Film Review: A Gentle Creature

Sergey Loznitsa’s latest offering, A Gentle Creature, is an exercise in suffering. A gruelling odyssey that delves the depths of the human spirit, that by the film’s end leaves you coming up gasping for air. Derived from the title of a Dostoevsky short story, Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature, which competed at last year’s Cannes Film Festival for the much coveted Palme d’Or award, is imbued with the deep pain and suffering of the Russian people. Whilst the narrative of the...

American Power and Gas CEO Tom Cummins Wants to Keep America’s Lights on with Renewable Energy

According to the International Energy Agency’s renewables 2017 report, three countries are going to account for two-thirds of global renewable energy expansion by 2022. Those countries are China, India, and the United States. While credit must be given to the former two for a boom in solar-panel deployments over the past year, the US can also take a bow for not only sharpened cost reductions, but also improving policies that support the use of renewable energy. The result of these...

Restaurant Review: Abd el Wahab, London

West London has no shortage of Lebanese restaurants, but few are quite like Abd el Wahab. First opened in Beirut at the end of the 1990s, the Abd el Wahab restaurant group (named after the address of its original location - ‘Abd el Wahab El Inglizi’) now oversees popular restaurants across the Middle East, including Bahrain, Qatar, Cairo, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The first restaurant outside the Arab region has recently opened, taking over a premises on Pont Street in...

London’s first gluten, dairy & sugar free Italian restaurant opens next month

Best known for Macellaio RC – the Italian butchery with tables – Roberto Costa has teamed up with chef Simona Ranieri to bring a brand new restaurant concept to London. Taking over a bright, airy space in Fulham, Ardiciocca (meaning artichoke in Genoese-Italian) will launch on Friday 4th May, inspired by the world famous Mediterranean diet: marking London’s first gluten, dairy and sugar free restaurant opening. While Macellaio RC has a prominent focus on Italian Fassona beef, there will be...

Will pharmaceutical consulting in Britain be blocked by Brexit?

Brexit has left no part of the British economy untouched, and with a year to go before the tumultuous departure from the European Union, those in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors are among those who are worried. And if a so-called hard Brexit is going to strike anyone, it may well be these two critical industries that are so important for the health of the economy and the nation. For starters, the Brexodus is already well under way and the...

Watch: Waitress makes meals for the homeless & has dished up 75,000 in six years

A kindhearted waitress whips up fresh meals for the homeless in her community and says she has dished out 75,000 DINNERS from her own kitchen. Granny Gloria Lewis, 54, spends her weekends making 225 fresh dinners and 180 breakfasts from her two-stove, four-fridge kitchen after years of living on the brink of homelessness in her low-income job. Gloria, who moved to the US from Barbados in 1987, spends $700 on groceries every weekend to make dozens of home-cooked meals for...

Man filmed firing racial abuse at black woman on a train

A man who launched a foul-mouthed rant at a black woman on a train after she asked him to stop swearing is being hunted by police. The white passenger hurled verbal abuse at the unidentified woman who was travelling with her children when she politely asked him to watch his language. The dark-haired man, who appears to be in his 20s, who also claimed he was carrying a knife during the incident last week. In a video taken by another...

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