Wonder what you make of the news that people in England may be forced to pay as much as £20,000 on retirement to help fund the social care system under plans being put forward by ministers? It is one of three options being proposed by the government alongsidetop-ups and insurance. […]

Let’s be honest – Islam and fashion do not go together! But where is the outraged voice of the Sisterhood? Cue silence…. A group of Sudanese women diners face up to 40 lashes – for wearingtrousers. The women have been accused of dressing ‘indecently’ while dining at a popular restaurant […]

The rancid media is full of sycophantic coverage of the Obama grand tour of Ghana. The people of Ghana love Obama and yet, when we look at it, their love extends into the most surprising areas; A Ghanaian woman has married her dog because it has qualities she had seen […]

I read that Osama bin Laden and the top Al-Qaeda leadership are not in Pakistan, making US missile attacks against them futile, according to the country’s interior minister. “If Osama was in Pakistan we would know, with all the thousands of troops we have sent into the tribal areas in […]

Oh no – it’s the end of British business as we know it. Consider this alarm from the people’s newspaper, The Guardian; Vital sections of society could be paralysed if swine flu reaches epidemic proportions as expected, the government has been warned. A Whitehall meeting of emergency services and business […]

Again, here on The Eye we often get to consider the really big issues that the rest of the blogosphere so cruelly ignore; Take this…. A pet rabbit has become so hooked on a late night soap she attacks her owners if they try to change the channel. The bunny […]

The media mantra is always the same – we are losing. They said it when our armed forces were in Iraq and now that the focus has shifted to Afghanistan the same repetitive dirge is being broadcast day in day out, with the BBC in lead role n this sirenb […]

It’s not a problem I would want to have, would you? A couple, Marc and Lisa Thompson, could be forced to move out oftheir home in Finstock, Oxfordshire, because of their new neighbours’ noisy lovemaking. The Thompsons say they have been woken repeatedly in the night since the amorous middle-aged […]

Did you read about the sex attacker who has claimed he could not be extradited because he was allergic to onions and would die if he eats them in prison food? Peter Ivan Dunne said the danger of a reaction – especially to red onions – meant his human rights […]

Just a quick invite to come over to Biased BBC tonight at 10.30pm GMT and join in the liveblog of Question Time. Geoff always enjoyed this and was a great help to me in moderating the event. After his accident, I stopped doing it as I was too worried about […]