What do you make of the news that a police chief criticised by a judge for failing to attend a 999 call said today police could not attend every emergency call – and most people did not expect them to.  Julie Spence, Chief Constable of Cambridgeshire Police, said Judge Sean […]

The All Seeing Eye will be away from these parts for the best part of the next week so I am afraid you will have to endure my musings in the interim! Did you see that modern progressive Germany is….erm…..reprinting Mein Kampf? Under the post-1945 German constitution, the dissemination of […]

I was listening to the Andrew Marr show on the BBC this morning, by way of light entertainment. I was trying to guess how many lines of attack Marr would open up on Conservative leader David Cameron and was not in the least surprised at the endless verbal assaults that […]

You have to laugh. The tiny Pacific island state of Tuvalu has said it wants all its energy to comefrom renewable sources by 2020. Public Utilities Minister Kausea Natano said hisnation of 12,000 people wanted to set an example to others. Tuvalu is madeup of a string of atolls with […]

I notice that over at Old Holborn there are some curious statistics concerning those parts of the UK where swine flu appears to be all the rage. Sadly these seem to coincide with areas with a predominant Muslim populations. I think we may be encountering the first ever racist virus […]

I touched on this story the other day but didn’t realise that it was an American company’s premises that French workers were threatening to blow up IF they didn’t get better redundancy terms. I’ve heard of a Glasgow kiss as an act of brutality but now it looks like la […]

Did you see that the Parliament in Iceland has voted by a narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union, after five days of gruelling debate? Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir of the Social Democrats has also been pushing for the adoption of the euro as […]

I know it is wrong but I had to raise a smile at the news that Cherie Blair has been diagnosed with suspected swine flu. The former Prime Minister’s wife has had to cancel a host of public engagements because of the illness. Mrs Blair started to feel unwell at […]

As you know, I have been doing my best to keep the All Seeing Eye warm and cosy whilst The Eye himself is recuperating! Got good news today – he’s on the mend and may be able to blog here again soon. No pressure on him – we will all […]

I am sure that were The Eye here he would want to pay tribute to those fallen heroes whose bodies have just been returned to the UK. It’s heart-breaking for the families and indeed for all of the rest of us who have such pride and respect for our armed […]