By Florence Sarlat www.veganfashionventure.com For ages, fur and silk have embodied worth and luxury in fashion. They are beautiful and expensive materials that not everyone can afford. The rarer their origins are, the more sought-after they are considered to be. A wool coat is nothing compared to a mink coat. ...
Forget adult-colouring and yoga, trainspotting has now been heralded as a mindfulness technique to promote wellbeing. With the trend for health and wellness on the rise, many people are on the lookout for activities and hobbies to enrich their lives and positively affect their wellbeing. And surprisingly enough, the once ...
The 'short term loan' is amongst the most slandered terms in the financial world, but there is no doubting that responsible lenders have an important role to play in the credit market. New research has revealed the importance of borrowing from an accredited lender when it comes to short-term credit, with a third ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It looks like the Chancellor’s much heralded “Northern Powerhouse,” is not quite going according to plan, which may come as not much of a surprise to people living there. Osborne will be saddened to hear that more start-ups were launched in a single London postcode ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Leading barrister Michael Bowsher says the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) does allow for private US firms to snap up NHS contracts. The legal analysis has also revealed that the controversial TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) deal would mean NHS privatisation maybe irreversible ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Mandy Boycott a UKIP campaigner, and one-time prospective parliamentary MP, has made a pretty special parody version of Baddiel and Skinner's Three Lions. It has to be seen to be believed. The singing is terrible, the lyrics are terrible, you guessed it...it is TERRIBLE. Our ...
By Mathew Shaw The sport of boxing is known as the ‘noble art’ and has long seduced some of modern time’s greatest writers and philosophical thinkers - Ernest Hemingway, TS Eliot and Norman Mailer, to name but a few. The sport’s ethos and pathos seemingly providing the perfect metaphors for ...
By Nicky Goulder, co-founder and Chief Executive of Create The official figures from the latest Census show that there are 400 identified children who are providing unpaid care in the London borough of Westminster. These children are known as ‘young carers’, defined by the Carers Trust as ‘children who often ...
By Ben Ramanauskas In 1944, when continental Europe was on the verge of being liberated from fascism and while much of the world suffered under the oppressive yoke of communism, the Austrian economist F.A Hayek published The Road to Serfdom. Hayek argued that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism ...