Today the official website for the opposition to the Cameron and Clegg hastily knocked together compromise on changes to the voting system has gone live. In what has got to be the most surreal referendum ever, two parties who don’t want the Alternative Vote because one wants the status quo […]

Faintly amusing schoolboy-humour stuff from the BBC via Guido…made more amusing because TheEye hasn’t subsidised it via a telly tax.

Question Time tonight comes from Liverpool, home to the United Kingdom’s first council house and the first Juvenile Court. This may not be a coincidence. Controlled by Labour and without any Tory representation, Liverpool City Council was rated in 2008 as the worst-performing council in the country. This may also […]

For the benefit of newsreader Naomi Lloyd who breathlessly announced the discovery of a dead polar bear washed up in Cornwall…

It’s looking bleak in Britainistan, where you don’t have to burn a Koran to get thrown in jail, you just have to watch someone else doing it: In a disturbing development, Northumbria Police in Gateshead last week arrested two men after they watched and shared a video on Facebook of […]

In random fuckwittery we find that it doesn’t matter if your undergraduate experience consists of three years face down in a pool of vomit outside a nightclub hundreds of miles from your gloriously unaware parents – you’re still entitled to a top degree. Cos it’s yer Yuman Right, innit?Apparently: A […]

Is there no end to the psychological warfare of the eco-zealots? This gizmo is supposed to teach children about that to save polar bears you must wash your hands in goldfish waste. Or something. Well here’s a clever way to encourage people to conserve water while they’re washing their hands. […]

In the news in the US at the moment; the Delaware Republican candidate for Senate, Christine O’Donnell, has come under fire for “dabbling” in witchcraft when she was at High School. Youthful ‘dabbling’ hasn’t been a barrier to the careers of other US politicians though: Hat-tip to Doug Powers and […]

Struggling to find a present for the Muslim who has everything? Here’s a handy Christmas idea. Really handy if they are visiting New York and the Ground Zero Victory Mosque hasn’t been finished off yet…they can pray with a Porto-Mosque: For Muslims too busy with work to attend Friday prayers […]

It’s sort of Catholicism meets the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Guy Consolmagno, curator of the Pope’s meteorite collection (eh?) and a trained astronomer and planetary scientist, says in the Guardian that he would be ‘delighted’ if intelligent life was found among the stars. ‘But the odds of us […]