The World of Golf in New Malden has come up with a fantastic way of helping golfers to improve their aim: it has set up a target of the the one-eyed snot-gobbling Prime Mentalist on their driving range. Originally seen on the Standard’s website, apparently day-on-day golf ball usage is […]

Love’im or loathe’im, President Bush made a verbal gaffe or two. In todays intense media scrutiny of every cough or hesitation by a politician on television this will only increase. The MSM jumped on Bush for not remembering the name of the then President of Pakistan and replayed the clip […]

What do the following men have in common – apart from being ex-Prime Ministers obviously: Lord North John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury William Gladstone Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery Stanley Baldwin Ramsay MacDonald James Callaghan Clue: TheEye wants to […]

Of course THE story-du-jour has already done the rounds of every news blog that has ever existed…and even the BBC as well…so there is nothing TheEye can add to what has already been written. It takes talent to put an original twist on it and as usual the G.O.T. has […]

Of course THE story-du-jour has already done the rounds of every news blog that has ever existed…and even the BBC as well…so there is nothing TheEye can add to what has already been written. It takes talent to put an original twist on it and as usual the G.O.T. has […]

Of course THE story-du-jour has already done the rounds of every news blog that has ever existed…and even the BBC as well…so there is nothing TheEye can add to what has already been written. It takes talent to put an original twist on it and as usual the G.O.T. has […]

Of course THE story-du-jour has already done the rounds of every news blog that has ever existed…and even the BBC as well…so there is nothing TheEye can add to what has already been written. It takes talent to put an original twist on it and as usual the G.O.T. has […]

Of course THE story-du-jour has already done the rounds of every news blog that has ever existed…and even the BBC as well…so there is nothing TheEye can add to what has already been written. It takes talent to put an original twist on it and as usual the G.O.T. has […]

TheEye is unsure of the tack for this story. Whilst wanting keenly to assemble politicians, lampposts and hemp-based material in the same place at the same time, and deploring huge (legally and contractually due) bonuses going to bankers, these things go too far sometimes. Remembering the chaos at Davos a […]

An article in Wednesday’s edition of the ‘The Guardian’ describes Gibraltar as “a miraculous survivor in these days of international financial turmoil and sweeping recession, thanks to a sinking pound and an economy that grows at a rate comparable to that of China.” The author Giles Tremlett calls The Rock […]