No-one seemed sure. Was he being kept on because he had uncharted talents? Did he have something on somebody to avoid the sack? Was he still in place because he was telling the truth about how poor and put-upon our MPs really are? Well the answer is now out in the […]

The wife of Japan’s next prime minister claims to have clocked up a diplomatic first by visiting Venus. Miyuki Hatoyama, who’s hitched to Yukio Hatoyama, wrote last year in a book not unreasonably entitled Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered: “While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on […]

David Davies is the MP for Monmouth and on the Home Affairs Select Committee. He’s a thoroughly sensible chap who is cursed by having to write back to thousands of invitations for speaking engagements to delicately check if he’s been mistaken (again) for THE David Davis, one time Shadow Home […]

You’d hardly put Romania in the “leading the way” department unless ‘inventing vampires’ was a subcategory. However, Romanian government ministers across the board have taken a 20% pay cut as a gesture towards sorting out their economic mess. For those who dimiss such moves as tokens, consider this: in an […]

The history of democracy in Europe is a mixed bag. In Great Britain we have been (broadly) free for a thousand years (give or take a few decades, and the bit since 1997). Other countries have been free for about as long as it takes to soft-boil an egg. And still […]

It’s almost impossible to believe. What to you give the first Speaker of the Commons to be ousted in 300 years? A peerage. It’s long been a traditional parting honour given to retiring Speakers, but Baron Martin of Springburn, of Port Dundas in the City of Glasgow as we must […]

Considering the geographical location of TheEye, it may be easy to dismiss this post as parochial, but it is far from that. Recently the Spanish government made claim to all of Gibraltar’s territorial waters under the pretext of environmental protection. When presented with the fait accompli by the EU, the […]

In the history of corrupt failing administrations, a dishonourable mention in dispatches will always be reserved for this current effort by the Labour Party. It’s a relief that it won’t go on for much longer. In the meantime, though, they seem to try every day to plumb new depths. Kevan […]

Seventy years ago tomorrow (Sunday), the Soviet Union signed a pact with Nazi Germany that gave dictator Josef Stalin a free hand to take over part of Poland and the Baltic states on the eve of World War II. Most of the world now condemns the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but Russia […]

Opinion polls are showing Obama’s approval ratings tanking in the USA, so, ever keen to fly in the face of public opinion the BBC demonstrate once again that every his orifice is but an opportunity to climb up. This week saw the arrival of the new American Ambassador to the […]