No-one seemed sure. Was he being kept on because he had uncharted talents? Did he have something on somebody to avoid the sack? Was he still in place because he was telling the truth about how poor and put-upon our MPs really are? Well the answer is now out in the […]

Following on from the rather worrying news that Google/Blogger had caved in and released the name of a blogger to the woman she had made unpleasant comments about, there are other signs of people using the legal precedent and following suit. The Houston Chronicle may not be on your daily […]

If you read The Sun you’ll believe that the web is crawling with dodgy characters and every mouse-click brings your daughter closer to a horrible fate at the hands of a 40-something tattooed truck driver from Idaho called Zac. Paranoia swiftly leads to market forces and in turn mean buying a […]

From the Lost Property Dept of the Austrian Times we receive a note asking us to be on the look out for a 1100lb cannon which until yesterday was part of a “Napoleon Festival”. “The weapon – worth 5,000 Euros say police – was taken from a site commemorating a farmers’ insurrection […]

…or not, as in this case. Once again when the strangeness of the Islamic judicial system is exposed to the cold light of day we find some interesting changes of mind. Lubna al-Hussein was put on trial for wearing clothing deemed indecent by Sudanese authorities was fined Monday, but will […]

If you want a job doing properly, do it yourself. The Met Office have been notoriously bad, predicting recently the non-existent “BBQ Sunmer”, but you have to forgive them because they are working with a computer programmed with data pre-designed to anticipate that we’ll be living on the surface of the Sun by […]

Many readers here will know that TheEye is an assistant moderator for Biased BBC‘s weekly liveblogging foray into Question Time, supporting the unstoppable David Vance. We are out of hunting season at the moment but will return alongside the programme shortly….with an interesting guest lined up in October. Nick Griffin […]

The wife of Japan’s next prime minister claims to have clocked up a diplomatic first by visiting Venus. Miyuki Hatoyama, who’s hitched to Yukio Hatoyama, wrote last year in a book not unreasonably entitled Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered: “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on […]

Typical, isn’t it? Create a world-spanning organisation to keep the peace and put yourself, along with the rest of the group who won the last local disturbance, in charge. Next thing you know it’s being run by a terrorist loon who wants to abolish Switzerland. If that wasn’t bad enough, […]

From the Pointless Trivial News deptartment today, a man who said his cat had eaten most of a 500-euro note has been refused a replacement by the German Bundesbank. The administrative court in Frankfurt upheld the federal bank’s refusal to replace the note, after the man failed to provide enough evidence to back […]