It’s not a well known fact but Spanish naval vessels are designed with glass bottoms so that their new navy can see their old navy. Elsewhere, in parochial but marginally interesting news for political junkies, the rightist Spanish opposition party Partido Popular has just opened a fully fledged branch of […]

There is, according to scientists paid simply to churn out random made-up statistics for publication in journals read only by other scientists – who then steal and recycle the bogus figures to inflate their own nonsense – a theory that our galaxy may contain as many as 38,000 intelligent civilisations. […]

TheEye is a former cricketer (to a limited standard) and remains an ongoing armchair fan of the great game. Middlesex won the 2008 20/20 slogathon at the Rosebowl – home of TheEye’s former team – but unfortunately they did it under a name which some people who are sworn under […]

TheEye saw these over on Dizzy and, being a bit of a geek personally, I felt the need to share them.

Coming into law on the 16th of February, the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008 makes it an offence to take a photograph of a policeman. Or of St Crispin. Yes, any member of the Police Force or the Armed Forces won’t be able to have their photograph taken at a family birthday […]

TheEye hates passing on second-hand work, and therefore detests doing it for two posts in a row. However sometimes it is necessary. Always have The Lone Voice on your blogroll. He’s got a bit of a thing going about the awful JD Wetherspoon and by all accounts it’s thoroughly well […]

Never dispense with a daily check of The Croydonian, and this post particularly appeals to our blog which has a proud military slant. The Union Flag should never be improperly flown. Not just on a Destroyer, not on a tank, not on the 11th Hour – not at any time. […]

You’ve got to love this story…there’s a global financial disaster going on, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane damage, a budget deficit – the list is huge – but there is a bigger crisis lurking beneath our radar. Far more worrying. Yes, the State Legislature for Texas is going to […]

Due to being slightly nervous that St Crispin, who has fired a substantial gun or two in his time – and still does – might have lost the plot with his post below (personally TheEye hates dreams involving gun rampages because you always wake up before you kill the last […]

Once a player at a reasonable level and as an ongoing keen follower of cricket, TheEye was shocked and stunned to hear today of the death of Bearders. The Bearded Wonder, as he was known, was the number-cruncher extraordinaire. The statisticians statistician. Bill Frindall died aged 69 after contracting Legionnaire’s […]