Being a non-corporeal entity TheEye usually laughs in the face of challengers. This eye-related story, however, oversteps the mark. From the never-to-be-ignored Austrian Times: Kung Fu eyeballs a sight to see. “A Chinese man claims to have the toughest eyeballs in the world after finding he could pour sand on […]

It’s not a regular day when two icons find their way into the obituary columns with a depressing suddeness. A tribute to the marvelous Sir Dai “Lock Up Your Daughters” Llewellyn, Bt will follow. So much of his outrageous life will be told in legend for decades to come. However […]

Some ideas that were widely held 100 or 200 years ago now seem shocking or barbaric today. Often we congratulate ourselves for thinking that we are so much more enlightened than our parents. But it seems unlikely that we’ve somehow reached the end of this process: I would guess that […]

St Crispin and TheEye will be getting together for a few ceremonial pink gins and an exchange of gripping yarns in Gibraltar between the 22nd and 25th of January. We don’t get together as often as we’d like, so the beerage intake opportunity will not be wasted. Any fellow bloggers, […]

The Animal ‘Rights’ nutcases have been active in Europe for a while but not quite to the fruitcake level seen in the US. The Sinn Fein to their I.R.A. is PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals). They’ve just launched their most nutty campaign yet: demanding fish be renamed […]

Some readers of TheEye and St Crispin reside in Gibraltar, and they will be snoozing this morning. Or down the pub early. Maybe both. Why? Because a few years ago Gib took the EU to court in a battle to maintain the right of the Gibraltar Parliament to set its […]

It takes a lot to shock TheEye, but occasionally a state of gibbering apoplexy can be induced. The example-du-jour comes courtesy of Bristol County Council via Bristol Dave (a sweary blog so a health warning for tender souls). TheEye can’t better the prose, so is going to reproduce it in […]

In Tales-Of-The-Blindingly-Obvious type news, readers will be unsurprised to discover that Scotland is poised to become the third most state-dependent country in the world, with only Cuba and Iraq spending more on public services. By 2012, public spending is expected to rise to 67 per cent of Scotland’s gross domestic […]

Cadbury, Britain’s most famous chocolate maker, has decided to warn chocolate lovers that its product contains: milk. The latest Dairy Milk wrappers feature a logo showing a glass and a half of milk being poured into a chocolate chunk, put milk first in a list of ingredients and explains that […]

TheEye isn’t really given to posts like this, but St Crispin regularly breaks bread and sups ale with the London Assembly Member for Bexley and Bromley, and TheEye is a big fan. It therefore seems churlish not to break with tradition and say something nice about someone on here for […]