Gibraltar news today, so this is one for our local readers; but of a serious nature. Justice Minister Daniel Feetham was stabbed in the back yesterday in an “unprovoked” attack in broad daylight in front of his children. He’s in a serious but stable condition in St Bernard’s Hospital and his […]

Tonight we’ll be live-blogging the US mid-term elections. The BBC and the left-leaning media are already trotting out the excuses, the blame game is beginning and the spinning on all sides has been going for days. But the polls are only just closing and careers can still be won and […]

Voters in the UK are genetically programmed to hate party political broadcasts, but over here they aren’t ever as effective and striking as this….

We should all doff our hats to this effort which should have become Washington state’s ballot measure #1069 today: Full text here. Sadly, it doesn’t appear on the ballot today: According to state officials, no petitions were filed in an effort to qualify the measure for the ballot. Shame. It’d work […]

At school, as part of your usual propaganda, you were doubtless taught that Red Indians could find dozens of uses for every part of a bison; nothing was wasted, they were the first Greens…yadda…yadda…yadda. Well that’s just not true. It’s taken capitalism and modern technology to reach that stage; and […]

Today is, apparently, World Vegan Day. You know where you can stick that idea. The weather is still good enough here for a barbecue tonight.

Speechless. TheEye is speechless. Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser who was sacked by the government in October 2009. It ranks 20 drugs on […]

There are some unusual daily reads on TheEye’s list, and ArabNews is one of them. Which is how we learn that: Saudi Arabia’s top government-sanctioned board of senior Islamic scholars has endorsed a fatwa that calls for a ban on female vendors because it violates the kingdom’s strict segregation of […]

As usual the White House threw a Halloween Party this year. They wouldn’t have been expecting one of the children to dress up as the Obama Joker! Incidentally, once again we seen that black face paint is somehow wrong but white face paint is fine. How on earth did he […]

In Sweden rather than here, but maybe the idea will catch on…. A special police unit in Stockholm combating share scams was closed last week by the chief safety ombudsman due to a large influx of cases.Four Stockholm county police officers are working on five large investigations involving nearly 2,000 […]