By Pieter Cranenbroek Last month, protesters against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) carried a Trojan Horse onto a square in Amsterdam. The horse was not nearly as big as the original one that, according to myth, marked the fall of Troy, but its message was clear: the trade ...
London is a hub of roller-coaster house prices, new research has revealed, with the cost of a house per square foot varying by hundreds of pounds across the boroughs. Property buyers searching around Hounslow can expect to pay just £338 per square foot on average, while those with their hearts ...
By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle I don't have children but I do have to avoid the careless hazardous driving around the time of the school run. More than a quarter of mums have had an accident after being distracted by their children, on the way. A study carried out ...
(Krishna Athal has received various leadership initiative awards from national and international bodies. Former chairman of the National Youth Council of Mauritius, he authored the 'Ramrajya: An Enigmatic Leader's Rise to Power' book and is currently an executive member of MSM political party. He can be found on Twitter at ...
By Jonathan Hatchman @JonHatchman Spread across the past decade or so, a whole wave of pubs in the Greenwich area have re-established to fit in with the trendy restaurant scene. Notable institutions to have become foodie pilgrimage hotspots are The Trafalgar Tavern and The Cutty Sark, set along the riverfront ...
By J T Coombes www.globalmagnacarta.com @GMagnaCarta The use of taxpayer money to bail out the banks has become the biggest bank robbery in the history of our species. Robbery because taxpayer funds were only ever designed to provide the infrastructures that support society; healthcare, education, roads, railways, and ...
There are few cities in the world that showcase the turn of the seasons quite like London, and as such, as a London dweller, you become quite attached to the classical seasonal traits. Summers spent sat on rooftop terraces sipping Prosecco and munching on Mediterranean-style salads, autumns in warm pop-up ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The PM didn’t seem to need to directly attack Ed today, he let Miliband’s own team do it for him. He alleged Labour figures had said of Ed, “concern if he can lead the country”, “Useless”, “hopeless, “doesn’t cut it” and that was just his ...
Christmas is a magical time in London. Father Christmas once said that “if it wasn’t for the abundance of skilled seasonal labour in Lapland, I would have set up shop in London”, but if we missed out on the workshops, we certainly got his sales floor. Harrods lit in all ...