Could you pass the UK citizenship test?
British citizenship has been a hot topic this year thanks to the result of Brexit, with many EU nationals looking to find out how they can secure their UK citizenship. Any persons wishing to apply for UK citizenship has to pass a test that combines both topics surrounding British history and British values. The test is designed to place emphasis on the diversity of British history, and the achievements accomplished. Take the test and see if you can score the...
Pictures: Amazon Completes The World’s First Drone Delivery in Cambridgeshire
Retail giant Amazon has successfully completed the world's first delivery by drone. The driverless plane delivered the order in less than thirty minutes in Cambridgeshire. The billionaire founder of Amazon announced on Twitter that: "First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books." Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon in 1994, claimed that it took just 13 minutes from click to direct delivery. The new service is known as Amazon Prime Air and promises to get packages to customers in 30 minutes...
Labour’s Christmas video is cringe-worthy, but the underlying message rings true
Just when you thought you had seen the pits of this year's Christmas ad spree Labour release a re-hashed version of Do They Know Its Christmas and take the spoils at the final hurdle. Bravo them. Just when I thought I'd had my fill of abject humiliation for this year our shadow cabinet decide to turn up the cringe one more time. And what a howler it is. To the tune of the Band Aid classic, it goes: Christmas is hard..... On...
Beer of the Week – BrewDog ‘Santa Paws’
Strength: 4.5% ABV Brewed: Ellon, Scotland Tired of a market dominated by industrially brewed lagers and ales, the team behind BrewDog set up the world’s first crowd-funded brewery in 2007. Now one of the UK’s most prominent breweries, operating from a site in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, a community of over 35000 investors own shares in the business, with shares still available. And what’s more, the brewery that’s made for the people, by the people is still constantly striving to encourage...
PMQs 14th Dec – “Confusion never stops…Closing wards and ticking clocks”
It was the longest PMQs, possibly ever, at 46 minutes, and time, well time running out, was the theme that dominated the session. In the UK we are living longer than ever, and Jeremy Corbyn was wondering why the Tories had axed £4.6bn social care funding, to ensure our final years are as miserable as Alf Garnett seeing out the rest of his days in The Gambia. Local Authorities can now raise additional council taxes to fund elderly social care,...
Theatre Review: Once in a Lifetime, The Young Vic
Once in a Lifetime is a show about the tenuous and complicated relationship between creativity and destruction. Re-adapted here by Chris Hart, son of one half of the original writing duo Moss Hart and George S Kaufman, the show may well be set in 1930s Hollywood just as the talkies are about to change cinema forever, but it might also be poking fun at an art form that is a little closer to home. Director Richard Jones always takes risks...
TLE Sports Podcast 14.12.16
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - TLE Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @rgdewinter @davidjdewinter The TLE Sports Podcast returns with Sports Editor David de Winter and Richard de Winter. In this episode they discuss England's woes in India, Chelsea's current exceptional form, Manchester City's current blip, England Rugby's stellar 2016, and the ongoing Russian doping scandal.
London’s Best Restaurant Openings of 2016
Let’s face it, 2016 has been less than brilliant. Something to be thankful for, however, is the overwhelming number of remarkable restaurants to have opened in London over the past twelve months. We’ve compiled a selection of some of our favourites. Eneko at One Aldwych The first London restaurant from three Michelin-starred Eneko Atxa, Eneko at One Aldwych is an intentionally different entity to Azurmendi in Bilbao. Of course, the chef’s culinary expertise is delivered here, yet the ambience is...
These are the monks cashing in on Scotland’s Buckfast addiction
Buckfast gets you fucked fast, as the saying goes. Well, it can also get you minted fast if you're a monk at Buckfast Abbey in Buckfastleigh, Devon. The Charity Commission tpday revealed Buckfast Abbey Trust's income for 2014/15 was £8.8m - mostly coming from its wine. Monks at the abbey have been making Buckfast wine - known as 'buckie' - since the 1920s. But thanks to Scotland's love of the drink, their profits have soared of late. The abbey trust is a shareholder...