January 12, 2011 at 1:15 am
In Canada last August, police arrested several suspected terrorists who had circuit boards that could be used to remotely detonate bombs. They have since been charged and are awaiting trial. But the police say they made one mistake – they made the arrests during the “holy” month of Ramadan. As […]
January 9, 2011 at 3:59 pm
And so the beat goes on…..*sigh*. A contribution today from one of the most badly assembled human beings ever made – for it is she: A MP has backed calls for the DNA screening of all men in Bristol as part of the hunt for the murderer of Jo Yeates. […]
January 7, 2011 at 10:00 am
You must have seen the quote “97% of experts support the anthropogenic global warming theory” quote in a thousand places – and that’s just on the BBC – but it’s interesting to finally discover how that figure was cooked. The number comes from a 2008 master’s thesis by student Maggie […]
January 7, 2011 at 1:15 am
Vanity Fair has just published an absolutely fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the unlikely and tempestuous working relationship between Wikileak’s Julian Assange and The Guardian. The timeline covers all of the events right from the start and it’s a must-read to fill in any details you might have missed or not […]
January 6, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Right about now the England cricket team are setting about taking the last three Australian wickets before winning the first Ashes series Down Under since 1987. And what was No1 at the time? The incredibly appropriate Nothing’s Gonna To Stop Us Now… Well done to Straussy and the lads. Ashes […]
January 6, 2011 at 7:24 am
The most serious things are often said in jest. From a recent HBO special, this clip of Dennis Miller giving “The Big Speech” is very good…
January 5, 2011 at 2:49 am
TheEye is a big fan of Gerry Rafferty’s music, and it’s very sad to hear that he’s just died at the age of 63. But for those of us who have followed his career it’s not a huge surprise. Born into a working-class family at Paisley, he earned money busking […]
January 4, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Thoroughly enjoyed this Daily Mail offering today: A vulture tagged by scientists at Tel Aviv University has strayed into Saudi Arabian territory, where it was promptly arrested on suspicion of being a Mossad spy, Israeli and Saudi media reported Tuesday. The bird was found in a rural area of the […]
January 4, 2011 at 2:51 am
After human traffickers took Chinese women to work in Africa as prostitutes, local and Chinese police mounted (is that the right word?) an operation to save them. But they don’t want to go home. Police from China flew to the Democratic Republic of Congo in November in the country’s first […]
January 2, 2011 at 11:45 am
Well there’s a surprise…the Sunday Express is apparently still in print. “Ringo Starr’s childhood home could be saved from the bulldozers, thanks to an obscure planning law. Planners at Liverpool City Council want to replace the buildings along Madryn Street with new housing, arguing that it would cost £150,000 to […]
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