From The Times and The Telegraph today: Radiohead today launched a sombre musical tribute to Harry Patch, Britain’s longest surviving soldier from the First World War, who died last month. The track, Harry Patch (In Memory Of), warns of the horrors of war. It was recorded live in an abbey […]
Various news outlets are reporting the rumour that Russia is planning to purchase a Mistral class large amphibious assault ship from France. The news hit the mainstream in an article in French business daily La Tribune, which predicts a deal being signed in September. The purchase, if successful, would be […]
Two countries, two cultures and two very different headlines for the same incident. Pravda give us the marvellous: “Two Russian Nuclear Submarines Make USA Shake With Fear” whilst the usually confrontational Fox News are significantly more boring with: “Defense Officials: Russian Subs Patrolling off East Coast of United States” Firstly […]
Back by popular demand (well, by TheBigDollop to be precise but TheEye is delighted to oblige) we continue our occasional series of Gratuitous Totty Pictures With Tenuously Connected Text. Up this time is a survey by Kodak Lens Vision Centres. Now you’ve got to wonder how they worked this one […]
TheEye thought that a skim through the last pile of fetid, pointless, expensive and time-wasting Early Day Motions put down before Parliament before their summer hols might be a bit of fun. Andrew Rosindell MP sneaks in with the very last two before the recess, and in a time of […]
There is an old saying “Opportunity Only Knocks Once…If There Are Two Knocks It’s A Jehovah’s Witness”. If you’ve already got the current Watchtower then there is no point heading to the international congress of Jehovah’s Witnesses at Vienna’s Ernst Happel Stadium this weekend. Bernd Gsell, a spokesman for Austrian […]
This AGW (oops, sorry, climate change now) nonsense has hit new levels of self-parody and satire. As has been giggled about in countless other places and in the midst of us poor taxpayers being promised a windfarm in every front garden whether we need our electric toothbrushes to work when […]
With a long-standing reputation as a pedant, TheEye has been particularly twitchy when watching recent reports on the picture-box and in the dead-tree press which have called Harry Patch “the last veteran of WWI”. As any fule kno, he was the last English soldier and veteran of the trenches to […]
Things to do when you are bored Number #1,924: Break the world record for the number of ladies wearing bikinis in a single photograph.By a spooky coincidence, 1,924 is exactly the number you’d need. So imagine how annoyed you’d be if you set up an attempt at the record but […]
In terrifying news today, we learn the shocking news that farmers sometimes carry farm tools to do farming jobs. Tony Martin became the hero of everyone who has been the victim of crime for shooting Fred Barras who, with Brendan Fearnon, had broken in to his remote farmhouse in Norfolk […]
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