Parish News: Gibraltar Dockyard On Fire

Parish news maybe, but a major explosion where TheEye lives on the North Mole in Gibraltar. That's the cruise liner Independence Of The Seas in the background. She has moved to the eastern side of the Rock now. (Luckily Dioclese is cruising the other end of the Med)

As we have many local readers this will be updated as news comes in and TheEye is watching this as the smoke billows. The Rolling Update will be over-written rather than added to. No point posting in increments really,

Rolling Update: Two injuries, one with serious burns, reported so far. He's been flown to Seville Hospital. Defence Fire Service and Royal Gibraltar Police on the scene. RAF Gibraltar is closed and the Chief Minister has arrived with some splendid soundbites. The C3 Committee is about to meet (you'd have to be really local to get that  reference - UK readers think COBRA but with plastic chairs).

All very dramatic. Black smoke is usually the sign of breaking chaos, apparently. This is the most exciting harbour event for a decade and TheEye has just been turned away from a waterfront vantage point - based not on the police disapproving of voyeuristic traits but having a glass of red wine in hand.

BULLSHIT UPDATE: No6 Convent Place are hinting at possible terrorist activity. Possibly maybe. Hah! (Note to non-locals...No6 is the equivalent of No10 Downing Street for the UK and there is a General Election due this year. Scaremongering never goes out of fashion it seems)

Terrorism? Really? Somebody just pressed the wrong button - everybody please relax, eh?

(Pic from the Chronic and Panorama)

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Muslim Inventions

The State Department in the US has a “1001 Muslim Inventions” program dedicated to praising the supposedly wonderful inventions by Muslims that make our everyday lives oh-so-much easier. In the introduction to a video released last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton goes utterly overboard in the introduction:

I am delighted to send greetings to each of you at this year’s “1001Inventions,” celebrating a millennium of science and innovation in the Muslim world.

This exhibition honors the remarkable accomplishments of Muslims throughout history: from a woman who founded a university in the 9th century – to a 13th century inventor and mechanical engineer – to a surgeon whose writings influenced European medicine for hundreds of years.

And, of course, we’re seeing the impact of technology in the Muslim world right now – as young people throughout the Middle East and North Africa find new ways to use social networking to get organized and express their aspirations.

Odd how Twitter is a wonderful institution when Islamic terrorists are busy overthrowing governments in the Middle East and setting up oppressive totalitarian sharia states but utterly utterly bad when you want to shine a light into corruption in South Tyneside or keep your shagging tales quiet.

Interesting too that they can only list things from the 9th to the 13th Century, which is about where they stopped as a society anyway. NASA couldn't do much better when instructed that one of their primary missions was Muslim "outreach".

Perhaps both of those organisations have forgotten the major scientific leaps in the last few years - brought to you by Islam - in suicide vest technology.

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Question Time LiveBlog 26th May 2011

Question Time comes tonight from a location they've decided not to share with us (at the time of typing this) on the BBC QT website. Tripoli maybe? Some newly-vacated office-space in Abbottabad, Pakistan? UPDATE: Exeter

On the panel we have Conservative MP and novelist Louise Bagshawe, Foreign Office Minister Jeremy Browne MP, Labour MP Hilary Benn, Britain's former Ambassador to the United States and Press Complaints Commission Chairman Sir Christopher Meyer and media lawyer Charlotte Harris.

The LiveBlog will also stay open for the surreal This Week, with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo.

David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be moderating the abuse here from 10:30pm. See you later!

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AllSeeingEye BlogMeet

It's here again...the regular Gibraltar meet-up for bloggers TheEye and St.Crispin. Efforts to get the other AllSeeingEye contributors Max and David Vance here are ongoing - hopefully next time, guys?

Regulars here will have noticed the recent silence from co-blogger and all-round good egg St.Crispin.

A while ago he received a 48 hour Notice To Move, which put our chap on alert that his services were needed somewhere warm and dangerous. Sure enough, a few flights later he found himself on board HMS Liverpool off Libya doing the sort of things that people unfortunately need to do. Now he's off to another (safer) task so the need for Persec is eased a little.

On the way he's passing through Gibraltar so beers will be consumed over the next few days. If you're a reader in the area and want to join us any time this week then drop us a line through the Email or Skype contacts on the left side of the blog.

