These are the best places in London to celebrate National Ceviche Day

A vast melting pot of cultures, London is filled with an eclectic mixture of restaurants experimenting with various national cuisines – some classic, others contemporary. Within the past five years, Peruvian food has become hugely popular across the city, with a continuous stream of exciting new restaurant openings. One particular Latin American dish to have found international acclaim – ceviche - typically features raw fish cured with citrus juice and spiced with chilli peppers or ají (a pungent chilli generally...

Okja: Film Review

By Linda Marric Fresh from igniting a lively debate about Netflix and their validity as fully fledged competitors at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Okja finally arrives to Netflix for the rest of us to devour. Directed by Bong Joon Ho (The Host, 2006) and co-written by British writer Jon Ronson (Them, So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, The Men That Stare At Goats), Okja offers a wild and wonderful story about animal welfare in a near future, and mixes beautifully...

A Man Called Ove: Film Review

Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP Based on the bestselling novel by Fredrick Blackman of the same name, A Man Called Ove follows Ove, a grumpy old man with a similar facial expression to that of John Sergeant, whose interests include Saab cars, making sure his neighbours are well behaved, and visiting the grave of his wife. When he looses his job of 43 years he is left with nothing better to do than kill himself. What plays out is an inconvenient...

School Orders Girls To Kneel On Chairs To Measure How Far Skirts Ride Up Their Legs

Parents have blasted a school as “draconian” for measuring the length of girls’ skirts by ordering them to KNEEL on chairs to see how far their hems ride up their thighs. The bizarre measuring technique was outlined by the secondary school in a letter sent to parents in a crackdown on uniform “compliance”. If the hemline of the skirt is more than 5cm (1.9ins) away from the chair then girls will be ordered home to change into a longer garment....

Awesome Majorca holidays to discover

Majorca, the largest and most popular destination in the Balearic Islands. Typical picture postcard Mediterranean coastline, this vacation destination is famous for natural beauty, charming seaside villages, mountainscapes and UNESCO World Heritage Sites, as well as a bustling and booming nightlife. An attractive destination for the rich and famous as well as perfect for families, couples and groups, it is not difficult to see why Majorca remains in the most popular holiday destination list. Majorca is made up of many...

Book Review: Harvesting by Lisa Harding (novel)

Let us speak then of victimless crimes, the pretense that somehow by expunging certain acts from the criminal justice system we are in fact advancing civilization, casting aside the repressions, the myths, the lies our churches told us for centuries upon centuries that those acts were evil when of course we the educated sophisticates know ever so much better that they are not evil merely ... pleasures that do no harm to no one else. If I choose to smoke...

5 cool NASA technologies that are currently in the pipeline

Ever since NASA's establishment in 1958, it has been more than a space research organization. From artificial limbs to freeze dried food, NASA has added a number of remarkable inventions to its kitty. In fact, some of the coolest technologies which we are using in our day to day lives are all courtesy NASA. Let us take for instance the spacecraft Juno that NASA launched to Jupiter, that too, entirely on solar power. Juno is the first spacecraft that has gone this far from...

London and US win in Global Cities Index as China loses ground

Los Angeles has been named as the top global city in the third publication of the Schroders Global Cities 30 index, narrowly beating London which took second place. US mega-cities dominated the latest index taking 18 of the top 30 places, including four of the top five spots. Los Angeles jumped from sixth place to first, whilst Boston saw one of the biggest leaps in the index going from 24th place to third place. Chicago jumped from 10th place to...

Corbyn tops Sheeran and Yorke as most talked about act at Glastonbury

Jeremy Corbyn completely overshadowed acts such as Ed Sheeran and Thom Yorke's Radiohead as the most talked about act at Glastonbury. The Labour leader took to the Pyramid stage on Saturday afternoon with Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis CBE to rapturous reception. Chants of ‘Oh, Jeremy Corbyn’ rang around the prestigious fields, echoing previous concerts the Labour leader has spoken at. And despite some of the World's biggest bands performing at the festival, it seems Corbyn has taken the spoils for the most talked about act. Surprising...

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