Those who follow the murky and dangerous business of scambaiting (not recommended for the novice or easily intimidated) will be very aware that there is a reason why individuals such at TheEye feel the need to keep a few scammers at a time on a wind-up leash. It’s because we […]

Well, there are plenty of odd ways to get a British passport…claiming to be gay is currently in vogue – not only does it get you asylum but improves your odds of a job at the BBC. Going on the run for a year works splendidly, as does being a […]

The headline “Pakistan Cricketers Are Cheats” doesn’t seem appropriate as a one-off, because it could really apply to a dozen incidents in the last 10 years. Right back in the summer of 2000 the Qayyum Inquiry into match-fixing was damning. Justice Qayyum’s investigation seemed thorough, and the Indians threw in […]

In what can only be described as an outbreak of criminal mob violence, pupils from the Hundred of Hoo Comprehensive School in Medway have been running up to smokers in the street, shouting “ciggy busters” and snatching their cigarettes from them. First spotted at Corrugated Soundbite’s, then Dick Puddlecote‘s; from […]

It’s exactly a year ago today that the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, was freed on compassionate grounds by the SNP-led Scottish government after receiving a doctor’s report saying that he had only got three months to live. Today there is a report that he might […]

News hits us today that benefit fraud will be tackled partly by using credit rating agencies making use of commercially-available data. All of the information in the world is useless unless you know how to query it intelligently, so to use welfare data and data that is publicly available or […]

Well that’s an unexpected turn-up for the books: it’s now legally okay to destroy the property of those  who do business with Jews. Last time that was really popular was Kristallnacht in 1938 but hey, ho, that probably makes it retro fashion, eh? This extraordinary moment in modern British legal […]

An all too familiar story followed by some unintentional black humour from today’s Daily Telegraph: Imran Khan, 19, an amateur cricketer boxer, and Somalian Abdul Said, 21, took 20 seconds to smash open a shop window in Ilford, Essex with a pickaxe and a sledgehammer. Sayid Mohammed, 20, and Adama […]

In a mind-numbing splurge of stupidity, Gordon Brown has apparently created something called a “Seaside Tsar” three days before an election. Duncan Bannatyne appears on television’s Dragon’s Den, which apparently is a capitalist version of Professor Heinz Wolff‘s classic show The Great Egg Race, and he’s been promised the new […]

So the Foreign Office have published a list of how to avoid going to jail if you travel to Dubai. The unspoken implication, of course, is that they are a horrendously bigotted bunch of fruitcakes who are oppressing innocent and harmless tourists (go to any bar in Benidorm to see […]