A Horse's Neck or three in the mess at HMS Rooke followed by a bimble around Town...who could turn down an offer like that, eh?

Please give us a shout; it'd be great to meet you....


UPDATE: St Crispin's girlfriend flew out to Gibraltar to meet him for the week, and today, at the very top of the Rock...he proposed and she accepted. 


Congratulations to them both. They are a wonderful couple.

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Picture O' The Day

For those of you that haven't had your fill of all things Ryan Giggs in the last few weeks.

The billboard is priceless...

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Awful Timing

Is this the worst timing in the history of journalism? Probably not, but in the history of the Yorkshire Post it's got to be damn close.

Dated yesterday...oh yes...yesterday. Indeedy.

The best bits of the article are worth quoting because it's bound to get pulled.

RYAN Giggs is widely seen as one of the finest modern-day role models for his sport.

He is also a family man, marrying his long-time partner Stacey Cooke in September 2007 in a ceremony attended by close relatives and friends. The couple’s children, Liberty and Zach, were part of the congregation.

There have been calls from politicians for him to receive a knighthood, and Sir Alex wrote in his foreword to Giggs’s autobiography Ryan Giggs: My Life, My Story, published last year: “How I would love to adorn my team sheet with the words ‘Sir Ryan Giggs’.”

“I hardly drink any alcohol these days. I have taken up yoga, which is great. I just lead a more boring life.”

Rather good was:

“Early this year he launched his contribution to the world of workout DVDs, releasing his Giggs Fitness: Power & Strength Through Yoga DVD.”

Well at least we know that it works!

Published yesterday! Bwhahahaha

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Obama Is In Town (Pt2)

From the previous post "There was a reason that TheEye began this post. Can't remember what it was now..."

Ah yes! That was it! Handing out the Obama Buzzword Bingo cards.

When Obama stands up in Westminster Hall, have your card at the ready. It's a drinking game, so charge your glasses and keep the bottle close by. For every tick on the card it's a shot of scotch. A large measure for finishing a row or column. Finish the card and finish the bottle.

The game requires decent whisky too. If you're going to sit through this awfulness then the least you can do is enjoy a decent drop of poison.

Four cards to pick from; each a bit different. Good luck!

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Obama Is In Town

It's painful, isn't it? The BBC, who are probably the last surviving global cheerleaders for The One, have gone completely overboard trying to force his visit to the UK down the gagging throats of us unwilling 'license fee' taxpayers.

Sycophantic interviews and wall-to-wall coverage. It's been - frankly- embarassing. They've probably had to laminate photographs of him at Broadcasting House to get maximum wipe-clean usage.

It's the 'unique way we're funded', don't you know? Yes, unfortunately we do.

The way that the BBC are carrying on, anyone could be mistaken for thinking there was a US Presidential election in the offing and that British citizens had a vote. Which is great because the last time the Guardian newspaper played that trick it backfired horrendously.

Remember August 2004 when they bought a voter list from Clark County for $25 and asked readers to write to people listed as undecided in the election? They  gave a twisted impression of the international view of the 'importance' of voting against President Bush. The paper scrapped "Operation Clark County" after first publishing a column of complaints about the campaign under the headline "Dear Limey Assholes" and the US public backlash against the campaign contributed to Bush's victory in Clark County.

Obama will lecture the Commons and the Lords about something we've done wrong somehow tomorrow (the 25th). Probably Kenya-related. It was all our fault, you know.

Last September, Pope Benedict XVI became the third foreign dignitary to address both houses in Westminster Hall since World War II, following French president Charles de Gaulle in 1960 and South African president Nelson Mandela in 1996.

Which is nice. So in that exclusive club the socialist jug-eared embarrassment joins an ex Hitler Youth apologist for church kiddy-fiddling cover-ups, a Frenchman who wouldn't stand and fight a Frenchman and an ex-terrorist a man with horrible taste in shirts. Who is a stunt double for Morgan Freeman.

Obama and his wife are in London from May 24 to 26 in the first state visit by a US president since that of George W. Bush in 2003. Bush was to have addressed Parliament but cancelled the speech due to anti Iraq War protests.

Former US presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan gave speeches in the Royal Gallery in 1995 and 1982 respectively.

Now at least one of those men was a really great President.

