Mr Electable: Five Reasons why Jeremy Corbyn Could Win the Election for Labour

By Jack Peat, TLE Editor  Jeremy Corbyn. A man of principal, a man with a vision for the Labour party and a man with a huge mandate to achieve it, but ultimately, a man who is considered to be unelectable come the General Election in 2020. That is the general consensus. Corbyn is seen as being left of left, anti-capitalism, anti-wealth creation, anti-monarchy, anti-British and out to disrupt the 21st century bubble in which banks are a force for the...

The Salt of the Earth : Film Review

By Leslie Byron Pitt @Afrofilmviewer Wim Winders Oscar nominated feature The Salt of the Earth is a remarkably timely feature, which highlights the work of social photographer Sebastiao Salgado. The film details Salgado's powerful imagery of refugees from all over the world from the sands of Sudan to the Gold Mines of Serra Pelada. The film is light on many elements within his photography, with much of Salgado's footage is of dead or dying persons, and the film only scratching...

A Girl at My Door : Film Review

By Adam Turner @AdamTurnerPR July Jung's dark drama, A Girl at My Door, explores the troubled lives of two forlorn souls living in a sleepy fishing village in South Korea. Young-nam (Doona Bae) is a dejected police academy officer who has been transferred from Seoul to Yeosu after an unexplained 'police misconduct'. Much to her surprise, she becomes a knight in shining armour to Dohee's (Kim Sae Ron), a local teenager whose life is riddled with torment and misery. In...

West Ham Vs Newcastle Review – “Danny Dyer is a wanker”

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It comes to something when the most fun you had at an away game is being stuck on the Hammersmith & City line for an hour, and missing the first twenty minutes of the match. As ever the lads met in the Railway Tavern in Liverpool Street, doesn’t seem to matter if we are playing Chelsea that’s where we meet. Pretty much six quid for a pint of Kronenbourg…canny. Some of the lads had “worked”...

Maybeshewill Call It Quits and Announce Final Show

Sad news, post rock fans. Maybeshewill are calling it a day after a decade of service to the good-time instrumental cause. The band are currently putting together their final tour, culminating at Koko, London on 15th April 2016, so there's still plenty of time to pay your respects. Check out the full statement from Maybeshewill below. 'When we started this band over a decade ago it was just a bedroom project that we never really imagined playing live with. Every...

How would you power the Doctor’s TARDIS?

By Dr. Robin George Andrews  Series 9 of Doctor Who premieres on the 19th September with The Magician’s Apprentice. In the meantime, another (lesser known) doctor, Dr. Andrews, has been pondering on the power source of the TARDIS: the Eye of Harmony. That’s right: the man who stops the monsters is back, and he’s not alone. The Master – reincarnated as the phenomenally mischievous Missy – is somehow alive and kicking, and is teaming up with the intrepid, effervescent Clara to...

Footballers’ diving the fault of foreign players

By David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter The widespread problem of footballers’ diving has been blamed on the influx of foreign players for years but now a study from the University of Portsmouth has found they are seen to be the worst culprits. Football referee expert Dr Tom Webb interviewed nearly 40 refereeing professionals from England, Spain and Italy and found that the growing trend of player deception is directly linked to the large number of foreign players in...

Sleaford Mods are Playing Dismaland and They’re Pretty Happy About It

Sleaford Mods are scheduled to play at Banksy’s much talked about Dismaland this Friday, an event that frontman Jason Williamson has personally been looking forward to ahead of their Key Markets UK tour this month: "I got asked about 8 months ago if Sleaford fancied playing an art exhibition. I asked who's it was and got told whose it was and I thought yes, why not? I thought it was really good that we'd been asked. Why shouldn't I think...

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