In these days of pussyfooting around the obvious; when even suggesting that the Pakistan cricket team are a bunch of cheating scumbags who should be banned forever from world cricket is apparently racist, it’s refreshing to be allowed to be candid once in a while. A third of Indians are […]

Just when you thought we couldn’t find something else to waste money on, among comes the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority and their consultation exercise on MPs expenses. They are asking for public input, although it’s highly unlikely that anything involving hempen rope and/or lamp-posts will make it much beyond the […]

Of 180 countries worldwide, Denmark has been found to be the least corrupt for the second year in a row, despite the oil-for-food scandal. The United Kingdom slips in at a nifty 16th. (page382) Taking statistics from the Corruption Perception Index and a number of surveys, Transparency International ranks Denmark in the […]

TheEye is not a Sun reader. This has a lot to do with the fact that the crossword is too easy and that it is easier to be irritating in public with a strategically deployed broadsheet in a confined area. However The Sun Says today is rather good. In a […]

Not being a reader of the Grauniad I’m grateful for a nod in the direction of this article by Peter Wilby: “The Telegraph group, by my calculations, probably sold an average 60,000 full-price papers a day (including Sundays) that it would not otherwise have sold, taking into account that, on […]

A politician running with the slogan “All for me, nothing for you” has made it into the second round of local elections in Croatia. Independent candidate Josko Kraljevic Risa also campaigned using the slogan “It is definitely going to be better for me, but will be the same for you.” […]

As it’s now illegal to take a photograph of a policeman then TheEye has used one of a group of Metropolitan riot police officers dressed as intimidating paramilitary anonymous and faceless thugs who are hitting somebody. Oh. This report from the Countryside Alliance makes for very interesting reading. Whatever you […]