Fakebook: Are We All As Happy As We Look?
"We all strike a pose when it comes to social media, and we know everyone else does it too," Karen White wrote in the Huffington Post. "And yet, especially on a bad day, I still find the Voice of Judgment whispering in the back of my mind when I scroll through and see how happy everyone is, how capable and well-adjusted their children are, how much fun they have, how bravely they handle adversity." Social media has placed a veneer over...
Shoreditch Grind Celebrates 5th Birthday With 500 Free Espresso Martinis
Shoreditch Grind is celebrating its fifth birthday by giving away 500 free Espresso Martinis on 17th June. The iconic Old Street Roundabout bar will be throwing a raging five day celebration - from Monday 13th June until Friday 17th- across all of their seven sites, culminating in an epic party at Shoreditch Grind, where it all began. All week long, the Grind’s infamous Espresso Martini will be £5 at every Grind, while Shoreditch Grind will be serving up their pizzas for...
Beer of the Week – KAGUA Rouge
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Initially inspired by Cobra – a beer originally founded by Baron Bilimoria of Chelsea, especially crafted to be paired with food, working particularly well with Indian dishes – KAGUA is the brainchild of young entrepreneur Shiro Yamada. Specifically crafted to complement Japanese food, specifically designed to fit in with the national cuisine that’s becoming increasingly popular on a global scale, two beers are currently available – KAGUA Blanc and KAGUA Rouge. Both recipes are...
Brexit – How Cameron needs to negotiate whether we leave or stay
By Simon Horton Whatever happens in the poll on June 23rd, David Cameron will be doing plenty of negotiations from June 24th onwards, both with the European Union and within his own party. So what strategies should he be taking? The odds-on favourite with the bookmakers is that we will stay within the union and if this happens there will be no need for too much negotiation with Europe, most of that already took place earlier this year. The mother...
NHS WON’T fund drug that helps prevent HIV
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor For the second time NHS England has refused to fund a preventative treatment for HIV. Earlier this year they said they would not fund pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a drug described as a "game changer" by HIV charities. The decision has caused wide spread anger by AIDS charities and those at high risk of catching the infection and the wider general public. PrEP helps prevent infection in people without HIV who are at substantial risk of...
London’s Best New Restaurant Openings – June 2016
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, here’s our pick of the best new restaurants arriving in London over the coming month. Tate Modern Restaurant – Bankside Later this month, the iconic Tate Modern’s new refurbishment will be unveiled, with the opening of the brand new 10-storey Switch House building. And with the structural addition, it’s unsurprising that a brand new 150-cover fine dining restaurant is also set to open in accordance, as...
Labour MP receives 600 rape threats in one night
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The issue of Twitter abuse raised its ugly head again after a Labour MP was subjected to 600 rape threats in one evening. Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, received the abuse when she launched a campaign to stop sexual and sexist bullying on-line. The backlash she experienced was appalling and led her to declare that social media platform Twitter is “dead.” She discovered that in total there were almost five thousand notifications on...
From Selfies To Self Destruction: A Unique Insight Into Jeremy Corbyn
When Jeremy Corbyn arrived in Llandudno on the Labour leadership campaign trail some 500 people spilled out of the doors of a hotel ballroom in seaside town of just 20,000. Corbynmania had gripped the country and he was elected with the largest mandate ever won by a party leader, though no previous Labour leader had been elected with so little support from its own MPs. It's all so Michael Foot isn't it? The scruffy, eternally socialist but ultimately unlikable leader is running The...
Corbyn’s PMQs leaked, claims his top adviser
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Seumas Milne, Corbyn’s communications chief, believes that their PMQs preparations are being leaked internally. During a documentary for Vice News, where they followed Corbyn for eight weeks, Milne mentioned the “annoying” leaks. These leaks are giving the Tories the advantage at PMQs, the main focus for holding the government to account for their actions, and by far the most watched Commons session. With so many dissenters in his party it is hardly surprising that some...