TheEye tends not to comment on high-profile news stories as they are usually done splendidly elsewhere. David Vance offers this, for example, about whether waterboarding and other methods of interrogation are acceptable in the War On Terror. It’s the ticking bomb scenario – only it is real and the bombs […]
Channel4 discusses the possibility of a hung parliament with a series of sycophantic comments from Liberals and not much else. There are useful reminders in it to the electorate that the markets will assume that we’re all doomed and react accordingly though, although no pictures of the dead lying unburied […]
The irony of an advertisement for backpacks next to an article on looking out for dodgy looking camel-jockeys whilst on public transport is one to savour, but the article raises some interesting questions (for small values of interesting). What would happen if you called a conference and nobody came? On […]
TheEye has unusual tastes in music sometimes, and was introduced to the music of Al Stewart many years ago by a young pub-quizzing friend who turned being a walking encyclopaedia in to his career path. Happy New Year to everyone, and especially to that certain setter of puzzles to whom […]
For those of you who keep an eye on shipping movements, there were unusual events listed by the Queen’s Harbour Master Portsmouth for late on the 25th December….ah, well it made TheEye smile anyway….
As we seem to be justifiably nervous again about the terrorist threat, let’s remember an event from October 2000 and a resulting death which happened only two days ago. The attack on the USS Cole killed 17 sailors and injured 39, among them Petty Officer 3rd Class Johann Gokool of […]
Ann Coulter’s column today makes an early and yet strangely powerful bid for the Statin’ The Bleedin’ Obvious Prize of 2010 by noting: For the past eight years, approximately 2 million Americans a day have been subjected to humiliating searches at airport security checkpoints, forced to remove their shoes and […]
From the ever-entertaining Austrian Times comes this New Year tale of genius… Shopping centre bosses are offering women customers something to cushion the blow of a sales splurge – a special padded car park. The centres – in Peking and spread across all of northern China – feature women-only car […]
From The Spectator tonight and only a brief article so worth reproducing in full. The photograph is of the Detroit bomb. Two of the leaders of the organisation that is claiming responsibility for the attempt to blow up a jet over Detroit were released from Guantanamo in 2007, ABC News […]
Fair play to Tim Montgomerie over at ConservativeHome – last weekend he reproduced some dire political posters from the Dependent on Sunday and asked for better anti-Labour / pro-Tory ideas. Very brave of him, considering. Steve Green of the Daily Referendum blog entered this one, and Tim says that he […]
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