By Sammy Russell The EU released its draft exit treaty earlier this week, which formally spelled out the terms of Brexit and what it may mean in practice. It shows just how tricky preserving peace in Northern Ireland will be if the UK wants to stick to the red lines it has given itself. Theresa May has been pushed into swearing by various ‘red lines’ by the pressures of internal Conservative party politics. These are things the UK will simply not...

Venue: Heaven, London 15.2.18 Photos: Graham Berry ( Black Tea Photography) Amenra and Boris on a co-headline tour? That's a lot of heavy squeezed onto a single stage.The pair of bands swung through London last week, bringing one of the darkest displays Heaven has (likely) ever bore witness to. TLE photographer Graham Berry and writer Jay Hampshire got themselves along to this supreme evening of post-metal to sacrifice their stereocillia to some seriously dense slabs of heavy music. Read Jay's...

Dozens of women have been on hunger strike since Monday at the notorious Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. Some have been on hunger strike since last week. Last week we reported that over 100 women detained by the Home Office with no time limit on administrative grounds has gone on hunger strike over “inhumane” conditions at the facility on Wednesday. The hunger strikers were urging the Home Office to end “offensive” practices which they said leave people “breaking down psychologically.”...

The news desk at the Daily Express has imploded after three days of genuinely cold weather on UK shores. Editors and journalists were found collapsed in a heap this morning just after temperatures dipped below freezing again. Multiple packs of Kleenex tissues and a Collins thesaurus was found next to the bodies with deranged scribbling around the words “icy” and “cold”. The front page of the latest edition simply read “ice blast mega freezing super blizzarding wintery fuck-storm", with an...

A petition calling for an end to the practice of rewarding GPs with cash incentives to cut the number of patients they refer to hospital has reached 140,000 signatures. With the NHS cash-strapped and struggling to provide beds this winter, bosses are looking for any opportunity to save money. That means that in some cases GPs have been offered cash rewards to cut the number of patients they refer to hospital - including people who might have cancer. Campaigners say this practice...

We will continue to need gas over the short to medium term - the question is where that gas comes from and fundamentally where we can store it in sufficient quantity to guarantee supply and stable prices says GMB GMB, the gas and energy workers union, has today written to the Minister for Energy and Clean Growth Claire Perry calling for urgent meeting with trade unions and industry association to address the ‘Beast from the East’ gas crisis. As Britain...

This bold, provocative and thought-provoking new novel from acclaimed Australian writer and religious cult survivor Rhys Hagan is an impressive piece of historical fiction, set in Judea during the time of Jesus Christ. Hagan’s debut novel - the thriller Hunting Taylor Brown - met with rave reviews on its release in 2016. And while it is very different in theme and content, his excellent second work is no less gripping. Drawing on his own experiences with a religious cult, Hagan...

What is Van Life? Or rather, what is #VanLife? Some of the more ardent Instagram users will probably already know all about #VanLife. But for the not-so-social-media-aware, Van Life is a community of people - often slim, attractive, bohemian-looking, millennials - who document their nomadic journeys around the world, in converted vans, on Instagram. Search #VanLife on the photo-sharing media platform and you'll find over 2.6 million posts - mainly of VW campers parked in front of eye-wateringly-beautiful sunsets, pristine mountains...

Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is a famous and respected dancer for the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Nate Nash (Joel Edgerton) is a CIA agent in Russia who botches a meeting with a mole. After a horrific leg break, Dominika must retire, and is persuaded by her nefarious uncle in the SVR, Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts), to become a 'sparrow'; a highly trained sexual manipulator who can worm their way into the lonely lives of men like Nate. Lawrence really poured everything she...