Question Time tonight comes from Stockton-on-Tees. This market town is Europe’s largest producer of huge chavvy earrings, amphetamines and inca hats. It has an exceptionally low unemployment rate for the North East of only 73%. On the panel we have Housing Minister Grant Shapps MP, television executive and former Director […]

It’s a bit difficult to illustrate this post visually correctly but TheEye will give it a go. The main problem is the pure scale and impressiveness of the insult and how it doesn’t translate well in pictures. This is the north face of Gibraltar. It points directly at Spain. You […]

We’ve just had the most wonderful day in Gibraltar. Most of the population turned out to greet the Earl and Countess of Wessex, here as part of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations.  Prince Edward and Countess Sophie arrived on a British Airways flight (do we have no self-respect any more?) […]

A strange article from the ever-unreadable Brighton Argus: A school in Lewes has sent parents a letter reminding them that guns, whips and knuckle dusters are banned in class. Show-And-Tell next week? Cancelled.  TheEye actually took a English longbow (complete with the pointy dangerous add-on bits) to college a good […]

Tonight Question Time comes from Inverness. On the panel we have the most convoluted, adjusted and argued-over panel for many a year. On the panel, Deputy First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon MSP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles Kennedy MP, Labour’s leader in Scotland Johann Lamont MSP, Conservative […]

On this day in 1944, 195,700 naval and merchant navy personnel and 160,000 soldiers participated in Operation Neptune, the landing on the beaches in Normandy to begin the end of World War II in Europe. One of the most famous remembrances of that effort is Ronald Reagan’s speech to, at […]

Tonight Question Time comes from King’s Lynn (Coat of Arms Motto: “I can’t read or write, but I can drive a tractor”). The arrival of the BBC moving-picture machine demoncraft has been reported widely in the local newspaper – which is published fortnightly to warn the locals of upcoming full […]

Tonight Question Time comes from Cardiff from the original Welsh “Cahhhhdeff”. The “You Are Leaving Cardiff” sign has been voted Most Welcome Sight for six years running. The dialling code for Cardiff is 029 which came second in the 2011 Wales Most Interesting Area Code competition, losing out to Newport’s […]

The Eye occasionally explores the outer reaches of the truth – something which occasionally causes domestic grief …“how was I to know it was a strip club? We were just going for a beer in a different part of town” But this is rather good and will be stored away […]

Tonight Question Time comes from Oldham – which holds the record for the most Vauxhall Corsas per square mile. The name derives from Aldehulme; an Old Norse word meaning “Get the horses; we’re off” On the panel: Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman MP who famously paid for her nanny on expenses, […]