By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle Who knew a film about maths could be so entertaining? Inspired by his 2007 documentary Beautiful Young Minds director Morgan Matthews and writer James Graham’s X + Y is a very funny, sweet yet unsentimental drama centred on the surprisingly fascinating, (and hardcore), world of a Mathematics Olympiad. As “geek-cool” continues to spread X + Y is a bracingly realistic portrait of what it’s genuinely like to be on the outside. Asa Butterfiled is spot on...

By Dan Gleabals If you haven’t at some point in your life waved your hands about making Light Saber noises imagining you’re defeating Darth Vader then this isn’t the video for you. Star Wars VII is fast approaching, but not fast enough, so for the second time this year legendary VJ Eclectic Method (aka Jonny Wilson) revisits the first six movies, this time taking on the trusty Jedi’s Light Saber. The original lightsaber sound effect was developed by legendary sound...

By Ruby Zajac ‘¡Fuera Peña!’(Peña Out!) and ‘¡Fue el estado!’(It was the state) are two of the most common slogans in the revolutionary movement currently gripping Mexico. Five months ago, the president lost his already tenuous mandate to run the country, and most people I’ve spoken to don’t think there’s even any point in voting in the upcoming local elections - all the parties are in bed together, they tell me. The state’s involvement in the Ayotzinapa forced disappearances is...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter  @rgdewinter  @TLE_Sport Test cricket is all that really matters.  ODIs are just a Disneyfied version of the real thing, designed for people who want things now, people who measure excitement in terms of boundaries and cartwheeling stumps, people who don’t appreciate the beauty of a game that can last for five days without anyone winning. That, at least, is what I’ve been telling myself over the last few weeks as England’s ODI team...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport A club record points tally in the Premier League; European qualification; victories against Chelsea and Arsenal and an unprecedented home and away double over Manchester United.  2013/14 was something of an annus mirabilis for Everton FC.  So why have they not reproduced that form in the current campaign? On paper nothing much has changed.  The squad is largely the same from last season.  Romelu Lukaku and Gareth Barry...

By Lamia Walker, Founder of HouseSitMatch.com Like many a good ideas, the Sharing Economy has taken a strong hold pretty rapidly, manifesting itself in multi-faceted forms facilitating many aspects of our lives. In London we all know Boris Bikes and car sharing companies like Citycar, and many of us have taken part in some collaborative trading through sites like eBay and Amazon, in fact they are so much part of our culture that they have been absorbed into our language – we...

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Will Magee  @W_F_Magee  @TLE_Sport The London Economic continues its focus on non-league football with a visit to Dulwich Hamlet where Will Magee found the club ethos to be diametrically opposite to that of the Premier League. Over the last month, the Premier League’s reputation has surely reached a new low.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s been deteriorating for much longer than that; soaring prices, despotic owners, leveraged buyouts, text message scandals and dire behaviour on...

Sport News 24/7 By Simon White  @SimonWhite14  @TLE_Sport Brought to light by a series of astonishingly bad decisions in recent weeks, it is hard to refute the fact that the standard of refereeing in the Premier League is dropping.  From sending off the wrong player to Manuel Figueroa not receiving a card for leaving an utterly horrific gash in Stephen Ireland’s leg, it is about time the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) realised things need to change.  Whether it...

By Declan Roberts (@Declanmr) There has been much talk lately of guitar music’s fall from grace, the genre supposedly fading in popularity as its one cutting edge grows dull. I however look at it in a completely different light. 2015 has an impressive roster of records coming out that look set to keep guitar music fresh; Drenge, The Vaccines, The Maccabees and Palma Violets to name but a few. But you don’t need to look ahead to see the saviours...