Question Time LiveBlog 17th February 2011

February 17, 2011 at 2:05 pm

Tonights Question Time comes from Barking and on the panel we have Michael Heseltine, the ex-St Vince Cable, Yvette Balls (nee Cooper), Nigel Farage and a book publisher called Victoria Barnsley. The LiveBlog will also cover the surreal This Week, with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo. David Vance, TheEye and David […]

Question Time LiveBlog 10th February 2011

February 10, 2011 at 2:32 pm

Tonight Question Time comes from Bristol, birthplace of failed singer Nik Kershaw, failed comedian Lee Evans and failed lesbian Julie Burchill. It was also the destination of the final Concorde flight. On the panel tonight we have the dripping wet Francis Maude MP, senile old fool Menzies Campbell MP, expenses […]

AllSeeingEye BlogMeet (Pt2)

February 9, 2011 at 7:18 pm

With apologies, but blogging here has been light this week as it’s the AllSeeingEye blogmeet. As has been traditional for half a decade now, this blogmeet happens on the bi-annual PWOC and/or SPAG courses in Gibraltar (Principal Warfare Officer Course / Submarine Parachute Assistance Group). This usually starts with AllSeeingEye […]

Question Time LiveBlog 3rd February 2011

February 3, 2011 at 8:40 pm

Tonight Question Time comes from Workington which has been a Labour stronghold since its creation in 1918 except for a short lived Tory by-election win in 1976. It is represented in the House of Commons by Labour career trade unionist Tony Cunningham. On the panel tonight we have Damian Green MP, Andy Burnham […]

AllSeeingEye BlogMeet

February 3, 2011 at 8:07 pm

That magnificent bi-annual event is almost upon us again…the AllSeeingEye blog run ashore in Gib. Next week my co-author here St Crispin will be out on the Rock. Some random throwing himself out of a Hercules will be involved during the daytime, but in the evenings the bars and beerhalls […]

Question Time LiveBlog 27th January 2011

January 27, 2011 at 6:30 pm

Tonight Question Time comes from Cambridge; represented in the House of Commons by LibDem Julian Huppert who is Treasurer of the Parliamentary CND group. Cambridge is without a single Conservative on the local council. On the panel tonight is Edwina Currie, Chris Huhne MP, Chuka Umunna MP, Kate Hopkins (no, me neither) […]

Question Time LiveBlog 20th January 2011

January 20, 2011 at 6:00 pm

Tonight Question Time comes from Burnley, best known for the fact the more Bénédictine is drunk in one bar there, the Burnley Miners’ Club, than anywhere else in the world. LibDem Gordon Birtwistle, elected in 2010, is the first non-Labour MP for the area since the Great War. On the […]

Question Time LiveBlog 13th January 2011

January 13, 2011 at 7:00 pm

Tonight the first Question Time of the new year comes from London. David Dimbleby will be with Michael Gove MP, Diane Abbott MP, Charles Kennedy MP, right-on lesbian novelist and delicatessen owner Jeanette Winterson and Dragon’s Den judge Nazim Khan who now calls himself James Caan since watching “Godfather”. For […]

Question Time LiveBlog 13th January 2011

January 12, 2011 at 7:28 am

A reminder, as if we needed one, that the grim horror of Question Time returns tomorrow Thursday the 13th for the first show of 2011. It’s BBC bias in the raw; at its most blatant and visceral. As usual we’ll be hosting a live chat here starting at 10:30pm and […]

EyeTube v2

December 30, 2010 at 10:08 pm

Back in September after much talk of censorship on YouTube and GrumpyOldTwat losing some of the videos that he had uploaded, TheEye and an intrepid band of testers launched EyeTube.EyeTube is a video sharing site designed as a safe haven for more controversial stuff than YouTube are happy to host. Originally a free-speech […]