By Will Robinson Around this time every year, as the knowledge that spring has well and truly sprung dawns upon of the capital, you may notice a few curious and interesting behavioural patterns emerge among London's general populous. These include the universal agreement that getting drunk on Pimms at two in the afternoon just because the sun is shining is universally encouraged, the customary grumbling of a disgruntled customer at the bloke who runs the Mr Whippy van about a 99...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With the continuing success of acclaimed Pizzeria Homeslice, it’s been announced that the restaurant is set to take over a brand new premises in Fitzrovia. Beginning as a street food vendor attached to an East London brewery, Homeslice opened their first permanent restaurant in 2013, located in Covent Garden’s Neal’s Yard, where they’ve been serving their 20-inch Pizzas over the past couple of years. Few details surrounding the new Fitzrovia outpost have been confirmed...

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 and bars arriving in London over the coming month. The Melt Room – Soho The latest single menu restaurant to open in Central London is Soho’s The Melt Room – a small shop that specialises in grilled Cheese Sandwiches. The 12-seat diner is set to offer a limited menu that includes a range of grilled Cheese Sandwiches, including...

By Alan Owens, Partner and Head of Technology at law firm DWF The current Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations explicitly fail to address the big issues facing the global tech industry – data and US dominance. These issues have come right to the fore following the recent EU action against internet giant Google. Google has been in the crosshairs of the EU for some time, replacing Microsoft as its US tech target of choice. On 27 November last...

Guaranteed great weather is a must for a typical getaway. But where in the world is the sun always shining and the birds always singing? Global property portal Lamudi put together their top seven destinations which enjoy year-round holiday weather. And they've all moved to the top of our bucket list. Indonesia Escape the busy capital Jakarta and head to the beaches of Bali, one of the thousands of islands in the Indonesia archipelago. With its mix of rugged mountains...

By David Binder  Alongside the more established parties, General Elections usually bring their fair share of serious and not so serious smaller parties, and 2015 is no exception. One party making something of a comeback is the Whig Party. Whilst to some the Whig name will illicit visions of politics of a by gone era, the party under leader Waleed Ghani apparently offers a radical new vision for the 21st century whilst remaining true to it’s progressive roots. To find out...

Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh  @mchughr  @TLE_Sport In the summer of 1999, I never thought I would write the following sentence.  Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink could be a great success as the manager of Leeds United.  I am prepared for the abuse that this may bring, but I genuinely believe it to be the truth.  A man, whose name was tarnished by the acrimonious circumstances surrounding his departure, has been heavily linked with a move to Elland Road to take...

By Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada Karidja Touré, the celebrated star of Céline Sciamma's Girlhood, looks small in the big hotel room armchair where she sits doing back-to-back interviews all day. She looks small, but not lost. She is visibly really enjoying this, soaking in every minute of this new part of her life, being an actress. She was literally cast off the street for Girlhood, but she did secretly always dream of being an actress. Karidja explained: “Sometimes when people ask...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Branded simply online as “E17”, thankfully there’s absolutely no connection to Brian Harvey’s band, of the same name, present at the latest outpost of Grillstock. Just a short walk from Walthamstow Central station, the chain’s latest Smokehouse follows the success of the music festival of the same name: taking places across three cities and bringing a weekend of “meat, music and mayhem.” This year’s music headliners include Grandmaster Flash (Manchester), De La Soul (Bristol),...