To all of our Finnish readers, All Seeing Eye bids one and all a happy National Sleepy Head Day (Finnish: unikeonpäivä) For those who don’t know, it is celebrated on July 27 every year. Traditionally on this day, the last person in the house (also dubbed as the ‘laziest’) to […]
Regular readers will know that TheEye has been involved with several of the Gurkha and Nepalese support groups in his Parish. So it was a pleasure to read reports about a long battle fought and won. Nepal’s Gurkhas gave British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley a hero’s welcome when she […]
This blog likes to provide examples of oddness, and this story is truly that. However sometimes these stories are tricky to find pictures to illustrate, so this time we can only get away with a suggestively-shaped building. From The Local, Sweden’s English daily newspaper… “Malmö’s Möllevången district was the scene […]
Bored with fighter aircraft and missiles? What do you get if you are a country with just about everything? How about your very own shiny new submarine to carry your nuclear missiles… What do you mean Not Got One Yet? Well now ya ‘ave, sunshine. India’s first home-made nuclear powered […]
Whisper it not in the corridors of the BBC, but the Obamessiah is less popular at this stage of his presidency than George W Bush was. Although this is being widely reported outside of the mainstream liberal media and therefore wouldn’t normally be blogged on here, there are a few […]
“The U.S. Senate voted on Tuesday to stop production of the F-22 fighter plane, handing President Barack Obama a victory as he tries to rein in defense spending,” reports Reuters. The Senate actually voted 58-40 in favour of funding the additional Raptors, but alas, the dreaded filibuster threat meant 60 […]
Last week we lost Henry Allingham, and today the sad news comes of the death at 111 of Private Harry Patch. He was the last British soldier to survive the First World War – a veteran of Paschendale and Ypres. At his death he was the oldest man in Western […]
In stories referring to Sen. Edward Kennedy it is common on this blog to add something along the lines of “Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.” Well, 40 years ago last Saturday, on July 18, 1969, Ted Kennedy drove his Oldsmobile, with Mary Jo in the passenger […]
It is easy to make the mistake these days of thinking that the current clash of civilisations and religions is between a mixture of Christanity and secularism on one side and extremist Islam on the other. There are other places where freedom is a pipe-dream. We learn today via Associate […]
Just as you’d expect from two unelected unwanted dictatorships, the EU is cuddling up to Cuba. You know, the same Cuba voted a few months ago as 7th Happiest Place To Live – a fact neatly explaining the hordes of Cubans trying to leave the place on converted lorries, surfboards […]
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