Sport News 24/7 By Dan McLaughlin  @McGloogly @gridirongents @TLE_Sport As we breeze past the half-way point in an NFL Season that feels like it will be over in the blink of an eye, this year’s Rookie draft has the potential to be one of the best ever.  All over the field of play, the newbies are pulling their considerable weight just as much as the gnarled veterans.  Now is as good a time as any to break down the class...

By Valentina Magri Inequality has been one of the most heated topics of economic debate in 2014 after the great success of Thomas Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”. The book was awarded the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year prize on 11 November 2014. Mr Piketty, who is in China promoting his book, said in the accepting video that “issues about economic wealth and capital and public debt are too important to be left to a...

By Charlotte Stringer, Style Editor at STYLIGHT.co.uk With mass-hysteria last week as Alexander Wang x H&M hit stores worldwide, the collection was the latest in a long line of designer collaborations with the Swedish high street brand, 10 years’ worth, in fact. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of high end partnerships, H&M released a book, The First Ten Years, chronicling the collections from Karl Lagerfeld in 2004, to Jimmy Choo, Lanvin, last year’s hit, Isabel Marant plus everyone else in...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic In London, the land of the real deal, poor imitations stick out like a sore thumb. Described as being a 'stylish nightclub with 1970s-themed disco, a club room and restaurant with an eclectic menu', The Sway is more akin to a Wetherspoons with a bit of icing sugar on top. The ballroom interior with private leather booths and chandeliers lulls you into a false perception of grandeur when you first arrive which...

By Henry Austin There’s a phrase in the Kurdistan region of Iraq: “Those days when we had no friends but the mountains.” It speaks to a time when as a people they had nowhere else to seek shelter from oppression, most recently from the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein. Today they have plenty of friends as they stand on the front line in the battle with the extremist Islamic State rebels in both Syria and Iraq. From a safe distance...

By J T Coombes   www.globalmagnacarta.com    @GMagnaCarta As I once again watched the Remembrance Day Service at the Cenotaph, for the first time in six and a half decades a part of me felt a violent sense of anger that truly shocked me. As I sought answers to why this emotion had emerged with such force it became clear that, whilst the very act of remembering pays an essential tribute to the many, often young men and women who...

Remembrance Day is a tricky time of year for pacifists. How do you pay your respects to all those who fell in the World Wars without subscribing to the propagandist nature of remembrance, the glorification of war and the unavoidable political entwinement of it all?  Armistice Day is a celebration of peace, yet it has never been so entangled with messages of war. There is a common misconception that pacifists do not honour those who have died in the service...

 By Naomi Nightingale  Nothing is off limits, even for a solo, female traveller, but if you’re daring enough to take to the streets of Marrakech alone, be sure you’re in the travel know.    There is a land that has caressed my dreams ever since I heard of its flowing deserts and colourful culture. It has always been a waiting wonder, whose path I’d never gained the privilege of crossing. Marrakech, Morocco, Africa’s diverse daughter, had eluded and teased my...

Sport News 24/7 By Matthew Biggin  @MatthewBiggin @TLE_Sport Liverpool have seemed to be the much talked about ‘club in crisis’ in recent months, but there is certainly a feeling that the winters of discontent are beginning to blow around the corridors of The Etihad, as Manchester City seem to be struggling to recapture the form that won them their second Premier League crown. The season is just over a quarter through and City already lie in 3rd place, 8 points...