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Where Are They Now: The Bangles

January 4, 2009 at 2:42 pm

Those of a certain age will remember The Bangles, an 80’s pop phemomenon/embarassment depending on your taste. Who could forget hit songs like “Manic Monday” (written by Prince, incidentally), “Walk Like An Egyptian” and “Eternal Flame”? After a fifteen-year pause, the original members Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, and Vicki Peterson […]

The Falkland Islands: A New Year Message From Brown

January 2, 2009 at 1:40 am

TheEye stands with our overseas friends. However a fisking is needed of this strange message from our Prime Mentalist. Courtesy of the undeniably excellent Falkland News (confess now, you read it every day don’t you) we find that the One Eyed Son Of The Manse has issued a New Year […]

Gibraltar Football Association – You Couldn’t Make It Up

January 2, 2009 at 1:07 am

Whilst in no way denegrating serious stories, TheEye delights in trivia and is pleased to note that the Gibraltar Football Association has been notified by its Swiss lawyers of a ruling of the Swiss Supreme Court on 22nd December which favoured GFA’s application for UEFA membership. This has been blocked […]

Staff Sgt Simon Cullingworth and Spr Luke Allsopp

January 1, 2009 at 1:50 pm

In a story unashamedly lifted from A Tangled Web TheEye is pleased to read: Here’s a sort of good news story for this New Year morning. Britain has defied the Baathist-lovers in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) by handing over two Iraqi men accused of murdering British soldiers […]

This Year Is Soooo 2008

December 31, 2008 at 8:29 pm

Don’t feel like waiting a few more hours for midnight and the New Year? Check out one of the New Year’s Countdown clocks here. Residents in Kathmandu will ring in the year within the next few hours. Denizens of Bombay will do the same shortly afterwards. Do you know a […]

BlogRoll Suggestion: Tractor Stats

December 31, 2008 at 7:41 pm

TheEye likes the cut of “Tractor Stats” gib. An image-oriented blog, there are some fine images – mostly political – to be enjoyed. Not personally being adept at picture manipulation, kudos is given to those who are. This artfully done picture (under the title “To brownly go where no minister […]

The New Years Honours List

December 31, 2008 at 6:54 pm

Almost certainly Chris Hoy is a thoroughly decent cove. He may even have a personality despite being voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year which, from the recent results, probably means the opposite. Today he was awarded a knighthood. Eh? Why? He cycled around in a circle in Peking this […]

Legalized Crucifixion By The Religion Of Peace

December 31, 2008 at 6:23 pm

The Jerusalem Times gives us the following irony: “Both Iran and its Hamas proxy in Gaza have been busy this Christmas week showing Christendom just what they think of it. But no one seems to have noticed. On Tuesday, Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Shari’a criminal […]

Happy New Year 2009

December 31, 2008 at 6:03 pm

This is the first New Year for TheEye with this blog, and doubtless fellow contributor St Crispin will join in offering próspero año nuevo to all of our readers. In the meantime, a New Year’s Resolution is necessary. Please add your own in the Comments section but as far as […]

I Yam What I Yam

December 31, 2008 at 3:14 pm

No, not the plaintive cry of a potato, but the words of the most famous cartoon spinach-eater: Popeye. Not true for much longer. In a few hours time the copyright on the sailor will expire. Our EU overlords only allow his creator, Elize Segar (who died aged 43), 70 years […]