Today is National Day in TheEye’s home of Gibraltar. Every year on the 10th of September Gibraltar celebrates the 1967 referendum when, with a massive majority, the people voted to reject annexation by Spain. The result itself was 12,138 votes to 44 in a truly North Korean 99% rout for […]

It is not for nothing that one of the writers on this blog has chosen St Crispin as his nom de guerre. His status as a serving officer precludes him from contributing anything like as much as he would like to our blog but he is a good friend to […]

From The Local in Sweden (italicised), with a few questions in-line in red: “A 19-year-old woman from Sölvesborg in southern Sweden has had her request for permission to get a tattoo of the national coat of arms turned down by a chief heraldist at the National Archives, local newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning […]

Forty years after D-Day The Gipper gave this speech on the Pointe du Hoc. ..your hopes are our hopes and your destiny is our destiny… …we were with you then, we are with you now… …your hopes are our hopes and your destiny is our destiny… …here in this place […]

It was on this day in 1940 that Winston Churchill stood up in the House of Commons and gave one of his many – but perhaps the most famous of his speeches. “…we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the […]

Just listen to what this old soldier has to say and if you don’t get wet eyes then read elsewhere tomorrow. Especially moving was the part when asked what he expected from the US Government in return for his service.He didn’t serve in WWI and WWII because the government asked […]

It’s not just RIP from TheEye to one of our heroes. It seems that he has been shabbily treated. Now TheEye hates the EU and all of it’s pernicious just-for-the-hell-of-it legislation but maybe for once their “Human Rights” nonsense might actually really help someone genuinely.It’d be a bloody first. The […]

This was spotted in the Daily LabourGraph but, this being a blog with a military twist, it deserves another airing. We read: “A British serviceman currently on active service in Afghanistan is to use his five days’ leave in the UK to run the London Marathon. Flt Lt Michael O’Hara […]

This was spotted in the Daily LabourGraph but, this being a blog with a military twist, it deserves another airing. We read: “A British serviceman currently on active service in Afghanistan is to use his five days’ leave in the UK to run the London Marathon. Flt Lt Michael O’Hara […]

For exactly 250 posts now, TheEye and his co-conspirators St Crispin and the GrumpyOldTwat have been randomly spreading military stuff, political opinion and random nonsense with all of the enthusiasm of a Rwandan soldier who has just won 2 minutes on a trolley-dash in a machete shop. To mark this […]