Survey Technique 101

July 20, 2009 at 5:43 pm

There are several rules about organisations releasing poll results from surveys conducted on their own behalf. Rule 1 is Slant Your Questions To Get The Answer You Want Rule 2 is Hide Or Bin Off The Results You Don’t Like The Royal Commonwealth Society in London don’t seem to have […]

Half-Baked Laws

July 17, 2009 at 3:37 pm

TheEye is not a Sun reader. This has a lot to do with the fact that the crossword is too easy and that it is easier to be irritating in public with a strategically deployed broadsheet in a confined area. However The Sun Says today is rather good. In a […]

Gordoom’s (Free) Mobile Mystery

June 16, 2009 at 9:00 pm

In the early days of the All Seeing Eye, wise words were emailed in from The Croydonian. Always have a daily browse through Hansard to spot a few unnoticed gems to post. Well TheEye has gone two better than that and let CHome do the research and pinched a splendid […]

And It Worked Really Well Last Time, Nein?

June 16, 2009 at 2:40 pm

From the ever odd Austrian Times, we have the Survey Of The Day. One in five Austrians want a “strong leader”. The demographic group contributing to this poll may or many not have consisted mostly of itinerant Austrian painters with small mustaches and body odour. However we learn: “A study […]

Brown White Wash

June 16, 2009 at 12:11 am

Image via the superb GOT but fury and indignation courtesy of TheEye. Calm start and deep breaths as this is a non-sweary blog…although it might not be by the end of this f**king post. Right. So you have a war or two. Just about everybody in the House of Commons […]

EU Constitution A Done Job

June 14, 2009 at 1:10 pm

Now TheEye would be interested to know about David Vance’s views as somebody who lives across the water, but Ken Clarke seems to think that the Republic will be successfully bullied in to voting YES on the EU Constitution second time around and that means that the Conservatives will back […]

Only Delaying The Inevitable

June 14, 2009 at 11:36 am

On Wednesday the SNP and Plaid Cymru used their Opposition Day to put down a motion in the House of Commons to dissolve Parliament and hold a General Election. TheEye will research the wording of the motion as it probably would have to be a petition to Her Majesty asking […]

Echo Chamber

June 14, 2009 at 8:00 am

A Defence debate was held last Thursday in the House of Commons. Take a look at the picture of the event itself and look at how many MP’s could be bothered to turn up. A smattering of Tories but one…count them all…one…Labour backbencher present. Scandalous. As a famous Oliver once […]

Who Really Made Money In Expenses-Gate?

June 13, 2009 at 7:28 pm

Not being a reader of the Grauniad I’m grateful for a nod in the direction of this article by Peter Wilby: “The Telegraph group, by my calculations, probably sold an average 60,000 full-price papers a day (including Sundays) that it would not otherwise have sold, taking into account that, on […]

Pick a Scumbag…Any Scumbag

June 12, 2009 at 8:06 pm

Rather like any bad game of rigged cards (and TheEye has been involved in his share) we learn nothing about the Iranian elections from the BBC. Vote for a scumbag…same as the last scumbag. Except the bias is rather entertaining. They are very excited about the election taking place between […]