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Protecting The BBC (Literally)

November 4, 2010 at 10:46 am

So hands up who knew that the BBC still has a secret underground bunker, 10-floors deep into a mountain in the middle of nowhere, built during the Cold War in case there was a nuclear Armageddon? Buried 10 storeys into the hillside is a fully functioning nuclear bunker, built at […]

Justice Minister Stabbed: Update

November 4, 2010 at 10:26 am

Again, local news; but as the main writer of this blog is in the midst of the action then when the occasion demands we will carry such things. David Jesus Bonicci, 40, of Bacas Passage, the man accused of stabbing Gibraltar’s Justice Minister Daniel Feetham in the back with a kitchen […]

Gibraltar News: Justice Minister Stabbed

November 4, 2010 at 12:48 am

Gibraltar news today, so this is one for our local readers; but of a serious nature. Justice Minister Daniel Feetham was stabbed in the back yesterday in an “unprovoked” attack in broad daylight in front of his children. He’s in a serious but stable condition in St Bernard’s Hospital and his […]

US Mid-Term Elections Live-Blog 2nd Nov

November 2, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Tonight we’ll be live-blogging the US mid-term elections. The BBC and the left-leaning media are already trotting out the excuses, the blame game is beginning and the spinning on all sides has been going for days. But the polls are only just closing and careers can still be won and […]

Police marksman inserted song lyrics into fatal shooting evidence

November 2, 2010 at 6:18 pm

Police marksman inserted song lyrics into fatal shooting evidence Apparently a copper has been suspended for inserting lyrics of songs into his evidence reports! Oh for Christ’s sake! This is standard stuff for those who have to deal with some of the grottier aspects of society, especially those of us […]

Campaigning Video, US Style

November 2, 2010 at 5:45 pm

Voters in the UK are genetically programmed to hate party political broadcasts, but over here they aren’t ever as effective and striking as this….

Government Tapeworms

November 2, 2010 at 3:32 pm

We should all doff our hats to this effort which should have become Washington state’s ballot measure #1069 today: Full text here. Sadly, it doesn’t appear on the ballot today: According to state officials, no petitions were filed in an effort to qualify the measure for the ballot. Shame. It’d work […]

World Vegan Month (Pt2) There Is No Such Thing As A Vegan

November 2, 2010 at 9:06 am

At school, as part of your usual propaganda, you were doubtless taught that Red Indians could find dozens of uses for every part of a bison; nothing was wasted, they were the first Greens…yadda…yadda…yadda. Well that’s just not true. It’s taken capitalism and modern technology to reach that stage; and […]

World Vegan Day

November 1, 2010 at 10:51 am

Today is, apparently, World Vegan Day. You know where you can stick that idea. The weather is still good enough here for a barbecue tonight.

Alcohol ‘More Harmful Than Heroin’

November 1, 2010 at 8:17 am

Speechless. TheEye is speechless. Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser who was sacked by the government in October 2009. It ranks 20 drugs on […]