Quite why uber-geek Lee Doren thinks that $500 is going to sway the discussion-avoiding Eco-Billionaire-In-Waiting Goracle, but the idea of a significant number of people each pledging $1 would be, if used well, a clever way to get some traction going in the campaign for a straight and honest debate […]
If it is a day ending in a “y,” it must be a day for climahysteria (via The Clamour Of The Times) Scientists will this week warn that Italy may be forced to import the basic ingredients for pasta, its national food, because climate change will make it impossible to […]
Ian Burrell, a blogger on the Independent’s site has written the following article about the future of blogging, and it seemed to merit a light fisking. Baroness Buscombe, the new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, has ambitions for her organisation that go beyond the traditional newspaper companies. A new […]
Gerald Warner at his best in the Telegraph. Worth reading the whole article, but here is a flavour: Gordon Brown is set to make a public apology for the Norman Conquest. Last night close aides and Downing Street insiders categorically denied that any such move was being considered, fuelling the […]
It was all meant to be so different, wasn’t it? All of the nannying, the illiberal bans and preaching, the holier-than-thou attitude….all due to be swept away when McDoom becomes the longest ever serving Prime Minister never to have won a General Election. After next May, all was to be […]
The Taxpayers’ Alliance have produced an advert which will be shown in cinemas across the UK from this Friday (20th). It concentrates on the financial cost and waste of the EU rather than sovereignty issues, which are obviously harder to get across in a 2 minute visual slot. It’s a […]
Back in September this blog, Subrosa and others highlighted the stealth closure of crucial parts of the 200 year old British Forces Post Office – the on-base Postal Service for our servicemen. The initial measure is to save £1.76M by withdrawing BFPO services to NATO HQs. As part of Planning […]
Roland Emmerich’s new end-of-the-world disaster film 2012 has a rollicking good time destroying every monument to man’s architectural genius in the world. The Sistine Chapel is destroyed, as is the Vatican and the giant Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. The White House gets flattened, too. All man’s […]
TheEye received an email from reader Arthur recently who is British but fluent in Swedish. Remembering fondly the days of romancing a young lady from Sweden, TheEye has decided that this blog should impart a basic level of competency in the language to readers, and so please try this not-safe-for-work […]
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