Happy 85th birthday, Your Majesty; and may you have many more. …..plus as a side-benefit it also keeps the jug-eared plant talking mad-as-a-box-of-frogs eco-nutter out of the Big Chair.

Legal action o’ the day (from the WSJ): John B____ v. Vasamth Bethala, Manager; LQ12 LLC dba LaQuinta Inn & Suites; James River Ins. Co., No. 2011-12066 F (22d Dist. Jud. Ct. La., filed Apr. 7, 2011). Negligence action. While the plaintiff was staying on the third floor of the […]

Get ready for a performance fit for a king….and 20,000 other bloody awful puns. The limited-edition beverage has been rustled up using ‘various well-known aphrodisiacs’, according to its manufacturer. These include chocolate, horny goat weed and ‘a healthy dose of sarcasm’ in addition to the famous blue pills. Drinking three […]

Here’s a video by JoeDanMedia which has been pulled by YouTube twice already…apparently it’s a bit upsetting to the Religion of Peace. So here it is in a third YouTube incarnation (might as well use their bandwidth, not mine) but backed up here on EyeTube for when it gets knocked […]

Daftness from TheLocal as we find that people are doing what people always do with office furniture – except now with stopwatches. The newspaper even files it under their “Sports” section which seems unnecessarily like taking the piss. Luxembourger Pierre Feller beat out the homegrown talent to win the downhill […]

Question Time tonight comes from that famous bastion of middle-of-the-road politics…Liverpool. On the panel tonight we have Baron and part time vampire Michael Howard, adulterer, windmill fanatic and expenses fiddler* Chris Huhne, Pantone #1235 (Saffron) coloured bank robber Peter Hain, Alex Wee Eck Salmond and former New Statesman deputy editor Cristina Odone. […]

For non-Spanish speakers, ¿qué pasa? is roughly “how’s it going?” or “what’s up?”. Which about sums up where this post is headed. Always-interesting commenter ‘thespecialone‘ left a reply on the previous thread about visits to the Rock in years gone past which got TheEye a’thinkin’. There are thousands of photographs of everywhere that […]

Considering the depleted state of the Armed Forces these days, Gibraltar is currently the busiest we’ve been for ages hosting Royal Navy ships. In fact this year has seen more naval activity so far than in the whole of 2010. The US nuclear submarine Florida (pictured right against the South […]

This year so far has seen more naval activities than in the whole of 2010, with the first half of this week seeing an exceptional number of movements. The US nuclear submarine Florida left yesterday after a weekend visit to Gibraltar, but it had already been replaced at the South […]