Dear Santa – A QPR Christmas wish
By Richard de Winter @rgdewinter @TLE_Sport Dear Santa, First of all, hope that all’s going well for you at this busy time of year, and that you’re not too swamped by the deluge of demands for an iPad from armies of over-privileged 6-year-olds with a worrying sense of entitlement. Give them all a lump of coal I say, the chances are they’ve been more naughty than nice, and anyway what possible benefit could a 6-year-old gain from owning an iPad?...
Pardew out – we shouldn’t have let him back in
Sport News 24/7 By Ian Caroll Newcastle United fans are ungrateful, deluded and fickle. You’ll already know this if you read the work of some of the finest journalistic minds of our age- Paddy Barclay, Rob ‘Shep’ Shepherd et al. Those deluded Geordies have actually dared to criticise Alan Pardew after their eleven brave lions were dumped out of the League Cup at White Hart Lane. How very dare they…What do these Northern Clowns expect? Their team had played half...
Julian Casablancas + The Voidz at The London Coronet
By Will Bateman, Music Reporter After releasing 2001’s genre defining Is This It? with The Strokes Julian Casablancas has struggled to match its impact, and more importantly appeared to struggle with his own artistic satisfaction with their output. His first solo outing, the synth-pop heavy Phrazes for The Young seemed to be a move in the direction of creative freedom, but even then struggled with the powers that be. Expressing in hindsight a lack of gratification stating he’d wanted to...
Meet PEGIDA, Germany’s middle class ‘pinstriped Nazis’
By Elsa Buchanan, International Politics reporter They have been labelled "Nazis in pinstripes" by members of the government and rally by the thousands against asylum-seekers and the supposed threat of the "Islamification" of Germany. Yet, they are desperate to prove they are not racist to attract a wide range of supporters. Welcome into the world of the fast-growing "Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West”, best known under its acronym PEGIDA. In its most recent show of strength, the German-born far-right populist movement attracted...
Lambert and Villa reaching crunch point as sell-off looms
Sport News 24/7 By Adam Clark @AdamClarkers @TLE_Sport The Premier League is in a state of flux this season – or perhaps just the culmination of several years of change. The Big 4 gradually changed to a Big 5, Big 6 and even a Big 7. Nowadays, if we want to include Liverpool and Everton, we’d have to talk about a Big 11. Or perhaps we could coin a new phrase and talk about the ‘top half’ and ‘bottom half’...
Dallas Cowboys: are they genuine NFC contenders?
Sport News 24/7 By Sean Simara @Sean_FootyMad @TLE_Sport If you asked any Dallas Cowboys fan pre-season what their expectations were for the season it would have been; don't finish bottom in the NFC East, and maybe improve on the record of 8-8 which it has been for the past 3 seasons. Currently the Cowboys are 10-4 and on course to win the NFC East, so how far can they go? Probably the most famous side in the NFL, the Cowboys,...
Oil spill: Not another Bangladeshi catastrophe
By Elsa Buchanan, International Politics reporter After initial news reports relayed pictures of the oil spill “catastrophe” in Bangladesh last week, the media have fallen somewhat silent. Disasters are so common in Bangladesh that they go unnoticed. Children covered in fuel oil up to their waist are trying to gather the sticky slick using buckets. Local fishermen, trudging in dark waters, are using pots and sacks to collect the viscous fuel. Yet, it is in the quasi indifference of the international community that an...
Top Tips for Businesses on how to Save Money and Cut Carbon
By Mark Sait, CEO of leading energy-saving specialists SaveMoneyCutCarbon.com Carbon inefficiency is costing British businesses billions of pounds. 90 per cent of British businesses say rising energy prices pose a threat to their competitiveness and 83 per cent of SMEs say they will miss their growth targets this year because of energy price rises. Utility bills have doubled in the past decade and are forecast to double again in the next 10 years. And the Government has repeatedly warned that...
Sony’s Hacking Nightmare (Continued)
By Anna Power, Film Editor Update Tuesday 23rd Dec: Sony in another U-turn have decided to release The Interview on December 25th. Bowing to presidential and public opinion the company have decided to go ahead with the release but to a limited theatrical audience. Sony have announced that they are planning a simultaneous VOD release though they have yet to name the online streaming service. UPDATE: CNN reports that Sony has now pulled the Christmas Day release of The Interview after...