Spooky Tales

May 10, 2011 at 5:23 pm

TheEye – cursed with 24 hours of spirit-crushing nonsense, can only offer a ridiculous post today. In contrast to a spectacular charge when co-conspirator and all round top bloke Max Farquar got 130,000 hits in a single day, TheEye has been dealing with local government bureaucracy and pencil-pushers with repressed […]

Osama – The “Real” Story

May 8, 2011 at 8:03 pm

For our overseas readers who don’t know, the Sunday Sport is the lowest of the low when it comes to newspapers. The most embarrassing of UK tabloid rubbish. It makes the National Enquirer in the US look professional. Relaunched today and don’t you wish it hadn’t been. So, in keeping […]

Spot The Difference

May 8, 2011 at 7:53 pm

Intrepid global scoop-seeker microdave has been in bloodhound mode today. Seeking out the hottest news on the stands. And today it is….the relaunched Sunday Sport. We’ve documented microdave’s dash between petrol stations for a copy and we’ve been spellbound during his between-meals search for truth. Awesome stuff. And here it […]

Of Referenda and Independence

May 8, 2011 at 1:25 am

TheEye has threatened promised a very occasional series of old pictures from my home of Gibraltar. The first showed searchlights over the Rock in 1940, and here’s the next installment from the archives. Inspired by Subrosa’s very successful first LiveChat which saw the SNP sweep to power in Scotland on […]

With Us Or Against Us

May 8, 2011 at 12:23 am

From IHateTheMedia: When George Bush said, “You’re either with us or you’re against us,” he knew exactly what he was talking about. Here’s how two Melbourne, Australia newspapers headlined the Bin Laden assassination in side-by-side street racks. What have Osama bin Laden and Maddie got in common? Both had their […]

In All Good Newsagents…

May 7, 2011 at 11:47 pm

Today sees the return of the much-missed Sunday Sport…following a deal with its founder David Sullivan. According to Popbitch, it’s going to be a classic: The Sunday Sport is back this weekend. They say you can expect to see “a topless 51-stone woman who yearns to be 60-stone, a Royal porn […]

How Many Years Make A “Tradition”?

May 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm

…so how many years makes for a “tradition”? With the BBC; not so many when it suits them. Number 10 shuns EU flag tradition Downing Street will not fly the EU flag over Number 10 during Europe Day on Monday unlike previous years, the BBC has learned. The Royal Wedding…traditional. Morris […]

Bye Bye to Yes

May 7, 2011 at 4:55 pm

There are plenty of websites dedicated to crowing over the victory of the NO campaign in the AV referendum…and many YES sites still crying into their FairTrade lattes. As a tech, though, TheEye is simply going to make a tech point. Bye bye yestofairervotes.org without even a final concession post. […]

QT and Elections LiveChat (Pt1)

May 5, 2011 at 6:48 pm

Welcome to the LiveChat which is a 5th May Election Special. We kick off with the return of Question Time; which tonight comes from the last BBC option “damn I can’t claim decent expenses from here” of London. On the panel we have Secretary of State for Transport and Conservative dark horse […]

QT and Elections LiveChat (Pt2)

May 5, 2011 at 6:47 pm

This post has been split so that if you want to follow both LiveChats at the same time you can easily open the two posts in two different windows and put them alongside each other. Cunning thinking, eh? This Scottish-oriented Chat is being hosted and moderated by Subrosa although you […]