Tips on choosing apps for summer holidays
By Lucy Gill, Director: Apps & Technology Fundamentally Children Many of us are dreading long journeys with our children this summer, struggling to work out what will fit in the suitcase to entertain them when we get to our destination or simply wondering how to fill all those hours at home on a rainy day! Technology is certainly not the only solution to keep children entertained, far from it, but there is no doubt it can help! For many of...
Desiree Akhavan is not Lena Dunham
By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle Desiree Akhavan is not Lena Dunham. Yes, both are females, both hail from New York and both are filmmakers but one does not subsume the other. Why are “minorities” so often reduced in this way? Minorities in double quotes because women are over half the population after all! Yet still in the context of filmmaking females are still unfortunately counted as a minority. It’s true that comparisons are always made within the arts and fair enough,...
The Benefits of Hiring an Apprentice
By Fay Gibbin, Training Manager, Busy Bees Training Today, completing an Apprenticeship is a perfectly acceptable route to a stimulating and rewarding career or embarking upon a degree course, yet it is often wrongly assumed that those forgoing the traditional route of academic learning to pursue vocational training lack the aspirations or academic ability to achieve. Over 130,000 businesses across the UK offer Apprenticeship programmes because they recognise that they produce enthusiastic, dedicated individuals, who hold a company’s values and...
Restaurant Review – Bread Street Kitchen
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Having visited Mr Ramsay’s relatively new Heddon Street Kitchen, as well as Jamie Oliver’s Barbecoa (the competition that’s situated just next door) to Bread Street Kitchen, in recent months, I find myself very excited to finally sample what’s on offer at BSK, having enjoyed my trip to the restaurant’s little sister situated in Central London. Arriving at Gordon’s corner of One New Change (the shopping centre that’s located mere metres from St. Paul’s Cathedral)...
The Social Side of Customer Experience
By Ulrik Bo Larsen, CEO and Founder of Falcon Social What are your goals when you create content for social media? Engaging your audience, entertaining them, driving clicks, signups, and sales? How do you decide what will get people to pay attention (which is becoming harder to do, considering the volume of content being produced) and help you reach these goals? The immense amount of data generated by social channels can help guide you in content creation. Data on engagement...
Death of a Gentleman
By Richard Bannan If you're reading this you're a sports fan. If you're a sports fan, you're a fan of Test Match Cricket. To claim otherwise is akin to being to a lover of sketch comedy with a blind spot for Monty Python. And if you love Test Match Cricket you must see Death of a Gentleman. This new documentary, from journalists Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber began life in 2011 as a love letter to Test Match Cricket and an...
In Search of the Ultimate Sandwich
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Dating as far back as the 1700s with the namesake penned in homage to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, who allegedly came up with the concept of eating his meals pressed between two slices of bread: the classic Sandwich is now one of the most popular universal lunchtime dishes. Sure, the concept has evolved a little over the years, but the general precipice has remained the same. For many, the idea of a...
Tesco To Cut Sugary Drinks Such As Ribena From Their Shelves
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food The UK’s biggest Supermarket chain, Tesco has caused outrage across Internet social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, following their decision to remove sugary drinks such as Ribena from their shelves. A number of health campaigners, on the other hand, have welcomed the Tesco’s decision to crack down on sugary drinks. The decision was made in a bid to combat childhood obesity, and will be put in to place as of September 7th,...
How To Drink In Style Through The Summer
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food A brand that’s synonymous with Summer style, Hackett has teamed up with Beefeater 24 Gin to provide a limited-edition Cocktail Hamper that’s perfect for Picnic Season. Outdoor drinking is generally frowned upon, yet this classy contraption is too good to resist. Featuring four highball glasses, a Hackett Picnic rug, four stirrers and four stylish napkins, not forgetting a container for ice and lemon slices which also doubles up as a portable Cocktail shaker with...