An Idiot’s Adventures In Gameland – Steve McNeil
#1. Oh, hello, I didn’t see you there… Greetings, dear reader. My name is Steve McNeil and I’m lucky enough to have been asked to write things about the gaming industry for the marvellous London Economic. Each Friday, I’ll be beaming my brain-thoughts into your eyeholes via the internet, based on whatever I’ve been up to that week. As this is the first article, I’ll begin with a bit of background biography guff so you can quickly judge me and...
Getaways that are cheaper than a cab ride
Agree or disagree with today's cabbie protest against Uber, but even its drivers would concede that a black cab journey costs a fair chunk of cash. Anyone stung by a foolhardy moment of extravagance will regret it when the metre notches up your spend quicker than a petrol station pump. It transpires that this cash - or fun tokens, if you will - could be better spent flying hundreds of miles to somewhere exotic and/or cheaper than Balham. So when...
Media Power: It’s in your Hands
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Media power was a focal topic in the run up to the General Election. Sat in Russell Brand’s London apartment, Ed Miliband outlined an aggressive stance on media ownership in an effort to win over the non-voting nonconformist comedian who had passionately campaigned against oligarchs such as Rupert Murdoch. But he needn’t have bothered. According to new research, power in the media industry no longer rests with the publications. The marriage of social media and...
8 Top Tips for Raising a Child with Allergies
By Jasmine Stephens, Family Editor According to Allergy UK, 50% of children in the UK now have some form of allergic condition. These include allergies to common food stuffs such as peanuts, milk, eggs and wheat, pollens, house dust mite and insect stings. Symptoms can affect the nose, ears, throat, eyes, airways, skin and digestive system and for some children, can even include severe reactions such as anaphylaxis. Raising a child with allergies can be challenging to say the least....
Bar Review – Polo Bar at The Westbury Hotel
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food We’ve already discussed the soaring popularity of cocktails being celebrated within some of the Capital’s finest restaurants, providing a refreshing change from the more classic dinner accompaniment of Wine. However, although the restaurant scene is jumping on board, it’s London’s exclusive Bars that are still reigning over the city’s cosmopolitan drinking scene. And one of these Cocktail Bars that has been generally renowned as one of London’s finest haunts is The Polo Bar, which...
Rabbit to offer Foraged-Food-To-Go
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent This summer a Chelsea restaurant will bring a taste of the countryside to the city by offering foraged food to go. Brothers Rich and Oliver Gladwin, behind the acclaimed wild food restaurants Rabbit on Kings Road and The Shed in Notting Hill, will take to the road to bring foraged food to the rest of the country. 'Rabbit in The Shed' will serve up a slice of Richard and Oliver's rural lifestyle back in West...
Danny Collins : Film Review
By Emma Silverthorn @HouseOf_Gazelle Saved from triteness (just) by Al Pacino's utterly gratifiying, larger than life performance, Danny Collins takes as its springboard the story of folk musician Steve Tilston who received a letter from John Lennon thirty five years too late. In an interview with a music magazine Tilston had expressed some fear over the potentially corrupting power of the riches and fame integral to the rock-star trajectory. Lennon took issue with this and wrote to then twenty one...
Fighters or Terrorists? The Freedom Theatre’s The Siege Takes Us Inside A Grim Stand Off At Christianity’s Holiest Site.
By Ben Gelblum, Contributing Editor @BenGelblum The Siege by The Freedom Theatre is the largest tour ever mounted by a Palestinian theatre company in the UK. But according to the Mail on Sunday - the 10 city UK tour is “£15,000 of public money given to show based on the words of Hamas killers.” The Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp in Palestine has been an artistic hub of cultural resistance to occupation since it was established in 2006. Obtaining visas,...
IP: Combatting the Production of Counterfeit Goods
By Chris McLeod As Alibaba rolls out technology to catch counterfeit fashion retailers and fights a lawsuit brought by a luxury design house, Versace fights off a singular London artist that has sued the iconic brand for allegedly copying a t-shirt design. It’s become increasingly difficult to figure out who is David and who is Goliath. Intellectual property rights in fashion are clearly having their heyday for both established design businesses as much as the new start-up. It is no...