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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor For the Tories today there was some early Xmas cheer (at economic news) and Xmas groans (at some lacklustre Xmas puns, which I hope to emulate during this article). Wages are now growing faster than inflation. It was the final piece of the jigsaw (that ...
By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.” ― Karl Marx If there was ever an example of 21st century Marxism, the open letter fiasco between Russell Brand and Jo 'the disgruntled RBS worker' would be it. ...
A drivable armchair has been spotted on the streets of London as part of an innovative stunt aimed at armchair gamers. The armchair was spotted next to the London Eye, crossing the Millennium Bridge and wreaking havoc in Piccadilly Circus before coming to rest in Covent Garden and revealing a character ...
UK-founded ecommerce conversion company Ve has been forced to expand outside of the UK due to a skills shortage in the country. The company has opened a major new office in Madrid and an engineering hub in Bilbao due to the shortage of highly-skilled developers in London. The Madrid office will ...
Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh @mchughr @TLE_Sport Earlier this week Leeds United, Nottingham Forest and Blackburn Rovers were handed transfer embargoes until the end of the season for failing to adhere to the Financial Fair Play regulations regarding acceptable losses for during the last accounting period. In reality, none ...
Sport News 24/7 By Noy Shani @NoyShani @TLE_Sport Sports policy and law have become increasingly popular in recent years. Financial fair-play has been recognised as a major topic in the world of football. Noy Shani investigates how can this be enforced, who is responsible for providing the solutions, what the ...