By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Hollywood star George Clooney arrived in Scotland today and visited a social enterprise sandwich shop that trains, employs and feeds local homeless people. Staff at Social Bite, which gives 100 per cent of its profits to charity, recruits a quarter of its staff from homeless backgrounds, and ...
Terence Davies (The House of Mirth, The Deep Blue Sea) has taken on the challenge of adapting Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic Scottish tale Sunset Song. But can model-actress slashie Agyness Deyn do Gibbon's heroine Chris Guthrie justice? Deyn was last seen in 2014's Electricity. Sunset Song will be released December ...
By Adam Turner I'm no philosopher, nor a doctor of psychology. In fact, I'm barely even f*cking literate. I'm just a young, naive lad from Middlesbrough with an opinion - and a deep, underlying bitterness for the modern world. So what right do I have to share my views on ...
By Ryan Carter @rwscarter There is a beautiful bottom-up revolution underway in the energy market, but like all revolutions there is hurdles the question is can the state facilitate the green revolution, I think it should. This requires putting into reverse how the state has been seen in market interventions ...
By Nicholas Figgis Attempts by government ministers and their friends in the press to use the Remembrance ceremony as a political tool reached farcical heights this weekend. The Telegraph called in the big guns, citing the opinion of etiquette expert, William Hanson, whose heavyweight contribution to world affairs includes advice ...
The pub scene is thriving in London right now, but with such a proliferation of new craft bars, gastro ventures and costly refurbishments, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Well, we’ve compiled a list of the top ten real ale pubs in London to help ...
24: The National Videogame Arcade (Wed 11th November 2015) Greetings, once again, dear word-absorber. What a busy week it is in Gameland. Last Thursday, I dashed over to Chris Slight’s house to record some videos with him for our podcast’s YouTube channel. Why a podcast needs a YouTube channel I ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter @rgdewinter @TLE_Sport On Thursday, TLE Sport will be attending the 17th annual Bobby Moore Fund Celebrity Sports Quiz, and, in order not to look too foolish, we have been revising furiously, poring over old Playfair annuals, memorising the Jack Charlton Soccer Quiz book, ...
This week warnings from climate change scientists this informed us that the world is halfway towards the threshold that could result in dangerous climate change, revealing that average global temperatures have recorded a rise of one degree Celsius for the first time. The met office informed us that record warm ...