Question Time LiveBlog 7th July 2011
Question Time comes tonight from Basingstoke, which is twinned with Isengard in Mordor. Locally known as Gaysinblokes it is a marginally stylish buffer between the twin dumps of Southampton and Reading. It only features a swimming pool, two instantly forgettable colleges and a massive nightclub called Liquid which is populated […]
The Word “Inmate” Is Hurtful
In a rather entertaining lawsuit just filed in the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn), a woman is demanding that the State stop using the word “inmate“…because it is offensive to inmates the unenthusiastically liberty-inhibited. The court action has been started on behalf of her brother and claims that he has suffered […]
More Eco-Stupid Products
Glasses made out of human hair. Who thinks up this nonsense? Is cos it will save the polar bears, innit… Two Royal College of Art graduates have discovered a way to turn human tresses into sustainable eyewear. Not all of us are blessed with 20/20 vision, which means that petroleum-based […]
The Politics Of Spinning A Crime
The ever-breathless Nick Robinson is leading the joint Labour – Al Beeb charge to pin as much blame as possible on David Cameron for fact that a private investigator working for a newspaper listened to (and deleted) some voicemails of a murdered child eight years ago. TheEye has been keen […]
Burn The Witches!
Everyone, of course, knows what a witch is. Ragged and wild old woman; misdirects lost travellers, hobbles and cackles whilst saying lawks and is often seen at public executions performing a task impossible to mere mortals – knitting. Sir Bedevere will also prove to you that they weigh the same […]
Question Time LiveBlog 30th June 2011
Question Time comes tonight from Birmingham; a post apocalyptic prison-city which was extensively remodelled in the mid 20th Century by Adolf Hitler and is located in a huge bomb crater somewhere in the Midlands. Highlights include nightmarish buildings, utterly miserable public transport and sadistic traffic systems. For this reason Birmingham […]
The UK Is Screwed (Teaching Sector Edition)
There is an article on al-Beeb today documenting what seems on the surface to be a perfectly sensible idea by Education Secretary Michael Gove to make the standard of teaching in the UK system slightly less crap. The reason that it seems sensible on the surface is that…basically it is […]
Civil Service Quotas?
It’s often said that the Swiss have an excellent form of government. You can point to the fact that local and national referenda mean that different Cantons offer different tax rates, the citizens are armed and they are currently not putting up with this minaret building nonsense. That doesn’t stop […]
Miss Gibraltar 2011
Tonight TheEye will be at the annual Miss Gibraltar competition. Purely in the interests of research, you know. *sigh* the hardships endured by your host here in the interests of journalism… On the subject of hardship, some people by the names of “Katie Waissel” and “Jamie Archer” from something called […]
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