The cost of not listening
By Christine Gatt The second week of October was Mental Health Week, a small frenzy of activity I watched with interest. I have been following the debates around NHS funding and waiting lists for mental health treatment. I’m fascinated by the continued discrimination and misunderstanding of the illnesses which fall under this umbrella. It’s not that mental health illnesses are easy to understand, far from it. More that they are so often neglected, or ignored. The term mental health implies...
An African tourist in Africa: Cote d’Ivoire, Otherness and Ebola
An African tourist in Africa: Cote d’Ivoire, Otherness and Ebola. By Audrey Sebatindira There are few things better than being a tourist. It’s that sense of wonder that comes with seeing the ordinary from the perspective of an outsider; nothing is taken for granted. Everything is strange and new and therefore worth stopping in the middle of the street for, camera in hand, oblivious to locals who sidestep you in pursuit of lives that seem far too banal for...
Summer, sun, sex and…marriage?
Did your holiday romance stand the test of time? At 100 days since the start of summer, loveholidays.com reveals the secrets of the British holiday romance By Neil Kook Results of a new survey by leading online travel agent loveholidays have revealed the true secrets of Briton’s holiday romances, but are we as naughty as we are often made out to be? Summertime, a time to let down your hair down and hit the beach with your friends,...
Nearly one in three flights to Spanish winter sun destinations delayed
Nearly one in three flights to Spanish winter sun destinations delayed By Neil Kook Tenerife worst for delays from UK, with Lanzarote, Mallorca, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria close behind Incredibly one in three (30%) flights to Spanish winter sun destinations is delayed, according to new figures from flightright.co.uk, the consumer portal for air passenger compensation for delayed, cancelled or overbooked flights. Flights to Tenerife South, Palma de Mallorca, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria have all seen a high number of delays...
Tenerife’s First Walking Festival
The highlights of Tenerife’s First Walking Festival By Neil Kook For those who wish to venture to the rugged and beautiful north of the island, now is the time, as organisers of the first Tenerife Walking Festival announce highlights of the four day event. Taking place in Puerto de la Cruz from 10th – 14th March 2015, individuals who have an interest in walking and a good sense of adventure, could find what they are looking for. Nestled in...
Lancaster chooses the pragmatic path to success
By Jots du Jardin @jotsdujardin @TLE_Sport Stuart Lancaster's squad selection is an admission that he'd be happy to only reach the quarter finals in next year's World Cup. It's the type of squad he believes he'll need to beat Australia and Wales in 2015, not South Africa, New Zealand and the Wallabies this Autumn. In his press conference after announcing his squad, Lancaster was uncompromising in his message: “To be the best it’s not about the flash stuff,” he said....
The trouble with Ed Miliband
By Richard Roberts The trouble with Ed Miliband isn’t that he’s too intellectual and can’t communicate with ordinary people. It isn’t that he’s too socialist and in the pocket of the trades unions. It isn’t even that he looks like Wallace; nor that by allowing himself to be snapped eating a bacon butty, he unwittingly created the most embarrassing on-camera-moment for a Labour leader since Neil Kinnock fell over while walking on a beach with his wife. And no, it...
The Economic Implications of the Digital Skills Gap
By Jeff Fernandez, co-founder and CEO, Grovo Learning You’d think that with the advance of emerging computer, nano, mobile -- and now yes, even wearable -- technologies, individual productivity would be soaring. Instead, of the more than 200 million adults in the US digital workforce, only one in ten consider themselves ‘very proficient’ with the digital tools they use every day. And research conducted by Adobe shows the flipside of that equation: 58 per cent of employees - despite using a...
Frankie’s goes to Hollywood
Take an Italian Anglophile with a penchant for American food and set him up in a Premier League football ground and you get Frankie's Sports Bar & Diner, an American style sports bar collaboration between Marco Pierre White and Frankie Dettori. After various collaborations with Mr Pierre White – dubbed the godfather of modern cooking – Signor Dettori has re-vamped the Chelsea FC diner moving it away from being an Italian into an all-out American diner; so less chequered table...