For any self-respecting wino - if ever there was a conflicting term - branded wine is an anathema. Call them what you like - bum wines, street wines, twist-cap wines, beverages for the economical drunkard - British supermarkets are littered with sugary bottles of plonk masquerading as wine. To the ...
Sport News 24/7 By Richard & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport @rgdewinter @davidjdewinter The London Economic Sports Editor David de Winter and TLE Sports Columnist Richard de Winter discuss all things EURO 2016.
Activist investors are relatively new but very influential players in international capital markets. They are shareholders at publicly traded companies who attempt to affect change in an organization either by directly appealing to, or putting heavy pressure on, the company’s board of directors, bypassing the normal advisory process. The scope of ...
A floating wine bar pop-up has arrived in Clapham this week with a blend your own wine masterclass. Winemakers Campo Viejo opened the bar on Mount Lake which will run from 9-12 June. They will be serving their classic Tempranillo and Reserva along with a new White Rioja and a selection of tapas. Entrance ...
By Ben Gelblum, Contributing Editor @BenGelblum To paraphrase France’s greatest export (apart from Stella Artois) Jean Paul Sartre: “all human endeavours are doomed to failure.” Tony Blair and John Major join the EU Referendum fray today with even more nightmarish complications for those hoping for a quick and easy Brexit ...
Our MPs have just finished their inquiry into flooding and concluded that a “proactive approach to flooding is needed”. The report published this morning by the Environmental Audit Committee exposed the Government’s knee-jerk reaction to flooding. During the last Parliament funding was cut just before floods, only to be "increased" after the ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The factory where Trident nuclear warheads are built has seen construction disruption due to protests by anti-war protestors. The blockade at the Berkshire site has been organised by an international group of anti-war protestors. On Wednesday the group claimed that they had brought a halt ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Distressingly the world is now a more dangerous place, astoundingly there are now only ten nations that can be considered totally free from any form of conflict. Most of this small countries have relatively small populations. This shocking statistic was reported by the authors of ...
Sport News 24/7 By Rob McHugh @mchughr @TLE_Sport As the old sporting cliché goes; form is temporary, but class is permanent. English cricket has the ultimate proof of this saying in their team currently, with Stuart Broad and James Anderson going into the final match of the Test series against ...