeared to struggle with his own artistic satisfaction with their output. His first solo outing, the synth-pop heavy Phrazes for The Young seemed...

By Elsa Buchanan, International Politics reporter They have been labelled "Nazis in pinstripes" by members of the government and rally by the thousands against asylum-seekers and the supposed threat of the "Islamification" of Germany. Yet, they are desperate to prove they are not racist to attract a wide range of supporters. Welcome into the world...

Sport News 24/7 By Adam Clark  @AdamClarkers  @TLE_Sport The Premier League is in a state of flux this season – or perhaps just the culmination of several years of change.  The Big 4 gradually changed to a Big 5, Big 6 and even a Big 7.  Nowadays, if we want...

Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara  @Sean_FootyMad  @TLE_Sport If you asked any Dallas Cowboys fan pre-season what their expectations were for the season it would have been; don't finish bottom in the NFC East, and maybe improve on the record of 8-8 which it has been for the past 3...

By Elsa Buchanan, International Politics reporter After initial news reports relayed pictures of the oil spill “catastrophe” in Bangladesh last week, the media have fallen somewhat silent. Disasters are so common in Bangladesh that they go unnoticed. Children covered in fuel oil up to their waist are trying to gather the sticky slick using...