From The Times and The Telegraph today: Radiohead today launched a sombre musical tribute to Harry Patch, Britain’s longest surviving soldier from the First World War, who died last month. The track, Harry Patch (In Memory Of), warns of the horrors of war. It was recorded live in an abbey […]

With a long-standing reputation as a pedant, TheEye has been particularly twitchy when watching recent reports on the picture-box and in the dead-tree press which have called Harry Patch “the last veteran of WWI”. As any fule kno, he was the last English soldier and veteran of the trenches to […]

Bored with fighter aircraft and missiles? What do you get if you are a country with just about everything? How about your very own shiny new submarine to carry your nuclear missiles… What do you mean Not Got One Yet? Well now ya ‘ave, sunshine. India’s first home-made nuclear powered […]

Last week we lost Henry Allingham, and today the sad news comes of the death at 111 of Private Harry Patch. He was the last British soldier to survive the First World War – a veteran of Paschendale and Ypres. At his death he was the oldest man in Western […]

There is a very interesting post over on Iain Dale’s site which apparently comes from an RAF insider detailing the real levels of helicopter availability. He doesn’t, however, include this gem of a fact. One of the few Chinooks that we have has been in service since 2003 but things […]

Wondered where all of the helicopter money went? Well it went in to the MoD budget for spying on troops injured in the course of duty. Using the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), originally intended to help the police and MI5 monitor terrorists in the UK, the MoD […]

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 […]

Vikings in Afghanistan are NOT a good idea. So why has the government presided over their continued use? British Forces in Afghanistan have been dealt a huge personal blow with the loss of the most senior infantry commander to be killed in action since the Falklands war. Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, […]

I am sure that The All Seeing Eye would be drawing your attention to the fact that today is the inaugural Armed Forces Day here in Blighty. Crowds are flocking to events the length and breadth of the UK topay homage to veterans and British troops serving on operations around […]

Did you read that thousands of US troops have been sent to Helmand province because British forces “lacked capacity”, the UK’s top commander in Afghanistan has said. General Jim Dutton told the BBC there had been huge areas of southern Afghanistan with no military presence. But Gen Dutton said that […]