Alex Lodge: Weekly Report Vol 47
By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two. Normal service resumes this week after the inaugural Guest List last week with Rick Pike from PVT (check it out here if you missed it). Kicking off with some beautiful soundtrack vibes from legendary film composer John Barry, we follow with a Starkey Remix of Einaudi from the ‘In A Time Lapse’ album, the David McCallum that Dr. Dre...
Obamacare appears to be working…but Trump will stop it
It was a monumental struggle to get into legislation but eventually Obamacare provided twenty million low-income people with health insurance. There are many Americans who are still wary of the policy and others who are outwardly hostile to it. The health law,continues to be a major point of dispute in national politics, as it has been since it passed in 2010, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has pledged to repeal the law. He has offered little indication how he would replace the...
Low Sugar Diet Is Most Popular For 2016
A low sugar diet is most popular for 2016 shows new study A new study has uncovered the latest big trend in dieting. The survey, conducted by kitchen appliance specialist, Glotechrepairs.co.uk, found that a quarter of British dieters are cutting out sugar. The second most popular food plan in the UK was to cut out carbs, with a fifth of dieters selecting a low carb or no carb option. A quarter of the 2,000 UK adults surveyed were revealed to be...
Ed Miliband Defies Successor By Backing Owen Smith
Ed Miliband has defied his successor Jeremy Corbyn by backing Owen Smith in the Labour leadership campaign. The former Labour leader joins a number of MPs looking to oust Corbyn as leader, although his efforts to do so may be as futile as his efforts in the last general election after new Labour members were given a vote in the leadership contest. Miliband says his choice to back Smith is based on what the country needs in this "extraordinary time...
Ed Balls banned from Strictly for refusing to do Trotskyite Twist
Militant judges who have just been voted onto the panel for the upcoming series of Strictly Come Dancing, have already clamped down on New Labour traitor Ed Balls. He would not do the Trotskyite twist with the 500,000 other Labour supporters at home. During rehearsal for the first show Balls told producers he wanted to concentrate on the Foxtrot, but the judges assumed it was a subtle way for him to bring back hunting animals for sport, through the medium...
#PrayforPakistan at least 70 killed by ISIS in Quetta hospital
The outcry for this latest ISIS attack has sadly not reverberated around the world as more recent atrocities in mainland Europe. A hastag doesn’t bring back any of the dead, but shows some solidarity with the innocent people who were murdered in cold blood by an IS suicide attack on a hospital in Quetta. The attack left at least 70 dead and over one hundred wounded, the death toll is likely to rise. The suicide bomber attacked on Monday and...
Brexit hits South East and capital’s economy the most
New data has come to light that indicates that businesses in the South East and London have suffered the most since the decision to leave the European Union. Companies in the region have had a negative impact on the service and manufacturing sectors. Output has contracted for the first time in almost four years as the uncertainty of what will happen in a post-Brexit UK has decreased demand. It appears business are very cautious about investing when they have no...
Over a third of UK families are one pay day away from becoming homeless
Families up and down the country are living on a knife edge, missing one pay day would mean they would not be able to pay to remain in their dwellings. Leaving millions of the brink of homelessness. A missing payment would mean that a shocking 37 per cent of working families would not be able to remain in their homes, unless they manage to borrow or find finance from elsewhere. The study shows that families simply do not have enough...
Man who sold Ford Fiesta for £300 then bought back for £7k, inspired by Pogba deal
A man who saw his old car couldn’t resist buying it back for an inflated fee, after seeing Pogba deal on TV. Terry Jones, 45 from Havant said: “I bought it back when it was young and fresh, it really looked the part. However, it was unreliable, kept breaking down on long journeys and only really enjoyed itself at home on the drive. “I should have noticed the warning signs when I first bought it, it had go faster stripes,...