Ah, how we miss that warm, reassuring phrase from Crimewatch. And we mustn’t fear, folks, because the ever-vigilant forces of law and order are on the case. Kids TV hosts Anna Williamson and Jamie Rickers have said they were questioned by police under anti-terrorism powers – for carrying glittery hairdryers. […]

It’s not often that TheEye quotes the Daily Make-It-Up but today is an exception, for we have the truly marvellous article: “Labour is dreaming up 33 new crimes a month… including barring you from swimming into the Titanic“. Labour has created 4,300 new crimes since taking power – including a […]

From the ever-entertaining Austrian Times comes this New Year tale of genius… Shopping centre bosses are offering women customers something to cushion the blow of a sales splurge – a special padded car park. The centres – in Peking and spread across all of northern China – feature women-only car […]

You have to laugh at the political correctness of it all. Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco apologised on Tuesday after complaints that a Christmas card it sold was offensive to people with ginger hair. The card in question shows a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus […]

Technically true, although Facebook users would disagree and claim that they were duped. A Swedish Facebook group originally promised it would send three kronor (£0.26p/$0.42) to organizations involved in heart research for every member that joined. Membership in the group grew exponentially, quickly climbing into the tens of thousands. But when […]

Okay, maybe not so glorious. You can imagine the hurried telephone conversation now. ….hey, Mr Wong, you down pub again?….I hear jukebox over telephone so you not lie to boss!…I need Tiger Woods CGI work choppychoppy….no no not care if you pissed again, just make up any old clap….

The other day TheEye heard ‘Stairway To Heaven’ being played on a digeridoo. Hmm, I thought, that’s aboriginal. But there is more to the Aborigines than getting monumentally drunk and a large red boulder in the desert. There’s Bush Law too, and last night in a documentary screened in Alice Springs they […]

Via the Greek boy

It was all meant to be so different, wasn’t it? All of the nannying, the illiberal bans and preaching, the holier-than-thou attitude….all due to be swept away when McDoom becomes the longest ever serving Prime Minister never to have won a General Election. After next May, all was to be […]

From the ever odd Romanian Times: Red-faced Latvian tourist chiefs have scrapped a campaign to promote the capital to English travellers when they realised their slogan had been mistranslated into: “Riga city – easy to go, hard to live.” The 500,000 GBP campaign showing off the city’s cultural highlights was […]