2015 was a difficult year for HECK. Having cemented their reputation as Baby Godzilla since 2012, with a deserved notoriety for redefining the word havoc, out of nowhere came the news that the Japanese cinema giant were legally forcing them to change their name. Whilst this caused no end of ...
Callum Towler, Stephen Adams and Owen Black chat about the worrying rise of far-right politics following the Paris attacks. Should Donald Trump be banned from the UK? Do ISIS thank their lucky stars for characters like Farage and Le Pen? Is western liberalism dying in the face of terror? And ...
London Waterloo has been crowned the UK's busiest railway station once again after the latest figures from the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) revealed 99 million passengers passed through the station in the past year. Nine out of the top ten spots went to stations in London, with the top ...
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 ...