You must have seen the quote “97% of experts support the anthropogenic global warming theory” quote in a thousand places – and that’s just on the BBC – but it’s interesting to finally discover how that figure was cooked. The number comes from a 2008 master’s thesis by student Maggie […]

Vanity Fair has just published an absolutely fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the unlikely and tempestuous working relationship between Wikileak’s Julian Assange and The Guardian. The timeline covers all of the events right from the start and it’s a must-read to fill in any details you might have missed or not […]

Right about now the England cricket team are setting about taking the last three Australian wickets before winning the first Ashes series Down Under since 1987. And what was No1 at the time? The incredibly appropriate Nothing’s Gonna To Stop Us Now… Well done to Straussy and the lads. Ashes […]

The most serious things are often said in jest. From a recent HBO special, this clip of Dennis Miller giving “The Big Speech” is very good…

TheEye is a big fan of Gerry Rafferty’s music, and it’s very sad to hear that he’s just died at the age of 63. But for those of us who have followed his career it’s not a huge surprise. Born into a working-class family at Paisley, he earned money busking […]

Thoroughly enjoyed this Daily Mail offering today: A vulture tagged by scientists at Tel Aviv University has strayed into Saudi Arabian territory, where it was promptly arrested on suspicion of being a Mossad spy, Israeli and Saudi media reported Tuesday. The bird was found in a rural area of the […]

After human traffickers took Chinese women to work in Africa as prostitutes, local and Chinese police mounted (is that the right word?) an operation to save them. But they don’t want to go home. Police from China flew to the Democratic Republic of Congo in November in the country’s first […]

Well there’s a surprise…the Sunday Express is apparently still in print. “Ringo Starr’s childhood home could be saved from the bulldozers, thanks to an obscure planning law. Planners at Liverpool City Council want to replace the buildings along Madryn Street with new housing, arguing that it would cost £150,000 to […]

Not three cheers, obviously, because they’re French. But one. Muffled. They’re learning slowly. In 2004 reporters Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot were kidnapped in Iraq. France paid $15 million dollars in ransom for their release. In 2005 Florence Aubenas, a reporter for the daily Libération was released after the French […]

In a splendidly retro way, TheEye has been tagged in a what-does-your-desk-look-like meme by Woman On A Raft. The path of tagging destruction wends its way back to Mordor via JuliaM; Grim Reaper and ManWiddecombe, Filthy Engineer and to the instigator, the unmissable Dick Puddlecote. Various others of the bloggers of Gondor have […]