Never Forget Enough said.

The Orange Lodge in Scotland is learning that freedom of expression is not free – they are going to be charged to march. We learn from The Scotsman: The contribution will be voluntary because, as a non-profit organisation, the Orange Lodge is exempt from paying for any policing. However, police […]

People talk of “barriers” or “milestones” or “tipping points” or “marks” and assign them a significance far beyond their actual worth. Hitting a century at Lord’s. Getting that telegram from the Queen. Watching the FTSE top 6000. This is not one of those moments. Every one of those 201 servicemen […]

The wheels are falling off the Hope’n’change bus. Obama’s popularity is falling and the Town Hall meetings designed to flog the socialist Obamacare system to a disbelieving electorate has run in to a storm of protests. So the time is right for an old-fashioned Tony Blair style diversionary scare story […]

It is easy to make the mistake these days of thinking that the current clash of civilisations and religions is between a mixture of Christanity and secularism on one side and extremist Islam on the other. There are other places where freedom is a pipe-dream. We learn today via Associate […]

Today is election day across the UK for MEPs and local councils and just about every blog will be running with the story. However TheEye has a penchant for remembering. It was 5 years ago today that we lost The Gipper at the fine age of 93. Yesterday a tearful […]

On the 4th of April 25 years ago, it was, famously, a bright cold day. George Orwell wasn’t writing a instruction manual for ZaNuLabour, it was/is a warning. If you haven’t got it then get a copy, read it and pass it on to spread the message. “It was a […]

This message is from the Young Britons’ Foundation to certain chaps and chapesses in Luton (and elsewhere). Says it very well.

There was much grumpiness on this blog a fortnight ago about the Spanish knee-jerk reaction against the visit of Princess Anne to Gibraltar. They weren’t happy. She touched down today on an RAF Bae146 jet operated by No 32 (The Royal) Squadron. Within a few hours the least-worst politician on […]

The Ulster Unionist Party’s ruling executive met last night to give its final decisions on the details of its partnership with the Conservative Party. With only one MP, Lady Sylvia Hermon who regularly votes with Labour, you’ve got to hope that David Vance or another of this blog’s NI correspondents […]