Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada Abderramahne Sissako revisits the country of his childhood, Mali, in his powerful outcry of a film. Timbuktu and the surrounding desert region were under jihadist control for about a year from 2012 to 2013. The new leaders, for the most part coming from different countries, ride around ...
By Ivan McKeever, CEO SwitchMyBusiness.com It is a political cliché that if every one of Britain’s 5.2 million small and micro firms were each helped to create one job, we would wipe out our unemployment problem. But what do those parties seeking our votes offer beyond tempting rhetoric at election ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food “Well at least Michel Roux came to greet us,” one ageing gentleman bellows from a few tables away, adapting the audacity of a dated Town Crier. Unfortunately Marcus Wareing isn’t present at his mother ship restaurant at The Berkeley Hotel but he can be ...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent A new study has been released revealing the top 50 most boring things of modern life. Party Political Broadcasts, Fifty Shades of Grey and shopping channels have been hailed as life’s biggest bores according to a study which asked 2,000 adults about what causes them to ...
By Richard de Winter @rgdewinter @TLE Now it may have escaped your notice, gentle Reader, but there is a General Election imminent. You could be forgiven for not knowing. It’s not like the newspapers and news bulletins have been blathering on about nothing else for the last few weeks, or ...
By Rob Foster How has your career in investment informed your belief in equity, and how did you come to write the book? I started to have these conversations with colleagues a couple of years ago, based on the premise that equity is the only way to access newly created ...
By Monkey Poet “What do you do?” “I'm a poet...” “I mean to put food on the table.” “I poet.” “....!!!!” I've had this conversation so many times over the last five years, I stopped counting at 'hundreds'. However, due to the current resurgence in Poetry's popularity, with John Cooper-Clarke ...
by Miranda Schiller @mirandadadada Girlhood is the story of Marième's journey from obedient child to defiant girl gang member to young adult fending for herself. It is a story of black female teenagers in the suburbs of Paris. It is a story of female friendship. It is a story of ...
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Protein World's 'Beach Body Ready' campaign has kicked up such a big fuss of late you would have thought body-shaming was a new concept, but the reality is that the girl in the yellow bikini has merely drawn people's attention to a more prominent body ...