Just across the border from here in Gibraltar lies La Linea – a crime-ridden decaying town reliant solely on the financial overspill of The Rock. And after decades of corrupt and incompetent officials it is effectively bankrupt. So much so that the Policia Local officers are now having to take […]

I’m sure this is one that The Eye will be intrigued to read about it since it concerns his Spanish neighbours! Prostitutes working on the street outside a town northern Spain have been ordered to wear reflective vests to make them visible to passing traffic and reduce the risk of […]

My colleague on this blog, St. Crispin, has written below about the most recent event in the recent Gibraltar-Spanish clashes over the sovereignty of the Rock. Allow TheEye to provide some background. The current issue (although only a proxy battle) is the water around the area. Gibraltar was granted in […]

As Biased-BBC notes, if any terrorist group in the world wants an image makeover, Step One is to have the BBC on speed-dial. Typically, of course, their status seems to be ambiguous on our impartial State Broadcaster. From Wikipedia: The group is proscribed as a terrorist organization by the Spanish and French authorities, […]

Sent to TheEye by a Spanish reader…and not very politically correct at all, so presumably emailed on the tenuous basis that they are allowed to say it about themselves but no-one else is. Click to enlarge:

Tonight there have been shots fired off of Gibraltar according to witnesses, although it’s unclear at the moment who fired them or how many. Four Spanish ‘Guardia Civil’ officers have since been detained at Gib Police HQ. It seems that a Guardia Civil launch was chasing a Spanish speedboat within Gibraltar waters. The pursuit […]

+++ BREAKING NEWS +++ Well okay, not so much, because it happened four days ago but Breaking because the MoD have only ‘fessed up to the public in a press release late this afternoon. From the BBC with light fisking: The UK has apologised to Spain after the Royal Navy used a buoy […]

And still it goes on. Readers will recall Spain’s recent successful attempt to claim authority over Gibraltar’s territorial waters under EU environmental protection laws, and their ongoing attempts to assert that authority using armed fast patrol boats. The excuse from Whitehall for accepting the EU directive was that they hadn’t […]