Until recently, I felt like the only person in London with an Instagram account, still yet to visit The Ned. Quite honestly, I could have probably lived without a trip to Soho House’s new landed cruise ship, if not for the torrent of social media photographs from a tribe of pretty people with unexciting jobs and unlimited access to the rooftop infinity pool. Suddenly I'd become affronted with serious fear of missing out, so decided to visit for dinner with a...

By Professor Emeritus Mary Mellor, from University of Northumbria That's right there are two magic money trees. Both the state and the banks can create money out of thin air. States do this by having budgets. Despite the myths that have been told time and time again, states are NOT households – they run armies and banks and schools and police forces and so on. They allocate expenditure in expectation of getting an equivalent amount of money back through taxation. There...

A full year has passed since the June 23 Brexit referendum. Britons voted by a margin of 52% to 48% to break from the European Union. The Brexiteers may not have known it at the time, but the long-term consequences of a Brexit have far-reaching implications for UK banks. For starters, banks in Britain are currently operating with full access to European markets. Those passporting rights will be affected in the absence of a negotiated settlement post-Brexit. On Monday, 20...

Who doesn’t like to have a cheese laden pizza with those delicious toppings over it? Well, we all do, right? And why not when we’ve a place called Pizza Hut which offers some of the delicious and exotic ones all the time! Moreover, though almost each and every variety of pizza taste nothing but just mouthwatering still all these are not made equally. Some of the pizzas are nutritional and some are absolutely nutritional nightmares! That’s why if you know...

On July 14th 2017, almost 10 years after it was originally released, Reuben will reissue their 3rd and final album 'In Nothing We Trust' through Big Scary Monsters (BSM) as a very limited vinyl run, as well as digitally across streaming and purchase platforms (for the very first time). Often cited by fans of the band as a true lost classic, and originally released on the bands own Hideous Records label, it is currently unavailable on vinyl or digitally anywhere, hence this...

Kate Tempest didn't hold back as she launched in Theresa May in an angry and emotional attack on the Tory leader. The crowd and many on social media were deeply touched by her words and her unrelenting delivery. She said: "School kids on the hunt for lunch, cut the apron strings at least it keeps the bastards leaning,” she said. “Murdoch headlines leeches for the letting of our blood lost, blame it on the migrants suffocated in containers, blame it...

The NHS has been on its knees for a number of years. Austerity and creeping privatisation have slowly eroded away our once great national health service. Now polling by the BMA (British Medical Association) has indicated that public dissatisfaction with the public health service has double in two years. Over 1,000 adults were questioned and 43 per cent of them were unhappy with the NHS compared to just 21 per cent as recently as 2015 This is the first time...

A vast melting pot of cultures, London is filled with an eclectic mixture of restaurants experimenting with various national cuisines – some classic, others contemporary. Within the past five years, Peruvian food has become hugely popular across the city, with a continuous stream of exciting new restaurant openings. One particular Latin American dish to have found international acclaim – ceviche - typically features raw fish cured with citrus juice and spiced with chilli peppers or ají (a pungent chilli generally...

By Linda Marric Fresh from igniting a lively debate about Netflix and their validity as fully fledged competitors at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Okja finally arrives to Netflix for the rest of us to devour. Directed by Bong Joon Ho (The Host, 2006) and co-written by British writer Jon Ronson (Them, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, The Men That Stare At Goats), Okja offers a wild and wonderful story about animal welfare in a near future, and mixes beautifully...