Ken Clarke and Sir Malcolm Rifkind have been caught on tape giving an unguarded opinion of the Tory leadership candidates. Michael Gove, Theresa May, Andrea Leadsom, Stephen Crabb and Liam Fox are running to take charge of the Conservative Party, but a scathing review of their policies by Clarke and Rifkind could dampen their chances. The full transcript broken down by candidate is below: On Gove: Rifkind said: "I don't mind who wins as long as Gove comes third. As long as...
Uruguaran Pablo Cuevas threatened to urinate on court during a doubles match with Britain's Jonny Marray and Adil Shamasdin. Umpire Aurelie Tourte refused Cuevas a toilet break which resulted in him threatening to wee into a ball can. He and his doubles partner Marcel Granollers then held a sit-down protest after receiving warnings for said violation and hitting a ball out of court. "You have to take bad calls on the chin at some point," said Britain's Marray. "I went to the bathroom twice during the...
Romance is dead, right? Or has it been re-imagined? Modern dating seems to be eschewing all the conventional rules of chivalry in favour of equality. Today, women are expected to at least offer to pay the bill and couples are increasingly going Dutch when dining out. British women take the gold in the 'dating Olympics' for splitting the bill 50/50 with a majority reporting that they offered to pick up the bill on alternating dates — far more often than women...
Support for the European Union in Denmark has surged to new highs with Danish people keen to avoid putting themselves in the "kind of mess the British have created for themselves". A new poll has countered fears that the Scandinavian nation might be the next country to hold a referendum, revealing 69 per cent of Danish people now endorse the country’s membership of the union, up 10 per cent from the week leading up to the Brexit vote. The Voxmeter poll also...
'Remain voters are getting really boring now. It’s called democracy. They lost. Why don’t they just get over it?' This weekend saw tens of thousands of people march through the streets of London to protest over the EU referendum result. Banners such as ‘UN F*&k my Future’ ‘We are the 48%’ and ‘Winning by lying = cheating’ were on show as the swelling crowds overflowed out of Parliament Square. Some estimates suggested over 50,000 people attended the march. The march...
Actor Christoph Waltz has compared Nigel Farage to the "head rat" following the resignation of the UKIP leader. Farage quit as leader of the UK Independence Party saying he feels he has "done his bit" and that now he has his "country back", he wants his life back. The resignation was raised with Waltz in a recent interview for his upcoming movie Tarzan. The Austrian-German actor is known to have strong opinions on Brexit, and he responded with: "Of course the head...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Although the food of China has been popular in the UK for many years, it is only more recently that the tired stereotype of Anglicised Chinese cuisine has began to positively evolve. For a very long time, alas, there has been an ignorant British belief that the globe’s most populous nation has little more to offer than chow mein, special fried rice, and sweet and sour pork that’s to be drowned in incandescent orange...
By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two. Happy Monday people. The England football team are back to bothering prostitutes in expensive night clubs in West London, Brexit is old news and every political leader in the country has decided that leading just isn’t for them. Combined, it’s the type of thing that could make you a little bit miserable. Not to worry though, Week 45 is...
There is no denying the popularity of social media platforms. Websites and downloadable applications help us to communicate, share photos and talk to friends and family far away, but we also use social media for our business aims. Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Linked In and Bing or sales platforms like Etsy and Shopify help us to advertise products online (often) free of charge. You may be wondering if allocating funds for printed business listings, business cards, flyers, calendars and posters to communicate with customers about...
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