There was a reason that TheEye began this post. Can't remember what it was now...

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Giggs - The AntiClimax

Something has just happened of no interest at all.

A week ago? Two? Longer? Thousand Year Superinjunction Reichs were the gossip of the moment. The names involved were new, dangerous, exciting. Mr Justice Eady was busy making law up on the spur of the moment and all was well in the world of sharp-suited lawyers.

Twitter soon saw an end to that. Offshore bloggers safely published on offshore blogs the full rundown of names and inside leg measurements. MaxFarquar (where TheEye is a co-conspirator) was the place to be for the hot story...so hot in fact that as the news broke so did the server and needed a hasty upgrade. TheEye still wakes up in cold sweats recalling the rushed tech work required that night. 

Now publicity-junkie, all-round media whore and serial adulterer John Hemming MP has 'broken' the news in Parliament. He's made headlines around the world telling Parliament 'officially' something that anyone in the UK not living under a stone has known for so long that it has got cobwebs on it.




Yawn. If you want news then TheEye posted this on MaxFarquar when it was interesting. Now the embers are cooling, so the MSM are welcome to what's left...

This is not in the same league as the injunction slapped on the Trafigura affair - when a company accused of illegal chemical dumping sought undeserved silence through the courts. That was pure abuse of power by a company. This is an altogether more sordid he-said-she-said argument. She said she couldn't afford the 50k to get a counter-injunction, he says she blackmailed him etc etc. If you don't want the shame, keep it in your trousers. That must apply equally, under the law, for international footballers and TheEye when he's down the pub.

There is no legal difference and there must be no legal difference. Equal access to the law is a fundamental right, and 'I'm married' is still 'I'm married'. The law must not add on '...plus I have sponsorship deals to think of'.

Yet in both cases Bilbo the SpeakerDwarf has sought to limit the *absolute* right of Parliamentary Privilege to discuss *anything they want to* and that is a disgrace to his office. The Speaker has a duty to uphold the rights of Parliament and not the Judiciary or the Executive. That Bercow has failed so manifestly in his sworn duty makes him (even more) unfit for office.

Speaker Bercow (and it's not the first time TheEye has screamed and cursed this) must go.

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Awww How Nice...

The Metro splashes their front page about Man Ure winning the team's 19th league title with a picture of Ryan Giggs celebrating with his children.

Now isn't that nice? Family values, eh?

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Question Time LiveBlog 19th May 2011

Question Time comes tonight, unbelievably, from inside HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs. Built in the 1880s by convict labour (imagine trying that today...can't do that, it's me uman rites, innit) - past inmates include escapee Soviet spy George Blake and the only UK Minister to have been confirmed as a Soviet spy John Stonehouse.

On the panel we have Ken Clarke, Jack Straw, token right-winger Melanie Phillips and Universal Shami Chakrabarti. To be fair, Chakrabarti hasn't been on QT for at least a couple of weeks now so the BBC probably think we're missing her or something.

It's fair to assume that the first question will be about rape, so make sure you have the Shrill Feminist Whine setting turned right down on your television set.

The LiveBlog will stay open for the surreal This Week, with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo.

David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be moderating the abuse here from 10:30pm. See you later!

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US Presidential Elections: Vital Questions (Pt1)

Now that Donald Trump has stepped aside, perhaps former Bush official John Bolton has a better shot at the Presidency?

Okay, it's unlikely. Very unlikely. But hilariously deadpan David Frost gets to the heart of the burning issue: is America ready for a President with a mustache? Part of a longer vid (23 mins) but all of it interesting if you follow US politics.



You've got to hand it to the lad. He exaggerated the satellite time lag to play for thinking space and came out with Teddy Roosevelt. Well played.

Impressive stuff. Maybe he shouldn't be written off yet after all?

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DKS - Taiwan Animation Style

A Taiwanese animation of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn nonsense was always on the cards, and here it is. Nothing in English, unfortunately (will keep an eye out for that) but it's pretty self-explanatory.

Enjoy.

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Seve Ballesteros: A Tribute

...but not in quite the way you'd imagine. From ThisIsGloucestershire, one of the most tenuous articles TheEye has spotted in years.

Might as well quote the whole thing so that you don't think you're missing anything of the detail:

OWNERS of parrot Seve Ballesteros have today said they were shocked at news of the death of their pet's namesake.

