On 21st October 1805 the Royal Navy, commanded by Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson won a famous and decisive victory over the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar (for an excellent overview try here.) Trafalgar Day, for the benefit of TheEye’s overseas readers, is the annual celebration and […]

Question Time tonight comes from Glasgow. David Dimbleby is joined by Jacob Rees-Mogg, a rebellious Conservative with absolutely no connection to Glasgow at all, LibDem MP Alistair Carmichael (who dropped out of Glasgow Uni so a tenuous connection at least), local Labour MP Margaret Curran, the SNPs Education Minister Mike Russell, […]

TheEye is back in the office, the sun is in the sky and inevitably a man’s thoughts turn to…the legality of skydiving sex. Indeed. Local police in Taft, California. were called to a local high school last week after a video started doing the rounds, so to speak, on campus. […]

Cross-Posted from the Biased-BBC blog Many of us watched the Question Time Special immediately following the 9/11 atrocity in utter disbelief as it took a rabid and disgusting anti-American line. The former US ambassador to Britain, Philip Lader, was almost reduced to tears on the panel as the audience shouted […]

With apologies, but this has got to be a contender for Weirdness of the Month: Four men from Bergholz, Ohio, were arrested this week suspected of an Amish beard-cutting attack. Authorities say a rival Amish group held their victims down against their will and gave them unwanted cuts to their […]

Question Time tonight comes from London and features a panel so dreadful it will make your eyes bleed. On the panel we have Andrew Lansley, Red Ken Livingstone, former chief press spokesman for the Liberals Mark Littlewood, NHS-focussed ‘comedian’ Phil Hammond and deputy editor of the Evening Standard Sarah Sands. […]

So after much ridicule of the daft, plain stupid and politically “correct” questions in the old Labour government’s so-called Citizenship Test….it has been re-written by the Coalition. Can we expect questions like “how much does the UK waste each year by belonging to the EU” or “name the religion responsible […]

First, kill a bear. A fortnight ago, Clyde Gardner was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for plotting to kill his ex-girlfriend after a friend he asked to do the job ratted him out to the police instead. The plan involved faking a car accident. So far, so […]

Brilliant journalism in yesterday’s Super Soaraway Sun. For a paper specialising in celebrity gossip you’d think that Not-A-Footballer Tries It On is really feeble. And who is Tom Cleverley anyway? Hat-tip: Matthew Moore

On the Question Time panel from where the Conservative conference was held – Salford – tonight we have the inclusivity box-ticking Baroness Warsi, Shadow Junior Minister for Drains Andy Burnham, Charles *hic* Kennedy, Hello! and Sun journalist Jane Moore and, returning to our BBC screens after an absence of at […]