Remember this Super Soaraway Sun headline from last December? Well, in the words of the Prophet Jagger: “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, so it’s down to England against Slovenia in the crunch match today. TheEye is, though, looking forward to his regular Wednesday early evening poker game and […]

Question Time tonight comes from Witney, the Westminster seat of David Cameron, and famous only for having had a woollen blanket making industry…now closed. On the first coalition Tory-free panel (no, Theresa May technically did count as one) we have Chris Huhne, Peter Hain, Jeffrey Donaldson, “Baroness” Helena Kennedy and Amanda […]

Question Time tonight comes from Plymouth, a city with the 11th largest University in the United Kingdom by number of students, and the largest operational naval base in Western Europe – HMNB Devonport. Plymouth is represented by the three constituencies of Plymouth Moor View (Oliver Colvile Con), Plymouth Sutton and […]

Question Time tonight comes from Brecon, the third largest town in Powys; home to the Gurkha Regiments and birthplace of Roger Glover from Deep Purple. The Parliamentary seat of Brecon and Radnorshire is represented by LibDem Roger Williams. Williams is a man so successful that he went from LibDem Welsh […]

Question Time tonight comes from Gravesend in Kent, famous mostly for the world’s oldest surviving cast iron pier and being the town where Pocahontas died. The seat of Gravesend is held for the Conservatives by former SAS Captain Adam Holloway. On the panel we have former Welsh Secretary John Redwood, […]

The second post-election Question Time comes from Richmond, Surrey. On the panel tonight we have a line-up positively pulsating with familiarity: Theresa May, Caroline Flint, Ming Campbell, Universal Shami and Douglas Murray from the Centre for Social Cohesion. For those playing the Buzzword Bingo, we’ll be invoking the “BBC Coalition Attention […]

The first post-election Question Time comes London. On the panel tonight are Lord Heseltine and Simon Hughes for the Liberals, Lord Falconer for Labour, Melanie Phillips for all those who mistakenly thought they were voting for a right-of-centre government last week, and Mehdi Hasan, who may or may not be an 83 year old ghazal singer from […]

Question Time this week comes Birmingham and will be, after a delay for the 10 O’Clock News, broadcast straight after the BBC’s stab at the 3rd Leaders’ Debate. It will be broadcast live so that both the audience and panel are able to comment on it. On the panel tonight […]

This Thursday evening again brings a double-bill of liveblogging….  “You lucky people”, as Tommy Trinder used to say. First up at 8.30pm we will be live blogging the 3rd Leaders’ Debate which is being broadcast on the BBC between 8.30pm and 10:00pm. Rather like the last Debate chat this promises […]

Blogging may be light or lightheaded over the next week, as contributor to this blog St Crispin will be in the neighbourhood as from today. The occasion is due to the visit of Type-23 frigate HMS Kent which is providing the platform for the final element of the Principal Warfare […]