By David de Winter – Sports Editor @LondonEconomic @davidjdewinter Usually I only go to Mayfair by mistake, either when I'm lost or stumbling to Park Lane to get a Nightbus at 4am. However, this week, as a treat, TLE sent me to the Mayfair Pizza Co. for dinner. ‘Mayfair?’, I thought. ...
By Harry Bedford Multiculturalism is as much a part of the fabric of London as Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge and that gloried Ferris wheel that resides downstream. In many ways London is a miniature version of the world and all its cultures, so luckily for us we don’t have go ...
By Sky Holmes, Travel Editor Plans to regenerate London’s Victoria district, including introducing more visible security and increasing green spaces, have been unveiled by the Victoria Business Improvement District (BID). Victoria BID, established in April 2010, most recently outlined proposals to raise £8m through a levy on local businesses to ...
The Philippines: Jungle experiment By Sophie Turton “Slow down!” The motorcycle bounces as we accelerate over aged cement, veined and grouchy. El Nido’s Roller-coaster road is not kind; it twists unexpectedly, careens round, juts out towards the archipelago and then pulls back into the land. Stones and broken glass, ...
Sport News 24/7 Jim Mackney @JimMackney @TLE_Sport Before kick-off you could have forgiven Saints fans for being a little nervous about this evening’s League Cup 4th round tie against Stoke. After all, for all of the pretty football Saints play could they do it on a cold and windy Wednesday ...
By Philip O'Meara @philipomeara “Oh, no, you’re not a veggie…” Beyond its inconvenience (inconveniencing a friend or eating another mushroom risotto at an unimaginative restaurant), it’s the implication that being vegetarian is an inherently bad – or at least unhinged – position which has encouraged me to put down my reasoning in ...
By Steve Taggart The call for nominations have just opened for the 43rd Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award. The award, which counts Dame Marjorie Scardino DBE FRSA, Anya Hindmarch MBE and Dame Zaha Hadid DBE as past winners, celebrates the success of business women worldwide who share the same qualities as Madame ...
By Charlotte Hope Lifestyle Editor @TLE_Lifestyle We all want the perfect wingman, well apart from me, as I'm a woman (obvs) that would just be a date surely? But for the single man, recent research has revealed what makes the perfect partner to pull the ladies. They found the perfect "wingman" is ...
By J T Coombes www.globalmagnacarta.com @GMagnaCarta In this new millennium 21st century Society is saddled with systems way past their sell by date. . . . A 15th century democratic system, complete with glass ceiling . . . An 11th century monetary system that increasingly holds the world to ransom ...