The 74 MPs who plan to vote against triggering Article 50

These are the 74 MPs who plan to vote against triggering Article 50 after the Supreme Court ruled that Theresa May must consult Parliament before triggering Britain's exit from the European Union. The MPs will be viewed by many as not only wreaking havoc among the parliamentary Brexiters but also defying the will of the people. Over 17 million people voted to leave the European Union in June, compared to around 16 million who voted to remain. Few Conservative MPs are...

TLE Meets…Eleanor Conway

Eleanor's debut stand up show ‘Walk of Shame’, which premiered at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival to critical acclaim, is set to embark on a nationwide tour UK next month. The tour takes in 23 dates starting on 3rd February at the Brighton Komedia and culminating on 30th September at Bollington Arts Centre. Ferocious clubber and party girl Eleanor Conway has always been a woman of extremes; she partied around the world as a music journalist, ran off to Asia...

TLE Meets…The Club

The Club, starring and written by Ruaraidh Murray, comes to London’s Vaults Festival from 1st – 5th March after a hugely successful sell out and critically acclaimed Edinburgh Festival run last year, that premiered this new theatre production. This dark and seedy comedy also stars Mark Farrelly, think Phoenix Nights meets the Sopranos, if that is even possible! 1) What’s the inspiration behind ‘The Club’? The inspiration behind The Club was London's legendary 90’s club, The Tardis. As they say,...

GALLOPS Reform for New Release ‘Bronze Mystic’

After releasing their debut album, a monstrous slab of dark experimental rock Yours Sincerely Dr. Hardcore in 2012 and at the peak of their sci-fi powers Wrexham’s Gallops soon announced they were no more and broke up in 2013. In 2016, almost three years to the day, they announced their return. “We missed it too much, basically having some time away from the band gave us a fresh perspective and made us realise that Gallops still has life in it....

Britain’s next F1 superstar?

Hear the term ‘teenage driver’ and the first things that pop into your head are quite possibly a ‘Nissan Micra’ and ‘sky high insurance premiums’, but one 18 year old from Bishops Stortford is demonstrating that a lack of years is no barrier to driving talent. Not only is Callum Ilott’s tender age belying his success as a multiple karting champion but, unlike so many other drivers in motorsport whose fathers also competed, Ilott’s unorthodox journey didn’t start with watching...

Irving, Breitbart, Lipstadt: What Holocaust deniers can teach us about post-truth

By Linda Marric When Breitbart, a pro-Trump alt-right news website, posted a story about how a mob of Muslim men chanting “Allah Akbar” had vandalised a German church on New Year’s Eve, the story was shared thousands of times across social media platforms before finally being debunked by German police a few days later. In a year that saw “post-truth” nominated as word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries, it remains important to recognise how damaging even the smallest a...

Toni Erdmann: Film Review

Wyndham Hacket Pain @WyndhamHP Those of us who spent our childhoods and adolescence partaking in school plays will understand how formative it can be to stand on stage and pretend to be someone else. I for one can remember the confidence I took from playing a role that held little or no resemblance to myself. Sometimes it is only under the guise and identity of someone else that we are truly able to learn about ourselves. Toni Erdmann, which plays...

South Africa to approve international trade in 800 lions from controversial ‘canned hunting’ industry

Born Free warns heinous trade threatens beleaguered wild lions International wildlife charity, Born Free Foundation, has warned that South Africa’s intention to grant an annual commercial export quota of 800 skeletons sourced from captive-bred lions raised in canned hunting facilities could threaten wild populations and perpetuate suffering.

Since the release of the film Born Free in 1966, Africa’s lions have declined by at least 80%. Today, as few as 20,000 individuals occupy just 8% of their historic range across Africa, with...

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