Launched this week, Waterloo Food Month runs through July. A month long programme of food and drink-based events around Waterloo, featured events will include immersive workshops, master classes, talks from experts and various tastings. Culminating with the event, Bridget Virden from the community-focussed Meanwhile Club in Waterloo held a ‘Make, Do & Mend’ workshop, focusing on herbs as a key ingredient in summer cocktails. Sharing a wealth of knowledge with participants on creating a simple kitchen herb garden, the drinks...

What a lovely heap of little gems, June. The return of Lorde this month may have produced enough glare to blanch the hype around these smaller releases, so it's lucky we're here to gather them all together! Our cover image stars A Giant Dog return after last year's outstanding Pile with more irresistible gyrating on upcoming release Toy, and Vince Staples got Kendrick in for an incendiary verse on Big Fish Theory highlight 'Yeah Right'. Katie Crutchfield is back doing her Waxahatchee thing and...

Undercover footage has revealed over-crowded pigs cannibalising the rotting carcasses of other hogs in a shocking expose of factory farming. Shocking footage of the swine munching on the dead flesh of other pigs was shot by animal rights' activists at a pork farm. The remains of piglets, riddled with maggots and slung in a skip to decompose, were caught on camera along with two skulls found in pig pens. Sick animals were left with the remains of dead pigs, contrary...

“If we give them Ostrava , then we give them Germany.” Adolf Hitler once said during WW2. When I arrive in Ostrava, I can’t quite comprehend why he held the city in such high regard. It looks, and feels, like an industrial estate in Milton Keynes in mid-November. It isn't until I get to my hotel room, put down my heavy rucksack and draw back the curtains that I realise I was wrong to make such a hasty judgement. It’s...

People travel all over the world for different reasons. Some go out on business trips and some want to see the different designs they see on sites such as E Architect in person. There is something that never changes about travelling however. Travelling implies a lot of research regarding the different prices and pricing philosophies that you will encounter in the foreign country that you plan on travelling to. There’s no point in making things even harder by getting caught...

Of all the probing questions that might have been proffered up by Amol Rajan in the first episode of BBC Radio 4's Media Show since the General Election an examination into whether Fleet Street has lost its influence on British politics probably wasn't one of them. But as it was the episode, which featured The London Economic, explored whether the battle ground was not the front pages of the national press but social media, where a new breed of publisher outgunned the likes...

The country may have been granted political autonomy – but after the assassination of its nationalist leader, it is yet to be awarded the economic assistance needed to build a truly independent nation. By Daniel Khalili-Tari It was June 30th 1960, a former Congolese postal clerk who had only five months earlier been released from prison after engaging in anti-colonial demonstrations, took to the podium. Patrice Lumumba and his revolutionary retinue stood proud in opposition to King Baudouin of Belgium. Only...

Currently experiencing a monumental surge in popularity, research company EuroMonitor suggests that gin will overtake whisky as the nation’s favourite spirit by 2020. The same report reveals sales of gin and Scotch whisky almost broke even last year, but it’s hardly surprising, considering so many whisky distilleries have begun to experiment with gin. Taking far less time to produce, ultimately leading to faster turnaround and higher profit margins, most of the gins enjoyed in the UK (more than 70 per-cent)...

By Linda Marric Now in its third instalment the Despicable Me franchise is well on the way to cementing its reputation as one of the most popular animation series beyond the world of Pixar and Disney. Having regaled children and their parents with two highly enjoyable features, the Minions, Gru and the kids are back with Despicable Me 3, or more precisely 3D. The production is as heavy on silly gags and is as action packed as the rest, but...