Taffy Howells, who named six-year-old parrot Seve Ballesteros after the "the king of European golf", said: "I heard the news this morning.

"I was shocked really. I was really really upset.

"He's been an ambassador for golf. He won three majors".

Taffy, from Linden, added that his parrot was still doing well.

"He's not behaving himself though," he added.

Seve Ballesteros died at his home in Spain. He was 54.

He had fought a long battle after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2008.

He passed away in the early hours of this morning due to respiratory failure.

Splendid. The family will have felt so honoured.

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Question Time LiveBlog 12th May 2011

Tonight, Question Time comes from Shefffield; described by George Orwell as "the ugliest town in the Old World". Once the only city with a national park within its boundary (since 2010 it isn't) and unsuccessfully nominated as UK City of Culture (2010 again; bad year, eh guys?) things haven't been looking so good recently. Losing to Londonderry too. You'd almost feel sorry for them except for the fact you don't.

You may want to sit down before reading about a panel of...wait for it...John "Vince" Cable, serial shagger David Blindgit, the only occasionally rational Tory MP Anna Soubry, someone called James O'Brien and twisted Nazi uniform whipping prostitute-fetishist Max Mosley.

The LiveBlog will stay open for the surreal This Week, with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo.

To be fair, I've talked myself out of watching this whole evening and I'm supposed to be moderating the Chat. Oh dear.

TheEye and David Mosque will be moderating the abuse here from 10:30pm. See you here! Probably.

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Spooky Tales

TheEye - cursed with 24 hours of spirit-crushing nonsense, can only offer a ridiculous post today. In contrast to a spectacular charge when co-conspirator and all round top bloke Max Farquar got 130,000 hits in a single day, TheEye has been dealing with local government bureaucracy and pencil-pushers with repressed daddy issues and too much time on their hands.

Ah, who cares? Or c'est la vie as you'd say in France....or, in this part of the world, tu madre tiene un bigote.

Just enjoy a random spot from the utterly birdcage-lining joy that is Kent Online: Ghostly face appears in man's Dyson

"Jesus is the most common person to feature in objects like socks, toast, a field, a biscuit, a tea towel, a Kit-Kat, a frying pan and in a jar of Marmite."

Fellow blogger here St Crispin will be making a long overdue return to Gibraltar soon from Places Sandy and Goat Infested. Can't wait...

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Osama - The "Real" Story

For our overseas readers who don't know, the Sunday Sport is the lowest of the low when it comes to newspapers. The most embarrassing of UK tabloid rubbish. It makes the National Enquirer in the US look professional. Relaunched today and don't you wish it hadn't been.

So, in keeping with the post below and again with thanks to that splendid chap microdave...AllSeeingEye brings you the not-online story that the world has been waiting for.

...without realising that you were.

Wait for the punchline....wait for it....

...wait for it....

Nothing in the world can take back the time you've just spent thinking about that.

No charge.

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Spot The Difference

Intrepid global scoop-seeker microdave has been in bloodhound mode today. Seeking out the hottest news on the stands. And today it is....the relaunched Sunday Sport.

We've documented microdave's dash between petrol stations for a copy and we've been spellbound during his between-meals search for truth. Awesome stuff.

And here it is. The Sunday Sport Spot The Difference Competition.

Answers in the Comments!

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Of Referenda and Independence

TheEye has threatened promised a very occasional series of old pictures from my home of Gibraltar. The first showed searchlights over the Rock in 1940, and here's the next installment from the archives.

Inspired by Subrosa's very successful first LiveChat which saw the SNP sweep to power in Scotland on an 'independence' ticket. TheEye recalls when the shoe was on the other foot down here. When a referendum was held locally on whether to drop British rule and throw our lot in with the Spanish.

1967 was the year, and Gibraltarians chose to remain British by 12138 votes to only 44 votes to change to Spanish nationality. Truly a result that even Mugabe would envy.

The situation is completely different of course, but, well....any excuse for a trip down memory lane.

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With Us Or Against Us

From IHateTheMedia:

When George Bush said, “You’re either with us or you’re against us,” he knew exactly what he was talking about.

Here’s how two Melbourne, Australia newspapers headlined the Bin Laden assassination in side-by-side street racks.

