Handmade Festival have announced the new line-up additions for the fourth edition of the Leicester-based festival. Joining the recently announced We Are Scientists and 65daysofstatic are Lonely The Brave, Los Campesinos! and Pretty Vicious. Following on from their biggest ever headline tour alongside Black Peaks, anthemic rock quintet Lonely The Brave ...
By Oliver Ward Last weekend’s gruelling late night talks concluded in La Bourget and Paris was finally able to celebrate something as COP21 talks resulted in an agreement signed by 195 nations. Politicians linked hands, people were hugging and standing on desks. Like a work Christmas party, all that was ...
By Professor Colin Garner, Chief Executive of Antibiotic Research UK, comments: Today, patients undergoing routine treatments such as cancer treatment, organ transplantation and hip and knee replacements, are given antibiotics to prevent infection during these treatments. However, the frequency of antibiotic resistant infections is increasing, meaning that there are more and ...
The government has been blamed for the rise of highly questionable pension schemes which have led to a £2 billion 'liberation scandal'. A nationwide campaign group says the government is “ultimately responsible” for the potential loss of billions of pounds of savers’ pensions by refusing to “fix a broken system” ...
By Leslie Byron Pitt @Afrofilmviewer It’s often said that you don’t watch porn for its plot. The same can certainly be said for Gaspar Noe’s indulgent Love. For all it’s on screen ejaculation and 3D Penises thrusting out at the audience, Noe cannot hide that this is a tediously overlong ...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Flat Iron, Burger & Lobster, Patty & Bun, Suvlaki, Chick ‘n’ Sours, Bao, Top Dog, and MEATliquor. These are just a few of the less than imaginatively titled restaurants to have opened in London over the past few years, leaving little to the imagination ...
Robert Dyas has taken the award for most cringeworthy marketing campaign of the festive season after releasing its ‘We’re gay. And straight. And bi…’ advertisement. The ad features staff members of varying sexual orientation promoting products under the strapline “Robert Dyas: where gays and straights can buy drills, and much, much more.” It is ...
George Clooney has pledged the first £5 to a campaign run by Scottish not-for-profit sandwich shop Social Bite to feed thousands of homeless people on Christmas Day and throughout 2016. The Hollywood actor recorded a video message on a staff member’s iPhone pledging the first £5 and encouraging others to do the same. ...
Thought the Maldives was all sun, sea and sand? Well it is - but there's also plenty more to it. A unique phenomenon, there's aspects of the Indian Ocean that many guide books, travel tales and Pinterest boards often miss out, from its official no-booze status to the icky truth ...