No, not the 1967 film of the same name. We read in the Daily Wail? A Gurkha soldier has been flown back to the UK after hacking the head off a dead Taliban commander with his ceremonial knife to prove the dead man’s identity. The private, from 1st Battalion, Royal […]

Regular readers will know that TheEye has been involved with several of the Gurkha and Nepalese support groups in his Parish. So it was a pleasure to read reports about a long battle fought and won. Nepal’s Gurkhas gave British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley a hero’s welcome when she […]

Oh dear, what have they done? It was always inevitable that if the Ghurkas won parity with other British troops in pay & conditions, that they would be on the slippery slope to being disbanded. Simply put, they are only cheaper than indigenous british troops if they are paid at […]