Irving Berlin’s White Christmas
By Isla Watton and Holly Carter Guests were greeted at the Dominion Theatre on Wednesday night by a shower of fake snow pouring out of the front of the building. This festive display perfectly established the mood for the evening ahead. Set in the 1950s, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas follows the story of Phil Davis (Tom Chambers) and Bob Wallis (Aled Jones), two ex-army pals with a flair for putting on a good show, who now work as successful entertainers....
Art: What happens when fiction meets reality?
Mirrorcity – London Artists on Fiction and reality. By Isla Watton, Arts Reporter In early October a council painted over some allegedly racist graffiti. This standard procedure on the streets of Clacton-on-Sea hurled Tendring District Council into the national spotlight and set the fingers of arts critics and bloggers ablaze as it emerged that what had actually been removed was a satirical and valuable Banksy painting. Perhaps on this occasion fiction sat a little too close to home and some...
FIFA’s Latest Corruption the Final Straw
Sport News 24/7 By Matthew Biggin @MatthewBiggin @TLE_Sport So, it’s been almost a week since Michael Garcia, the gentleman assigned to examine the report clearing FIFA of any wrong doing surrounding the 2018 Russia World Cup and the farcical Qatar 2022 World Cup bids has found out, how to put this delicately…. The whole thing was a total crock. Well, colour me shocked. Seriously though, did anyone on the planet actually believe that report when it came out? FIFA have...
Geldof to re-re-re-release Band Aid for Bird Flu
Satire from Jack Peat. Bob Geldof has announced he is to re-re-re-release the Band Aid track ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas’ to fight the latest outbreak of Bird Flu. The Irish musician, known for being in the same room as Midge Ure when he wrote the popular Christmas record, said the cull of 6,000 ducks at a breeding farm in East Yorkshire was “bollocks”, adding that it was “bollocks” after further probing from a Sky News journalist. Leeds rockers The...
Inheritance Tax; Time for Reform ?
By Gregory Taylor In just about everything we do we are taxed, from buying petrol to going on holiday, buying alcohol and on what we earn. It’s something that most people in this country can never get away from, but not only that, even when we die your family could have to pay inheritance tax on your property and estate. When the Liberal government of Herbert Asquith brought in the people's budget in 1909 it brought in a super tax...
It’s official “Women let themselves go at winter”
By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor, @TLE_lifestyle Ok I admit it, when the clocks go back and it's dark at 5pm, ALL I want to do is retreat to my living room, with a HUGE box of chocolates (well for as long as chocolate exists) and sit there, vegetating until spring. I always thought I wasn't alone and new research has confirmed it, thank the lord. Women are LAZY in winter; boys deal with it. I will tone up for a...
The problem with the Church of England…
By Callum Hunter, of Write it Quick A recent YouGov poll has found that around four in ten Church of England clergy now support same-sex marriage, leaving around five in ten opposing marriage equality, with around one in ten still undecided on the issue. The poll’s findings are being regarded by some as an indication that support for marriage equality is steadily increasing within the ranks of the Church. The Archbishop of Canterbury himself appeared to have changed his position on...
Has Formula One brought itself into disrepute?
Sport News 24/7 By Charles Briscoe-Knight @TLE_Sport Imagine this situation: We come to the last lap of the last race in an excruciatingly long Grand Prix season, and Nico Rosberg leads Lewis Hamilton by the length of spark plug. Suddenly Rosberg jinks to the left and Hamilton does the opposite. Rosberg locks up in a blue cloud of Pirelli rubber and spins off, Hamilton clips his rear wing, knocks off his own nose/wing combination which locks underneath his car rendering...
Interstellar – Review
By Anna Power, Film Editor @TLE_film Christopher Nolan fans will delight at the loopy, lustrous, pyrotechnic vision that is Interstellar but will the narrative hold up by comparison? Set in the near future, in a period of post climate-change meltdown and pre-apocalyptic collapse, we find the inhabitants of Earth (those lucky enough to still be alive), surviving, all hands turned to farming in an attempt to cultivate soil that is well on its way to desertification. Dust storms are...