Oh dear, what have they done? It was always inevitable that if the Ghurkas won parity with other British troops in pay & conditions, that they would be on the slippery slope to being disbanded. Simply put, they are only cheaper than indigenous british troops if they are paid at […]
Some ideas that were widely held 100 or 200 years ago now seem shocking or barbaric today. Often we congratulate ourselves for thinking that we are so much more enlightened than our parents. But it seems unlikely that we’ve somehow reached the end of this process: I would guess that […]
St Crispin and TheEye will be getting together for a few ceremonial pink gins and an exchange of gripping yarns in Gibraltar between the 22nd and 25th of January. We don’t get together as often as we’d like, so the beerage intake opportunity will not be wasted. Any fellow bloggers, […]
The Animal ‘Rights’ nutcases have been active in Europe for a while but not quite to the fruitcake level seen in the US. The Sinn Fein to their I.R.A. is PETA (People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals). They’ve just launched their most nutty campaign yet: demanding fish be renamed […]
British WWI veteran dies aged 108 I was sad (but not supprised) to see that one of the last surviving WW1 veterans had died. Bill Stone served his country in 2 world wars. Thank you Bill. There is a lot of commentary about saying that the youth of today would […]
Some readers of TheEye and St Crispin reside in Gibraltar, and they will be snoozing this morning. Or down the pub early. Maybe both. Why? Because a few years ago Gib took the EU to court in a battle to maintain the right of the Gibraltar Parliament to set its […]
It takes a lot to shock TheEye, but occasionally a state of gibbering apoplexy can be induced. The example-du-jour comes courtesy of Bristol County Council via Bristol Dave (a sweary blog so a health warning for tender souls). TheEye can’t better the prose, so is going to reproduce it in […]
In Tales-Of-The-Blindingly-Obvious type news, readers will be unsurprised to discover that Scotland is poised to become the third most state-dependent country in the world, with only Cuba and Iraq spending more on public services. By 2012, public spending is expected to rise to 67 per cent of Scotland’s gross domestic […]
Cadbury, Britain’s most famous chocolate maker, has decided to warn chocolate lovers that its product contains: milk. The latest Dairy Milk wrappers feature a logo showing a glass and a half of milk being poured into a chocolate chunk, put milk first in a list of ingredients and explains that […]
TheEye isn’t really given to posts like this, but St Crispin regularly breaks bread and sups ale with the London Assembly Member for Bexley and Bromley, and TheEye is a big fan. It therefore seems churlish not to break with tradition and say something nice about someone on here for […]
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