In a mind-numbing splurge of stupidity, Gordon Brown has apparently created something called a “Seaside Tsar” three days before an election. Duncan Bannatyne appears on television’s Dragon’s Den, which apparently is a capitalist version of Professor Heinz Wolff‘s classic show The Great Egg Race, and he’s been promised the new […]

So the Foreign Office have published a list of how to avoid going to jail if you travel to Dubai. The unspoken implication, of course, is that they are a horrendously bigotted bunch of fruitcakes who are oppressing innocent and harmless tourists (go to any bar in Benidorm to see […]

Never accuse TheEye of not feeding your need for brains. Friends will know that TheEye is a big fan of the zombie movie genre (not just the one in the image here), and so was delighted to discover that: May is the official Zombie Awareness Month of the Zombie Research […]

In a recent poll, Virgin Media subscribers were asked who they would like to see as Prime Minister … chosen from characters who appear on the Idiot Box. And yes indeed, it is Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes anti-hero cop Detective Chief Inspector Gene Hunt – played by […]

Compare and contrast from today’s Daily Mail. Racism (which it isn’tas it refers to MPs) Not Racist or Religiously Motivated Go figure. For putting together the head-thumping-on-table contrast, thank the excellent 13th Spitfire.

Now apparently even clean air causes global warming. Originally from an Op-Ed in the LA Times we read about…. As much of the world marked Earth Day this past week, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that air pollution has declined dramatically over the past 20 years. It sounds like good […]

In the words of Earl Warren – “I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people’s accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man’s failures.” And so it is that Afghanistan make their big-screen debut at cricket’s ICC World Twenty20 tournament in about half an hour […]

Question Time this week comes Birmingham and will be, after a delay for the 10 O’Clock News, broadcast straight after the BBC’s stab at the 3rd Leaders’ Debate. It will be broadcast live so that both the audience and panel are able to comment on it. On the panel tonight […]

Tonight will be a live-blogging double-bill, starting with the second Leaders’ Debate and rounding off with Question Time and This Week. The Leaders’ Debate is a joint LiveBlog collaboration with a host of other splendid blogs; on Biased-BBC, All Seeing Eye, Barking Spider, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, Governmentitus, GrumpyOldTwat, Man […]

Amidst all of the uproar about Arizona implementing a law to make it illegal to be illegal, it seems that border control is done differently in other countries. Hamas is claiming Egypt pumped poison gas into an underground tunnel between Egypt and Gaza, killing four Palestinians. These are the tunnels, […]