There is a very interesting post over on Iain Dale’s site which apparently comes from an RAF insider detailing the real levels of helicopter availability. He doesn’t, however, include this gem of a fact. One of the few Chinooks that we have has been in service since 2003 but things […]
The BBC is at it again. Bias isn’t just a skin infection for them…it is a disease which goes right through every nerve and bone. Compare and contrast their treatment of two Sarah’s. First up is Sarah Kennedy. the Radio 2 presenter was “spoken to” by executives at the corporation […]
There have been many attempts to show that B Hussein Obama might not be an US citizen and therefore is not eligible to be President. Some have been dismissed by the courts but more than a dozen are still making their way through the US judicial system. Make of them […]
113 years old, and a founder member of the RAF? What a life? A man born before heavier than air flight was even invented, Henry joined the Royal Naval Air Service at the outbreak of WW 1 (hurrah!) Then when the RAF was formed in 1918 he transferred (Boo!). Luckily […]
Wondered where all of the helicopter money went? Well it went in to the MoD budget for spying on troops injured in the course of duty. Using the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), originally intended to help the police and MI5 monitor terrorists in the UK, the MoD […]
A car dealer in Butler, Missouri has come up with an entertaining free gift with any pick-up truck you buy from him in August….he’ll throw in an AK-47. Instead of handing out the hardware himself, Mark Muller of Max Motors is giving a voucher for the $450 cost of what […]
I touched on this story the other day but didn’t realise that it was an American company’s premises that French workers were threatening to blow up IF they didn’t get better redundancy terms. I’ve heard of a Glasgow kiss as an act of brutality but now it looks like la […]
If you want irony and strangeness then the Austrian Times should always be on your Favourites list. Here we learn about the embarassing fate of the world’s fastest rollercoaster: “The world’s fastest rollercoaster which was opened in a blaze of publicity last week with F1 legend Michael Schumacher in pole […]
TheEye is not a Sun reader. This has a lot to do with the fact that the crossword is too easy and that it is easier to be irritating in public with a strategically deployed broadsheet in a confined area. However The Sun Says today is rather good. In a […]
Did you see that the Parliament in Iceland has voted by a narrow majority to set in motion an application to join the European Union, after five days of gruelling debate? Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir of the Social Democrats has also been pushing for the adoption of the euro as […]
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