The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a US-taxpayer funded organisation (to the tune of 20% of its annual operating revenue from Federal sources and 25% to 29% from State and local taxes), is required by charter to have a “strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series […]

As a connesewer of the occasional Cohiba, TheEye is indifferent to the fact that tomorrow is World No Tobacco Day. Begun in 1987 it has been marked by apathy, disinterest and lots of taxpayers’ money ever since. This year’s theme is the catchy and memorable Gender and tobacco with an […]

Expansive tipping of the trilby to Mr Eugenides

‘I don’t want to be a member of the House of Lords. I will not accept it,’ John  Prescott, 2009 It reads like Wilson’s Lavender list – a shameful compilation of has-beens, never-will-be’s and frankly disturbing toadys. This is the list of people that the One Eyed SnotGobbler thinks make a worthwhile addition […]

Some families just can’t take a hint. In 1988, three IRA terrorists came here to Gibraltar with the aim of murdering members of a military band at the weekly Changing of the Guard ceremony at the Governor’s Residence. And the civilian bystanders, locals and tourists who were watching the band […]

Why is it that some of the oddest and most stupid ideas come from the side of the political aisle which is supposed to defend liberties and freedom? Name five things in your life, the challenge goes, which aren’t in some way taxed or regulated? You can’t. And the first […]

Question Time tonight comes from Gravesend in Kent, famous mostly for the world’s oldest surviving cast iron pier and being the town where Pocahontas died. The seat of Gravesend is held for the Conservatives by former SAS Captain Adam Holloway. On the panel we have former Welsh Secretary John Redwood, […]

Made TheEye chuckle… Hat-tip to @MarthaKearney

To be filed under Things TheEye Wanted To Go To….this Thursday and Friday the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS) are returning to Dunkirk to mark the 70th anniversary of Operation Dynamo. 54 ADLS Little Ships are taking part in the event, with HMS Monmouth (Type 23 Duke Class Frigate) […]