Charlie Hebdo attacks: Your personalised T-shirt for €20
By Elsa Buchanan, Less than 48 hours after the violent attacks on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left 12 dead, a macabre business around "Je Suis Charlie" has been emerging on the internet. Phone cases and personalised T-shirts vendors are using the tragedy to make money. You can now buy your personalised "Je Suis Charlie" T-shirt for €20, or perhaps you fancy a "Je Suis Charlie" Iphone cover instead? Less than 48 hours after the violent attack on France's satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo left...
Russia bans transsexual and transgender people from driving
By Elsa Buchanan, Russia says drivers must not have 'sex disorders', and has listed transsexual and transgender people as those who will no longer qualify for driving licences. Russia has banned transsexuals and people with "disorders" involving sexual preference and gender identity, including exhibitionists and fetishists, from obtaining driver's licenses. The new law, aimed at "promoting public health" by reducing traffic deaths, extends Russia's legal campaign against homosexuality. The decree, signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, empowers officials to ban...
Ched Evans 0 – British Legal System 0 (or maybe less than)
By Will Herrmann Writing about Ched Evans, his past misdemeanours and his future employment in a week that’s seen the tragic unfoldings in Paris seems wrong. However, the huge amount of bile that I keep being bombarded with on both mainstream and social media has driven me to try and make the most obvious point about the case. Ched Evans has been convicted as a rapist. As a fully signed up member of the democracy that we live in and,...
Medieval Ireland an hour from London
By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic You don't have to travel the world to feel worlds apart. There's something quite magical about packing an overnight bag out of London and ending up somewhere so distant from the densely packed city scape of the capital that it almost feels as though you've been travelling for days. As a tireless worker, I have always found it difficult to turn off. The city is full of short-term solutions that momentarily take...
The Lions Debacle
Sport News 24/7 By Dan McLaughlin @McGloogly @gridirongents @TLE_Sport I wasn't going to do this. I really wasn't. But I went and opened my big mouth on the Gridiron Gentlemen Podcast about what I believe happened. Well I say "what I believe happened", but in actual fact I think made a bad job of putting my point across, so here I am trying to put my point across. It’s actually a good chance to look at one of the biggest...
Americans Focussing on Inner Health in 2015
By Kuae Mattox A new survey has revealed Americans are taking a new approach to New Year's resolutions and focusing on 'inner health' instead. Resolutions about diet and losing weight are still in good shape in the US, but this year almost half of people in the US said the older they become the less they are concerned they are with how they look. Rather, they have become more focussed with their strength inside. More than 60 per cent want to be...
US Men Have Become Fashion Victims
By Kuae Mattox Millions of American men have become fashion victims at the hands of their style-conscious wives or girlfriends, according to a new survey. Two-thirds of US women say their partners' choice of clothing "just isn't right" - and nearly half secretly purge their wardrobes of some of the grosser garb. A survey of 1,000 Americans across the country by Bombfell, the men’s online personal styling service, revealed that a staggering 98 per cent of women felt it was OK to...
Fourth Time Lucky for Watford?
Sport News 24/7 By Alex Dinsdale @dinsadelic @TLE_Sport The managerial instability around Vicarage Road hit the headlines some months ago, with the ridiculous statistic of four head coaches in thirty-seven days making a mockery of Watford’s promising start to the season. Having lost only twice, Watford were on course for the promotion they had only just missed out on in Gianfranco Zola’s first season. The appointment of ex-Barcelona player and Brighton boss, Oscar Garcia, was met with great optimism but...
The Economic Outlook for 2015
The annual economic outlook for 2015 has been released by Invesco, revealing that faster growth of the quantity of money is desperately needed to avoid deflation. Despite a more positive economic outlook in 2014 we’re still hearing warning signs about the state of the global economy from all directions. Figures from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, have shown that the Eurozone experienced deflation of 0.2 per cent in December compared to the same month last year and...