By Lamia Walker, Founder of HouseSitMatch.com Like many a good ideas, the Sharing Economy has taken a strong hold pretty rapidly, manifesting itself in multi-faceted forms facilitating many aspects of our lives. In London we all know Boris Bikes and car sharing companies like Citycar, and many of us have taken part in some collaborative trading through sites like eBay and Amazon, in fact they are so much part of our culture that they have been absorbed into our language – we...

</a ></a >Sport News</a > 24/7 By Will Magee  @W_F_Magee  @TLE_Sport The London Economic continues its focus on non-league football with a visit to Dulwich Hamlet where Will Magee found the club ethos to be diametrically opposite to that of the Premier League. Over the last month, the Premier League’s reputation has surely reached a new low.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s been deteriorating for much longer than that; soaring prices, despotic owners, leveraged buyouts, text message scandals and dire behaviour on...

Sport News 24/7 By Simon White  @SimonWhite14  @TLE_Sport Brought to light by a series of astonishingly bad decisions in recent weeks, it is hard to refute the fact that the standard of refereeing in the Premier League is dropping.  From sending off the wrong player to Manuel Figueroa not receiving a card for leaving an utterly horrific gash in Stephen Ireland’s leg, it is about time the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) realised things need to change.  Whether it...

By Declan Roberts (@Declanmr) There has been much talk lately of guitar music’s fall from grace, the genre supposedly fading in popularity as its one cutting edge grows dull. I however look at it in a completely different light. 2015 has an impressive roster of records coming out that look set to keep guitar music fresh; Drenge, The Vaccines, The Maccabees and Palma Violets to name but a few. But you don’t need to look ahead to see the saviours...

By Jonathan Hatchman Following the success of Shot Espresso and the recently opened pizza and ice cream parlor - Ice & Slice, the team behind these two ventures will be opening a brand new 40-cover restaurant; Bistrò by Shot in Parson’s Green next week (March 19th). Headed up by accomplished Head Chef Fabrice Meier, the new all-day dining concept will offer seasonal dishes with a French-Italian twist that’s set to use ingredients sourced predominantly from a range of local suppliers....

Domestic violence will affect 25 per cent of women and 17 per cent of men in their lifetime ranging from physical abuse to sexual, emotional or financial abuse, but what legal protection do people have against it happening to them? In order to make these options clear Laker Legal has created this easy to digest guide on the topic of legal protection available for anybody experiencing domestic abuse. The infographic includes information on the scale of the problem, how to identify...

Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter  @TLE_Sport As Bangladesh seamer Rubel Hossain castled James Anderson, it put the final nail in England’s World Cup coffin.  One win in five matches.  They were completely thrashed against Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka, comprehensively outplayed against Bangladesh and their solitary victory, against the might of Scotland, wasn’t exactly convincing.  To put this in context, this is English cricket’s lowest point since they were officially the worst cricket...

By Alex Jones Part of the Arcade Fire family, Will Butler may not have been your first guess for which member of the nine strong indie legends would stray into solo territory. Then again, there’s so damn many of them, any bet would’ve been an outside one. The bassist/keyboardist/percussionist takes centre stage on this, his first full-length release away from the band. Actually, calling it “full length” might be a bit deceiving. Policy is only eight songs long and is...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Certainties are few and far between in this year’s General Election, but there are two things that can be said with relative comfort; we will have a hung Parliament, and SNP will take the majority, if not all, of Labour’s stronghold seats in Scotland. It is quite unusual for political parties to be this resigned to a coalition government this early on in an election campaign. Opinion polls suggest a single party...