What have Osama bin Laden and Maddie got in common?

Both had their back door smashed in before being dumped at the bottom of the ocean.

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In All Good Newsagents...

Today sees the return of the much-missed Sunday Sport...following a deal with its founder David Sullivan. According to Popbitch, it's going to be a classic:

The Sunday Sport is back this weekend. They say you can expect to see "a topless 51-stone woman who yearns to be 60-stone, a Royal porn scandal and a Premier League footballer who paid a hooker £5,000 to poo on his chest".

It won't be on the shelves here in Gibraltar though...informed and erudite literary reviews welcome here, please!

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How Many Years Make A "Tradition"?

...so how many years makes for a "tradition"? With the BBC; not so many when it suits them.

Number 10 shuns EU flag tradition

Downing Street will not fly the EU flag over Number 10 during Europe Day on Monday unlike previous years, the BBC has learned.

The Royal Wedding...traditional. Morris dancing...traditional. Flying the EU flag? Meh.

The UK's relationship with Europe is a potential source of tension between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition partners.

Making an uncalled for political point about the whole thing the BBCs own Laura Kuenssberg tweets:

No 10, FCO + Treasury decide not to fly EU flag for Europe day on Monday, but Vince’s BIS dept will! (DECC conviently has no flagpole)

Really? The Coalition must be doomed. Doooomed! The BBC - looking for splits wherever they can...

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Bye Bye to Yes

There are plenty of websites dedicated to crowing over the victory of the NO campaign in the AV referendum...and many YES sites still crying into their FairTrade lattes.

As a tech, though, TheEye is simply going to make a tech point. Bye bye yestofairervotes.org without even a final concession post. Oh well. Rude during the debate and rude after it.

Just like the first Mrs Eye...not even a goodbye note with some decent swearing in it...

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QT and Elections LiveChat (Pt1)

Welcome to the LiveChat which is a 5th May Election Special.

We kick off with the return of Question Time; which tonight comes from the last BBC option "damn I can't claim decent expenses from here" of London.

On the panel we have Secretary of State for Transport and Conservative dark horse Philip Hammond, Andy Burnham, Paddy Pantsdown, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Douglas Murray. Really? Are the same dozen people always on speed-dial?

Immediately afterwards we have the local election results and lots of idle speculation about the result of the AV referendum.

Unfortunately we won't get David Vance's result until Friday morning so the champagne will have to stay on ice.

As it's such a big night we're going to split the Chat tonight. If you want to take part in the QuestionTime and England/Wales/NI election results then this Chat is where you want to be. If you want a Scotland twist to your evening then use the Chat window in the post below.

The Chat tonight reflects the different voting areas, and is hosted on Biased-BBC, AllSeeingEye, MaxFarquar and QT stalwart Subrosa's blog. Moderating will be AllSeeingEye, Subrosa, Max Farquar and David Mosque, and both chats will go on until people fade away though tiredness or wine.

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QT and Elections LiveChat (Pt2)

This post has been split so that if you want to follow both LiveChats at the same time you can easily open the two posts in two different windows and put them alongside each other.

Cunning thinking, eh?

This Scottish-oriented Chat is being hosted and moderated by Subrosa although you can't escape the grim glare of TheEye's moderating touch here either.

Many thanks to MaxFarquar for the two excellent logos we've used here tonight.

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Show Us The Pictures

Today, Obama has said that he won't release pictures showing the dead body of Osama Bin Laden, or pictures of him about to be buried off the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (coincidentally, an anagram of Osama Bin Laden is "Lob da man in sea". Odd, eh?)

He's supported by Representative Mike Rogers, who is the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

“The risks of release outweigh the benefits,” Rogers said. “Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East.”

“Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaeda killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet,” Rogers continued.

Oh, really? So despite all of the evidence, the Western public are on the same level of intellectual reasoning as those who burn churches and behead people in revenge for a cartoon being published in Denmark? Or send third-rate author Salman Rushdie into years of taxpayer-funded hotels hiding?

Graphic images of hostages being held (and sometimes beheaded) mostly provoked not outrage but comments about how daft they were to have walked into a dangerous warzone clutching just an NUJ wallet card and a week-old copy of the Guardian for protection.

