TheEye used to really respect Newt Gingrich. It was the 1994 Contract With America which won Congress back for the Republicans – with what was the closest thing to pass in dim light for a low-tax, small-government solution to the problems in the US. But in the last few weeks […]

You can be forgiven if El Boletín Oficial del Estado isn’t on your daily reading list. It is, in fact, the official publication of the Government of Spain so don’t bother with the link unless your Spanish is up to it. Suffice it to day that the Socialist government of […]

If there’s one thing sanctimonious eco-zealots will never run short of, it’s pernicious unintended consequences. From Israel: The Environmental Protection Ministry confirmed to The Jerusalem Post this week that it has launched an independent study of exposure to electromagnetic radiation from hybrid car batteries. There have been concerns raised both […]

We all know the joke: an immigrant makes it in to the UK and finds a magic lamp. As is the tradition with these things, a quick buffing gets him three wishes. He wishes for a million pounds, and behold, it is there for him. He wishes for perfect health, […]

Cops based near Oxford in the UK have revealed that they are unable to to use flashing blue lights on their new electric car – in case it drains too much power from the battery. The Thames Valley police force is testing out the £20,000 Mitsubishi iMiev in an effort […]

It seems that the Saudis are shocking the world again by being brutal to criminals: A Saudi court of cassation upheld a ruling to behead and crucify a 22-year-old man convicted of raping five children and leaving one of them to die in the desert, newspapers reported on Tuesday.The convict […]

As usual we will be shadowing Question Time over on Biased-BBC with a live-chat session tonight. Christopher Kelly has stirred the MPs expenses pot once more, David Cameron’s “cast iron guarantee” will surely come up, and of course this may be one of the last ever editions of Question Time […]

TheEye has always believed that this universal franchise thing is much overrated. Votes for women, eh? And bring back the property franchise. Democracy (from the Greek ‘demos‘ meaning ‘people‘ and ‘cracy‘ meaning ‘stupid‘) all started going downhill after the 1932 Reform Act, basically…. However things may be looking up overseas. […]

A once moderate Muslim who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists. According to Mohamed Omar, a 34-year-old author and commentator born in Uppsala in eastern Sweden, he is prepared to welcome all political stripes into […]

An entertaining post on the Dizzy’s blog this morning about the extinction of species has reminded TheEye of this clip of EarthFirst eco-nutjob hippies wailing and crying over trees. These people are so scarily retarded and dangerous that they shouldn’t be allowed to breed, but unfortunately most of them have […]