“The BNP would hand the key outpost of Gibraltar to Spain in an astonishing betrayal of its 30,000 British citizens. The move would also deprive the UK of a naval base – defended bitterly for more than 300 years – of huge strategic importance. Party leader Nick Griffin, elected as […]
A co-conspirator here, the GrumpyOldTwat, has launched a fightback at his own place against the Global Cooling Deniers with a series of posters, blog headers and so forth. Some sweary and some not, all are great designs to run with on your blogs in the run-up to the BBC love-fest that […]
The other day TheEye heard ‘Stairway To Heaven’ being played on a digeridoo. Hmm, I thought, that’s aboriginal. But there is more to the Aborigines than getting monumentally drunk and a large red boulder in the desert. There’s Bush Law too, and last night in a documentary screened in Alice Springs they […]
At first glance this has got to be every red-blooded males dream job. The advertised position, at the Leeds University School of Sociology and Social Policy, is for: “Research Officer – The rise and regulation of lap dancing and the place of sexual labour and consumption in the night time […]
From the Didn’t Know That Department comes a disturbing tale of how unwanted babies are dealt with in Germany. TheEye confesses to complete ignorace up until today of the existence of Baby Hatches – where newborns can be disposed of in much the same physical way as you’d put rubbish […]
Okay, so it’s an effort to get away from calling everything “…Gate”. Fed up with that now. From Anthony Watts through a report from the Climate Science Coalition of New Zealand, we find some more climate alarmist chicanery The New Zealand Government’s chief climate advisory unit NIWA is under fire […]
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Another Thursday, another BBC Question Time. Tonight it is broadcast from Edinburgh, and the panel will consist of the Labour peer “Lord” Falconer, the former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP, and the columnist Melanie Phillips. The and-somebody-else mouthbreathing spot this week goes to Marcus Brigstocke who is supposed […]
+++ Breaking (Parish) News +++ TheEye remembers how much trouble he got into early this year for commenting on the Miss Gibraltar contest, but hopes that it is safe to say this evening that congratulations are in order to Miss Gibraltar 2009 Kaiane Addorino, who has made history tonight by becoming […]
A 56-year-old man from Gothenburg has been awarded 60,000 kronor (GBP5,200 / $8,600) in compensation after being asked a question during an employment interview that was, in his view, insulting. When the man arrived at the company, located on the outskirts of Gothenburg, for his scheduled employment interview, the first […]
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