Dan Hannan MEP; one of the last bastions of common sense in the EU Parliament isn’t happy (and why would anyone be) with the blatant throwing of taxpayers’ money at propaganda to influence…taxpayers.

Question Time tonight comes from Eastbourne, which boasts of being the sunniest place in Britain based only on a freak statistic from 1911 and is the location of the third most popular suicide spot in the UK. The ashes of Frederick Engels were scattered there upon his death. Marvellous. On […]

In case you’re in the office today and the person sitting next to you – that one with the really irritating habits – is pushing you just that little too far today…you’re not alone. From the previous week alone we’ve got a splendid roundup of people randomly snapping: Police in […]

It’s a period of lazy-ish blogging, possibly, but TheEye is finally catching up with stuff….just in time for a week-long training course starting in a few hours. Sigh. There is no mercy, it seems. At least, as bad as this week promises to be, it’s not as bad as that […]

From This is Gloucestershire last month…..the printed version has a great headline on a story about girls’ schools. Unfortunately it’s no longer on the web version, but the dead tree copy survives to give us a laugh…

Outrageous headlinery from the indispensable Islington Gazette.

Question Time tonight comes from Edinburgh. On the panel  we have Leader of the Scottish Conservatives Annabel Goldie MSP, SecofState for Scotland and LibDem Michael Moore MP, Labour’s Wee Dougie Alexander MP, Green Party MSP and painfully right-on Patrick Harvie, and the SNPs Nicola Sturgeon MSP. Londoner Nick Ferrari is the final panelist […]

Last weekend saw even more violence than usual at the Old Firm football clash north of the Border. And Strathclyde Police, as usual, took this as a golden opportunity to plaster their ugly mugs all over the television calling for everything from calm and peace to a restocking of plastic […]

A clue: wait until your haircut is finished: A New Haven, Conn., man is in the hospital and due in court later this month after police said he stabbed someone while getting his hair cut in Stamford.David Davis, 21 of New Haven, was sitting inside an apartment on Henry Street […]

And there we go. As if there was any doubt. Democracy, eh?