The IRA used bombs and bullets…but as far as TheEye is aware they didn’t ever get as inventive as ETA who planned to assassinate judges with poisoned decent French brandy. The leading antiterrorist judge Balthasar Garzon (pictured) was one of several intended targets in a plot foiled by authorities with […]

There was a horrible idea circulated last month by Quentin Letts (documented on this blog) that Jacqui Smith would be bought off by being offered the Governor’s chair in Gibraltar. It’s become habit that after a few military types then the Rock is due a failed politician to lurk in […]

This will be (almost certainly) the last comment on the EU elections – although the result in Northern Ireland may tempt TheEye out of that vow for one final snarl at the world. However this was spotted on Dizzy although hat-tips are doubtless deserved up the line (add to the […]

To the tune, obviously, of Days Army. This surfaced at the always entertaining Croydonian who found it here.Whatever your views on the results of the European elections this dodgy Photoshop effort has got to raise a smile from all fans of Captain Mainwaring.

It’s MEP election night and things aren’t looking good for some…better for others. Early scans show that Labour will be FIFTH in the SW and Gibraltar region – even behind the Cornish Nationalists. In other news, Nick Griffin looks like he has polled enough to become an MEP for the […]

Thoroughly deserved treatment, of a complete incompetent, by the veterans of WW2 and THAT grinning ninny seems to be completely oblivious. No change there then.After all, he seems to be oblivious to anything in the REAL world! Incidentally, I don’t recall seeing this clip being broadcast on the BBC. Mmmm, […]

Whilst it is disgraceful that Her Majesty was not invited to the commemorations in Normandy to honour the heroes of “Obama Beach”, it is interesting to note one fact-ette. The Queen is constantly being referred to as the only current head of state who was in uniform and served during […]

Forty years after D-Day The Gipper gave this speech on the Pointe du Hoc. ..your hopes are our hopes and your destiny is our destiny… …we were with you then, we are with you now… …your hopes are our hopes and your destiny is our destiny… …here in this place […]

Now most kids want to be something – fireman, doctor, MEP (ha!) or….secret agent. You’d imagine that the life expectancy (hey, how many 007’s have there been) would be short but this one made it to 92 and had the scars to prove it. Former CIA agent Bernard Leon Barker, […]

It may not have hit the mainstream news but you’ve got to chuckle that in St Ives Labour were beaten in the County Council elections by a candidate from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. He didn’t win, but Lord Toby Jug, Cambridgeshire’s first Loony candidate, was celebrating his best […]