By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Prime Minister really should stop trying to do accents. This time he tried a Scottish one, I think, speaking at the annual conference of the Scottish Conservative Party. He told the crowd he went into a chip shop after a rugby match at Edinburgh's Murrayfield ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Since July 2015 fourteen MPs have had their credit cards suspended for not providing evidence of their spending on time or making the repayments. In total a debt of £27k has led to the blocking of their credit cards. Ipsa (Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority) issues ...
By Eleanor Sammeijer (@ElStammjam) Chris Stapleton’s got the chops. Two Grammy’s, winner of the 2015 Country Music Association Awards for Best Male Vocalist, New Artist of the Year, and Album of the Year. Expectations for a new listener going into his new album Traveller are understandably high. The album ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food As is the case with most of its neighbouring powerhouses, Novikov – the eponymous London flagship of Russian restaurateur Arkady Novikov – is very much a place to be seen. A social media friendly temple of excess, frequented by women that dress and often ...
North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered the country's nuclear weapons be readied for use at any time, according to reports on the Korean Central News Agency. He told military leaders the country should revise its military posture to be ready to launch pre-emptive strikes following new sanctions imposed by ...
By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) The Berghain has a bipolar reputation. For those able to breach the walls of this notorious techno club, which is positioned on the border of East and West Berlin, a homecoming, a religious experience, an unforgettable night of sex, drugs and industrial noise awaits. For the ...
by Shilpa Ganatra, travel editor The Maldives – a group of 1,192 coral islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean – might be associated with romantic honeymoons and its sugar-white beaches, but its real draw is found once you step off each island, as its Finding Nemo-style coral reefs ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor I am from Newcastle and yes I have what some would call " a stupid incomprehensible accent," and inevitably some "joker" in the pub will try and mimic it for "comic" effect. It makes me cringe especially when begged to say "why aye man," to ...
The entire population of middle England became so angry, when the two most politically correct events ever happened on one day, they exploded. It caused a power surge of anger of epic proportions, that they all spontaneously combusted. Gary, 36 from Widnes was driving through Berkshire when the rugby tackling ...