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By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Protein World's 'Beach Body Ready' campaign has kicked up such a big fuss of late you would have thought body-shaming was a new concept, but the reality is that the girl in the yellow bikini has merely drawn people's attention to a more prominent body shaming platform, one that is far more pronounced and more destructive than any London Underground billboard ad. Social media compounds body image issues in ways no other platform has ever managed...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Next-generation betting exchange Smarkets has reached the one billion pound traded milestone. A strong response to the Cheltenham Festival and record-breaking interest in the Grand National built on momentum from 2014 pushing the company over the £1 billion mark. Cheltenham saw trading volume grow by 320 per cent year-on-year, whereas the response to the Grand National smashed the company’s one-day record for GBP volume traded, recording a revenue increase of 359 per cent. Revenue has snowballed in the...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Voting is open for the PPA Awards' annual Magazine Cover of the Year Award, one of many accolades contested by the magazine industry. The awards are one of the most important celebrations of world-class talent within magazine media in the UK. Now in its 35th year the prestigious event showcases excellence, rewards innovation, and provides the benchmark by which all consumer and business media brands are judged. Take a look at this year's entries for Magazine Cover...

By Pieter Cranenbroek As Owen Jones has noted, the Tory election campaign has proved far from a Machiavellian plan to win the election. The Conservatives’ personal attacks on Labour leader Ed Miliband have backfired and they are openly mocked for making silly blank cheque promises. Good news for Labour, except there is one problem: Labour is still more or less tied with the Tories. Many blame Miliband’s persona for this but Labour’s real problem is its inability to influence the...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  The NUS is set to reveal a national advertising campaign targeted at MPs who voted to increase student fees, with billboards across Sheffield, Manchester and London from Thursday 23rd April. Dubbed 'the 2010 pledge breakers' the advertisement attacks MPs who pledged to scrap tuition fees before voting for the increase. Prominent locations in London Victoria, Sheffield Central and Manchester Piccadilly have been selected with the billboards being erected overnight tonight to be up for the...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  Dividends have been, and always will be, an important component to the average investment strategy. The typical dividend strategy is rather basic (but effective) - purchase a well-reputed, long-term income stock, one that has a history of paying regular dividends. But, that's far from the only dividend strategy available. There is a dividend strategy called dividend stripping that takes the typical long-term strategy and flips it on its head. In this article, we will be...

By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle Tissue Attendant at Madame Tussauds Terrifying wax museum, Madame Tussauds, has reportedly had to hire a ‘tissue attendant’ to be near their One Direction display, following the departure of Zayn Malik from the band. All I’m saying about that is that last week when I wrote about his absence from the tour, I predicted this very thing. Who’d have thought it would be Zayn, though? All my money was on Harry. Harry the mini...

By Joe Thorpe In a report published at the end of March the FCO and Foreign affairs committee are assessing their actions after the events of the ‘Arab Spring’. The UK has looked at the Libyan state four years after western intervention and has seen what has been obvious for four years now. The state is failing, and in a way that is very dangerous for the UK. “It was not possible for us to visit Libya in 2015”. The Foreign...

By Steve Taggart Star of The Hobbit, Sherlock and The Office, Martin Freeman explains that he believes this election is a choice between two completely different sets of values.  He says Labour are focused on community, compassion and fairness, while the Tories have cut taxes for millionaires and only work for people at the top. Watch on link (below) and see if you believe in what he says Photocredit "Martin Freeman during filming of Sherlock cropped" by Martin_Freeman_filming_Sherlock.jpg: Fat Les (bellaphon) from London, UKderivative...