Under heavy security, German Defence Minister Baron Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to meet with international military commanders and Afghan officials. ADVERTISING In his first visit to the war-torn country since taking the helm at the Defence Ministry, Guttenberg was to hold talks with […]
From the ever odd Romanian Times: Red-faced Latvian tourist chiefs have scrapped a campaign to promote the capital to English travellers when they realised their slogan had been mistranslated into: “Riga city – easy to go, hard to live.” The 500,000 GBP campaign showing off the city’s cultural highlights was […]
Two stories about the religion of peace to come out of Germany this week. First up we learn that a new programme is helping 17 Turkish imams learn German in a bid for integration in North Rhine-Westphalia. The imams from mosques across Germany travelled Dortmund for the course, which has […]
In the immortal words of Professor Farnsworth – “huh what?” A feminist issue? Last week Mary Fitzgerald argued that climate change is a feminist issue on the basis that population control is a way to prevent the situation spiralling out of control. And, she posited, this could be achieved by giving […]
Question Time today comes from Weston-super-Mare and the panel will consist of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and self-promoting turncoat Shaun Woodward, the Conservative Shadow Security Minister Pauline Neville-Jones, the Liberal Democrat spokesman on communities and local government Julia Goldsworthy, the cultural commentator and writer Will Self and the rowing champion, […]
For those who like a bit of television nostalgia set to music, enjoy “The Golden Age of Video”. Found by St Crispin and too good not to pass on.
Regular readers may recall that members of the Gibraltar Regiment have been proudly serving in Afghanistan from August 2004. However this all came to a grinding halt in February 2009 when some pen-pusher noticed that they were on a different and inferior injury compensation scheme to regular UK troops. Instead […]
There was an odd question raised in the House of Commons yesterday – not odd in itself but odd in the fact that the usual Hansard Kremlinwatchers may not be aware of the background. Firstly, the issue was about misconduct by the judiciary, and in response to a question from Labour’s […]
TheEye was rather taken by the forthright and understandable reaction over on the ARmy Rumour SErvice to the fact that our military-hating socially inept Prime Mentalist was unable to remember to bow his head at the Centotaph ceremony. When questioning how he could have been quite so insensitive, particularly apt was […]
The Courier newspaper in Findlay, Ohio, has featured on this blog previously. Mostly full of parochial affairs, it does however feature a regular and occasionally interesting summary of crimes committed in the area. For that reason bloggers in search of the occasional article should bookmark it as a bi-monthly glance […]
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