Record year for family-financed property predicted in 2016
By Bea Patel, TLE Property Editor and Director of Shop for an Agent Rising demand and higher property prices make it increasingly difficult for buyers to stand on their own two feet. Indications point to a worsening picture during the next 12 months, despite recent government moves to help first-time buyers, as outlined in the recent Comprehensive Spending Review. JMW Solicitors, a Manchester law firm predict that in 2016, we’ll see a record number of family-funded house moves, as property...
Alex Lodge: Weekly Report Vol. 29
By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music. Welcome to the Weekly Report. This is a playlist I’ve been releasing on my blog Liquid Architecture every Monday for the last 29 weeks. It’s made up of tracks I’ve come across in my digging sessions throughout the week, along with some old favorites from my record collection. To keep it interesting, I try to include stuff that you're unlikely to...
Beer of the Week – Goose Island Beer Co.’s Honkers Ale
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 4.3% ABV Brewed: Chicago, Illinois Set up in 1988 by founder John Hall, inspired by his travels of Europe, through which he managed to experience some incredible tasting beers from the continent, Goose Island is now one of America’s most popular craft breweries. Operating from Chicago, a city that was at the time an ideal start with plenty of rapidly evolving tastes, not to mention the largest fresh water system on the planet...
Savages Release Intense Video For ‘Adore’ Ahead of New Album
With Adore Life, one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2016, set for release on January 22nd, Savages today release their stunning new track ‘Adore’. Marrying Jehnny Beth’s commanding vocals and evocative facial expressions with intimate closeups of the band, oscillating rhythms, and surging guitars, the affecting ballad is inspired by the American poet Minnie Bruce Pratt. To mark the release of their sophomore album, the band will embark on a 28-date 2016 tour, kicking off in the UK, before traveling to Europe and...
Parliamentary Sketch 6th January – A Comedy of Errors led to The Winter’s Tale affecting more than just a Hamlet
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Like everyone, I know people I agree with and those I don’t. To weigh up how to interact with them, I always go with the “do you prefer them inside the tent pissing out or outside the tent pissing in”. Well for Cameron and Corbyn today the choice was taken from them. For Corbyn it was because after a mammoth reshuffle three Shadow Minsters resigned anyway and in Cameron’s case his tent washed away during...
In Pictures: The Biggest Fish Markets in the World
A new year, a new record-high price for wholesalers in Japan. Around this time every year a big fat tuna sells for an astronomical price in Tokyo's behemoth fish market, bringing a year of prosperity to the buyer. For the fifth time in a row, this year's highest bidder was Kiyoshi Kimura, president of a sushi restaurant chain, who bought a 200kg (440lb) endangered bluefin tuna for 14 million yen ($117,283; £80,000) at the first auction of the year at Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish...
Obama makes moving speech trying to tackle gun control
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor By his own admission President Obama has accepted he has not done enough to tackle gun control. He has made many passionate speeches on the matter before, but none of them have made any difference to the amount of guns available to Americans. Ironically, when he has made his pleas for gun use restraint after mass shootings; firearms sales actually increase. Now during a passionate speech, where Barack was reduced to tears, he has promised...
Guardiola to be next Arsenal Manager
Could Pep Guardiola be the next Arsenal Manager? Sport News 24/7 Pep Guardiola revealed this week that he would like to manage in the Premier League after leaving Bayern Munich at the end of the season. Notorious for only signing short-term contracts, the former Barcelona boss told current employers Bayern that he would not extend his contract in Germany when it expires at the end of this season. Guardiola, 44, has been linked heavily with various Premier League clubs Manchester...
Fat Cats already made more in 2016 than most will earn all year
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As of yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 6th Jan 2016) business executives have made more money than the majority of people will make during the whole of this year according to the High Pay Centre. The research has discovered that fat cats have already passed the average UK salary of £27,645 a mere two working days into the New Year. The High Pay Centre, an independent think tank, reported that FTSE 100 chief executives receive an average...