Obama (and Rogers) are not better and smarter than the rest of the Western world. We can make value judgements ourselves. We've seen thousands of civilians killed by Jihadists and pictures of innocent people on fire jumping to their own deaths from tall buildings. When the man-in-the-street has fought back it's been via free speech (Everyone Draw Mohammed Day is back on the 20th of May...put it in your diaries) and not petrol bombs.

Even with his death being witnessed and reported by his own daughter we're doomed to decades of bin Laden being spotted grocery shopping with Elvis.

'Public opinion' in the Middle East is 'inflamed' anyway. Releasing the pictures will make no real difference here or there. But it will make the sales of tin-foil hats plummet.

Show us the pictures. We can take it.

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And So the Osama 'Downfall' Clips Begin

No, not the one that Max Farquar, Christopher Conservative Perspective and Angry Exile have but another one...and also very good:



This one is especially good because...in a sign of quality Downfall efforts...they seamlessly sync "Stalin" at the right moment.

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Stupid Inventions

Designer Dominic Wilcox has come up with a Pinocchio-style 'finger-nose stylus' that lets you use your phone hands free, reports Wired.

He came up with the design after he found that he wanted to use his touchphone in the bath. A wet hand is not a good touchscreen navigation device and he found himself using his nose to scroll. But he found it hard to see precisely where his nose was touching the screen.

His idea was to create a nose extension 'finger' that would allow for navigation while holding the phone firmly in his one dry hand or - to put it another way - in his one not-masturbating hand.

Because that, surely, is the only use for the thing.

Wilcox has a track record for creating extraordinary items such as luxury skimming stones that are covered in 24ct gold leaf and contained within a leather pouch. He has also created stickers that can be placed on bikes or cars to make them look as though they are rusty and old as an anti-theft device. Another notable product is "War Bowl", a bowl made out of melted plastic toy soldiers.

He needs to up his medication. Quickly.

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Handcuffs

If you're going to handcuff someone to something - try to pick a fixed object:

He's been recaptured, apparently, but there's no news on the fate of the chair.

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BBC React To Bin Laden's Death

As a contributor over on Biased BBC too it'd be fun to put it up there...but...

Over on A Tangled Web, David Vance has re-used the Sun's "Gotcha!" headline from the Belgrano sinking. TheEye prefers "Bin Strike!"

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Bin Laden Dead

Woke up this morning to hear the news that the world's most hated man was dead. Imagine TheEye's disappointment when it turns out it wasn't Bono.

Well well well. One dodgy birth certificate produced and Bin laden dead. Anyone would think there was a squeaky Presidential election coming up, wouldn't they?

He was living in a great big mansion just next door to a military base too. But the Pakistanis didn't notice? Colour us surprised. Two-faced lying bastards. Perhaps the large wedge of money handed over to them last week had a result after all?

The BBC has been showing a rolling obituary all morning which better suits a head of state or great friend of the world which is...typical. Take this sentence as an example "'To his supporters, Bin Laden was a fighter for freedom against the US and Israel, not, as he was to many in the West, a terrorist with the blood of thousands of people on his hands.'" It's about time that lot were shot too.

TheEye calls dibs on the film rights though. Samuel L. Jackson as Obama. Morgan Freeman is getting on a bit now and is too busy as Mandela's stuntman.

Too soon to suggest that Madeline McCann is now the undisputed World Hide And Seek Champion?

Yes, probably too soon.

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5th May LiveChat for QT and Election Results

As usual on Thursday we'll be bringing you the Question Time LiveChat session. But as it's also Local Election results night we're going to extend the chat to cover that as well.

So we'll start at 10:30pm as usual and finish up whenever the last wibbling drunk can't type any longer.

The AV Referendum count won't be happening until the next day because they haven't yet bought the voting machines that the utterly dishonest Electoral Reform Society claim not to be selling. But there will still be plenty of AV uninformed speculation and pointless rehashing of lies for us to pick over like the dregs of a goat curry.

As we're covering the elections, we'll be spreading the chat live across Biased-BBC, AllSeeingEye, MaxFarquar and a few others to be finalised. Thanks go to Max for the excellent logo designed for the night.

At some time during the night we should be celebrating our very own David Vance's election as a NI Assembly member so keep the champagne chilled for that moment.

See you all here on Thursday night...

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