Friends Confirm Reunion
The cast of Friends have confirmed they will reunite for a two-hour special to be aired in the US on Sunday 21 February. The entire crew - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry - are reported to be signed up to the one-off episode, which is being produced in honour of James Burrows, who directed 15 episodes of the New York-based comedy. Given the high-profile status of the cast it may prove challenging to get everyone...
Five challenges for you on STI Awareness Day
By Jess Bolton SH:24's graduate business associate. There’s been an huge amount of chatter recently about whether or not dating apps are leading to an increase in STIs. Back in November we put the question to our twitter followers and 53% of them said no - not exactly conclusive... https://twitter.com/sh24_nhs/status/661127893876137984 As the number of casual sexual encounters goes up the rate of transmission inevitably goes up with it but there is nothing about these apps themselves that promotes unsafe sex....
Beer Of The Week – Crate I.P.A
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 5.8% ABV Brewed: Hackney Wick, London Set up in 2012, Crate Brewery operates from an old print factory in the heart of London’s vibrant Hackney Wick. Priding themselves on using only the finest British Malts and internationally sourced hops, Crate’s core range consists of ten beers, and has been the subject of much acclaim, having garnered support from a number of restaurant groups and hotels, including celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver, Gordon...
Parliamentary Sketch 13th Jan – Junior Doctors’ Strike but Corbyn Misses the Rebound
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was Corbyn’s comeback from long-term injury, the awkward left-winger had an open goal over the junior doctors’ strike, he flicked the ball into the air, with an intricate overhead kick he scored, and ran into the cheering crowd. Corbyn said, “Would you agree that the only people in the UK who you couldn’t crush for striking is the predominately middle class, highly educated and crucially able to save your life, junior doctors, and the...
An Idiot’s Adventures In Gameland – Steve McNeil
28: Under-Rated Happy New Year, dear reader! Did you have a nice Christmas? Oh good/Oh dear (delete as appropriate). You’re probably all wondering what on earth to do with your January, games-wise, aren’t you? I mean, it’s a traditionally sparse time of year, what with developers choosing not to release any big titles, on the basis we all just blew our money on Baileys and dry meat. Still, you probably lost a few quid down the sofa when you passed...
London property prices leap into 2016
By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent There was much talk over the imbalance of supply and demand in 2015. But has much changed as we enter 2016? According to search engine Home, supply of homes on the market has fallen to a new record low despite a small rise. With only 386,000 properties on the market in England and Wales, it's 47 per cent fewer than in 2008. A lack of properties on...
TLE Sports Podcast
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @rgdewinter @davidjdewinter The London Economic Sports Editor David de Winter, is joined by Richard de Winter as they discuss the England cricket team's fortunes in South Africa, the movers and shakers in the transfer window, the upcoming Australian Open, Eddie Jones' first England squad, and the issue of Drugs in Sport
Mogwai Announce Soundtrack Album – Atomic – 1st April Release
Mogwai have announced the release of their new album, titled Atomic, slated for a 1st April release. The album is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousin’s acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer. The band have premiered U-235, a new track lifted from the album. Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times - protest marches,...
The Big Short: Opening Schrödinger’s Box
Erwin Schrödinger was a Nobel Prize-winning Austrian physicist who, amongst other esteemed achievements, was most noted for his sympathies to the scientific layman. In an attempt to demystify the secrets of quantum physics, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and parallel universes he developed a theory named Schrödinger's cat, in which a cat in a closed box with a stick of dynamite (or radioactive source/ poison/ too much time - you pick) is considered (according to quantum mechanics) to be simultaneously both dead...