We haven’t taken a look at the indispensable Austrian Times for a while, but here’s an interesting thought which might strike a chord in the UK: Dole bosses in Romania are adopting new laws banning people from claiming benefits if they own a camera. Under the new rules people who […]

Hadn’t seen this before. The BBC have produced on of those fancy graphic thingies where you get to slide a button along a bar and then it tells you how evil you are. Of course if you believe any of it you’re thicker than whale omelette, but that’s the way […]

It seems as though Sarah Palin’s fight against Obamacare’s death panels was only just in time for the Yanks (her response to Obama’s healthcare lecture to Congress here). It saved them from even more extreme bureaucrat-driven socialized medicine than they may soon be inflicted with. Today’s tale of terror from […]

The more sympathetic amongst our readers may wonder why an illegal immigrant suing the taxpayer and a grandmother suing Tesco are lumped together in a two-part rant about the compensation culture. The answer is simple…they are both taking the piss and should both receive nothing more than the proverbial good […]

In this post and the next one we have two claims for compensation, both of which make TheEye furious. Although they are for vastly different scenarios and vastly different amounts of money they make the hackles rise for exactly the same reason….they are taking the piss. The first random scumbag […]

Around the United Kingdom, millions of people will be laughing sardonically today at the news that have reached a 14 year high of 2.44 million unemployed. Laughing because they know that they aren’t on the proper register themselves but are hidden in the system…on some obscure other benefit or on […]

Around the United Kingdom, millions of people will be laughing sardonically today at the news that have reached a 14 year high of 2.44 million unemployed. Laughing because they know that they aren’t on the proper register themselves but are hidden in the system…on some obscure other benefit or on […]

The politicians in New York have come up with an interesting program to help the homeless: New York has found a novel, if expensive, way of dealing with its overcrowded shelters – buying one-way tickets for homeless families to leave the city. Under the initiative, by the administration of the […]

The decline of the work ethic in Britain has been a natural consequence of the rise and rise of the welfare state. Here is the brutal reality….. Almost a quarter of children in some parts of Britain are being born into households where no one has a job, new figures […]