In the next 15 years your enquiries to civil servants could be answered by robots. Anyone who spends hours on automated calls, might be a bit dubious about this plan. However, the Reform thinktank believes that computers and robots will improve the customer service experience. They believe that a quarter of a million public sector jobs will be slashed due to this technological advance. Not great news for those in the public sector, who have hardly had a pay rise in...

This Saturday I did something I haven't done since the day we voted to leave the European Union: I defended Brexit voters. My friend had made the argument that of all the leave voters he had spoken to about their decision to leave the EU not one had been able to offer up a good argument or account for the consequences of their decision. I had experienced the same thing, but I wasn't prepared to tarnish the other 17.4 million voters with...

It’s Super Bowl XLIX and Marshawn 'Beast Mode' Lynch has driven the ball to the half yard line for the Seattle Seahawks to set up second and goal with 27 seconds left on the clock in the fourth quarter. With the score tensely poised at 28 points to 24 a touchdown would have surely won it for the NFC champions, but Russell Wilson's pass was intercepted by undrafted free agent Malcolm Butler and the Patriots held on to win Super...

Sport News 24/7 By Dan Betts from The Hot Stepanvos Tottenham starlet Dele Alli and Chelsea are well placed to clean up at the 2017 London Football Awards. After his spectacular breakthrough last season, the 20 year old has continued to fire his team into Premier League contention, bagging 11 goals in just 21 games. Alli’s marvellous form has seen him not only nominated in the Young Player of the Year award, which he won last year, but also for...

Travel company Expedia have partnered with eight of the UK’s most promising young photographers to capture a ‘better perspective’ of London’s most commonly photographed landmarks. The project aims to offer an alternative view of the sites most commonly filling our Instagram feeds, Snapchat stories and Twitter galleries. To see more from the project, click here. Lamarr Golding – Tower Bridge I’m an urban explorer and free-runner, so I see London as a playground. Most people just see skyscrapers and buildings,...

Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP It must be hard enough to write, direct, and star in a film at the best of times, so I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for Alice Lowe to do all these things while heavily pregnant. Prevenge has a simple but interesting premise. Ruth, a pregnant women, is convinced her unborn child is not only speaking to her, but requesting her to commit a string of murders. In between these episodes there...

It’s hard to understand what it must be like to have a high pitched screech ringing in your ears, every minute of every day. But that is exactly what life is like for 22-year old Clara Lilley, a fundraising campaign manager from London, who has tinnitus, the often debilitating hearing condition. Here, as part of Tinnitus Awareness Week (6-12 February), Clara explains how she has finally learnt to live with her diagnosis. “At about 14-years old I started going to...

By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent - the estate agent comparison website Figures released last week (30 January 2017) from Centre for Cities highlights the shape of the UK's 63 biggest cities in the run-up to the triggering of Article 51. The 2017 data reveals a clear divide between the North and South, with goods being exported mainly from the North and services from the South. Centre for Cities emphasise the relevance of...

20th Century Women sees the return of Beginners (2010) director Mike Mills in one of the most ambitiously stylish and quirky pieces of filmmaking of recent years. Being no stranger to technical wizardry from his years in the music video industry, Mills offers his audience an exhilarating mishmash of authentic 1970s nostalgia mixed with dream-like sequences and real-life footage, with a killer soundtrack to boot. Set in California during the summer of 1979, 20th Century Women charters some era-defining moments...