Campaigners Don’t Trust The National Trust on Hunting
There’s an old adage that trust has to be earned. Ironically for the National Trust that’s something that seems to be in short supply among anti-hunt campaigners. After a highly controversial vote at last year’s AGM, which may face a legal challenge over what many regard as an inappropriate use of proxy votes, the Trust decided to continue to permit hunting on its land. This was in the face of highly vocal opposition from ordinary members, some of whom threatened...
The Brexit assessments the Government didn’t want released have been published – now everyone can see what they were hiding
@BenGelblum The House of Commons Exiting the European Union Committee has published the Whitehall Brexit impact analyses that the Government did not want you to see. Brexit Minister David Davis fought tooth and nail to keep the assessments of the possible impacts of Brexit on the economy confidential, insisting they might jeopardise negotiations with the EU if revealed. Yet it in the end there is only one section of the impact reports which has been left out of the 29...
Quit your job and travel the world like… Lois Pryce
To celebrate International Women's Day, TLE caught up with inspirational writer and adventurer Lois Pryce, who quit her job at the BBC in 2003 to ride her motorbike from Alaska to the tip of South America. Tell us a little bit about you? Lois Pryce - author, travel writer, banjo picker. Where was the first place you visited outside of your native country? Like so many British kids in the 80s, my first taste of the great unknown was a...
Worst financial mistakes startups can make
Nowadays, we have more freedom to pursue our own ideas and passions and make money out of them. More and more people start their own businesses, and we often observe their evolution by asking ourselves why some of them became successful in spite of difficulties, and others not? Or maybe we are the ones who dream about starting a business and would like to assure ourselves that we do the right moves and avoid the most common and dangerous mistakes...
Film Review: Sweet Country
Warwick Thornton’s feature debut, Samson and Delilah, a sensitive, sad tale of two Aboriginal lovers living in Alice Springs, took home the Camera d’Or at Cannes and introduced an emerging talent to the stable of promising Australian directors. The 47-year-old cinematic jack of all trades, often serving as both Director and cinematographer on his films, working from a script by Steven McGregor and David Tranter, delivers in Sweet Country a beautifully poetic, brutally raw Australian Western that explores the intersection, connection and overlap of White and...
Drive it like Beckham! Ex Manchester United superstar David Beckham is selling one of a kind Range Rover
A one-off Range Rover Sport built for David Beckham is set to sell for more than £30,000 next month. Beckham spent around £100,000 upgrading the SUV through Kahn Conversions in 2007. Staff at Kahn installed a unique interior which includes hand-stitched quilted leather seats, a bespoke sound system and twin rear screens for Brooklyn and Romeo to play on their PlayStations. A one-off Range Rover Sport built for David Beckham is set to sell for £32,000 next month. It also...
Muslim Children and Foster Care
Religion, faith and culture are always hotly debated topics, no more so than when it comes to fostering Muslim children. But there is a problem - the number of Muslim children in need of foster care in England outnumbers the number of Muslim foster carers. Like all children, they have a right to be cared for in a foster home that promotes their culture and religion safely and appropriately. But when there is such an obvious gap between what is...
Police release defiant mugshots of the Britain First leaders early because of impact they have had on the community
Police have released defiant mugshots of the Britain First leaders - because of the impact the vile pair had on the community. Paul Golding and deputy Jayda Fransen launched a 'campaign of abuse' against Muslims during a court case where a teen had been raped. The pair, from Penge, south east London, were jailed at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for religiously-aggravated harassment. Fransen, 32, was sentenced to nine months in prison and Golding, 36, was jailed for four-and-a-half months....
Cambridge look to gain competitive edge over Oxford with state-of-the-art rowing tank
A huge indoor rowing tank has been built at a Cambridge University college that could give rowers the winning edge. Known simply as the Cambridge Rowing Tank, the massive contraption consists of two 50ft pools for eight rowers’ oars, each containing 10 tonnes of water - or roughly 50 average baths. Sitting in Downing College’s boat club on the banks of the River Cam in Cambridge, it took six months to construct at a total project cost of nearly £700,000....