As the economy descends ever further down the toilet, one has to marvel at the brazen contempt The One Eyed Son Of The Manse has for reality. At PMQ’s and endless speeches, in a nostalgic throwback to the Soviet era we are always reminded that tractor production is up for […]

Today is rightly a day of great celebration in Cambodia. The 7th January marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of Pol Pot and his murderous Khmer Rouge scum (’75-’79). May they all rot in hell after being left to soak in a bath full of candiru fish for a […]

TheEye confesses to be a big fan of the Vulcan bomber. The size, the noise and the sheer elegance of this British designed and built veteran of the Cold War is breathtaking. The delta-winged Avro Vulcan first flew in 1952 and the one remaining air-worthy example is XH558 “City of […]

It was rather ironic that TheEye said a few posts below that mainstream news stories are not the aim of this blog. This story falls strangely between the two stools. It’s going to become very mainstream but isn’t yet. Iain Dale, a man with some of the best political contacts […]

TheEye dislikes reproducing stories which have already begun to make their way around t’interweb but this one is almost too scary to be true and an exception must be made. The vastly expensive campaign has had this poster designed. The Lone Voice here observes:In a time of recession the government […]

Not exactly hot-off-the-press but in the first week of November, Melbourne, Australia hosted the 6th Annual Homeless World Cup, bringing homeless people from 56 countries for a 4-a-side street soccer tournament. Afghanistan ultimately prevailed 5-4 over Russia in the men’s final while Zambia won the inaugural women’s final 7-1. Newly […]

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille. Louis Braille was born in Coupvray, 25 miles outside of Paris. As a small boy he was blinded by an accident in his father’s workshop. He was inspired by the ‘night writing’ system of raised dots and dashes invented […]

Those of a certain age will remember The Bangles, an 80’s pop phemomenon/embarassment depending on your taste. Who could forget hit songs like “Manic Monday” (written by Prince, incidentally), “Walk Like An Egyptian” and “Eternal Flame”? After a fifteen-year pause, the original members Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, and Vicki Peterson […]

TheEye stands with our overseas friends. However a fisking is needed of this strange message from our Prime Mentalist. Courtesy of the undeniably excellent Falkland News (confess now, you read it every day don’t you) we find that the One Eyed Son Of The Manse has issued a New Year […]

Whilst in no way denegrating serious stories, TheEye delights in trivia and is pleased to note that the Gibraltar Football Association has been notified by its Swiss lawyers of a ruling of the Swiss Supreme Court on 22nd December which favoured GFA’s application for UEFA membership. This has been blocked […]