2nd Leaders’ Debate Liveblogging

April 22, 2010 at 5:16 pm

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; here on All Seeing Eye, and on Barking Spider, Biased-BBC, Corrugated Soundbite, Dick Puddlecote, […]

Panic Over. Doormen Not On Strike

April 22, 2010 at 12:32 am

Once again, it seems, the Socialist Menace has been averted. Militant trade union activists have pulled back from the brink of causing social chaos and anarchy on the streets. For the Great New York Doorman Strike of 2010 has been called off. Under the marvellous headline “Deal Reached That Averts […]

How Gay Is Gay Enough?

April 21, 2010 at 8:37 pm

There are times when you just need to pause, take a deep breath, and ask yourself: “What would Iain Dale do?”. We see that: Three bisexual men filed a lawsuit in Seattle, Washington against the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA) claiming they were discriminated against for not being […]

Leaders’ Debate and QT Liveblogging Thur 22nd

April 20, 2010 at 7:29 pm

This Thursday evening brings a double-bill of liveblogging….  “You lucky people”, as Tommy Trinder used to say. First up at 8.00pm we will be live blogging the 2nd Live Leaders’ Debate which is being broadcast on Sky News between 8.00pm and 9.30pm. Rather like the Budget chat this promises to […]

Boris Lashes Cleggover

April 19, 2010 at 6:27 pm

Boris Johnson is on superb form in the Telegraph today: “What crouton of substance did Clegg offer last Thursday, in the opaque minestrone of waffle? He wants to get rid of Trident. Great! So Lib Dem foreign policy means voluntarily resigning from the UN Security Council, abandoning all pretensions to […]

NASA News

April 19, 2010 at 2:19 am

Taking a break from political goings-on, some Space Shuttle-related news…. This morning (Monday) the shuttle Discovery will land at Kennedy Space Center at 8:48 EDT (1248 GMT). The craft will make a rare “descending node” overflight of the continental US en route to landing in Florida. Here are maps of […]

Lord Monckton At The Tea Party Rally

April 19, 2010 at 1:24 am

Global Warming Swindle debunker Lord Christopher Monckton has offered the US a rather promising deal – if they resubmit to British rule and accept the tea tax, he’ll take away ObamaCare… He has given an excellent speech to the Tax Day Tea Party in DC. Enjoy… The formidable Michele Bachmann […]

Hangman Wanted, Training Given

April 16, 2010 at 9:00 pm

This seems to be an interesting job opportunity. TheEye applied (this is true), almost two decades ago, for a vacancy as an executioner in the Caribbean (lots of sun, short hours, rum). Not sure Rhodesia is quite so appealing as a destination though. A backlog of prisoners waiting for execution […]

More ID Cards By The Back Door

April 16, 2010 at 6:19 pm

Seen over on DefenceManagement.com: Labour to create Veterans ID card The Labour Party have pledged to provide free ID cards for forces’ leavers if re-elected to government. “A veterans ID card will help veterans access their improved benefits and will be free to service leavers,” says the manifesto. “We will […]

Devon PPCs Clash Over Trident

April 16, 2010 at 4:24 pm

From the BBC we see that the LibDems are trying to carve out a political niche over the future of our nuclear deterrent. Or a clear yellow streak of water, you might say. Devon MPs have clashed over the future of the UK’s Trident nuclear submarines which are refitted at […]