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“Who was Jesse Jackson?”
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“Self-driving taxis safe” says self-writing article.
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PLUS news from the Rotten Boroughs of Reading, Durham, Canterbury, Bedford, and Aberdeen in the new Eye. AND a Reform round-up.
Government says police and crime commissioners are a “failed experiment”, with the system due to be scrapped soon.
Given the shenanigans at Hertfordshire’s Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, with bullying claims, cronyism, unprecedented staff jollies and hotel bills, the cull is overdue.
If it’s good enough for a Jedi…
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Trump: My war has a clear objective which I've already achieved. I have killed the Epstein story.
New Private Eye on shelves now.
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Recent university graduates entering a tough jobs market have spoken of the brutal interest rates on the loans they took out to fund their degree from The Bank of Mum and Dad.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Coincidence corner: JCB and Reform UK
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Plumber wins by-election for Greens
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A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
Now Mandelson’s Global Counsel will no longer be holding dinners for its clients, top civil servants and politicos, will there be fewer lobbyist-brokered meetings with government? Hospitality registers for new cabinet secretary Antonia Romeo suggest not.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
MD’s latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
➡️ ALL parts of our special report into the Lucy Letby case are now available online: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...
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Letby’s new barrister has found experts willing to do so but they have only been tested in press conferences, not the appeal court. In a case as circumstantial as this, finding the right experts is as important as finding the right barrister. And then you have to put them on the stand.
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The waiver was needed to see why her defence, led by Benjamin Myers, called no expert witnesses - likely because none were prepared to argue against the insulin poisonings.
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A clue came in a rare statement from chair Dame Vera Baird: the CCRC asked Letby to waive legal privilege on 13 February last year “to allow access to defence files” but didn’t receive it until 11 December.
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Why is the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) taking so long to decide whether to refer Lucy Letby’s conviction back to the appeal court?
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Number crunching: Swing against Labour
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”
Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…
The new Private Eye is out now.
IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays.
The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…
Only two weeks remain to apply for the Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.
Submit your entry by noon, Tuesday 17th March 2026.
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A reader writes...
"Sir, Some point to your famous 2011 Fergie sells girls cover as an early sign if trouble. I'd go further back. This is from your 1982-1985 book The Secret Diary of a Lord Gnome"
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"They died to save her face"
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 550, January 1983, some months after the Falklands war.
Why was Andrew Mountbatten Windsor named immediately after his arrest?
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For the latest on bullying solicitor Andrew Milne, pick up a copy of the latest Eye, in shops now.
“It’s a cross between journalism and voodoo dolls.”
Ian Hislop explains the Private Eye cover that predicted Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s arrest.
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Just how bonkers were the legal proceedings issued by recently sanctioned solicitor Andrew Milne as he tried to extract money from, it seems, almost anyone unfortunate enough to be in a contract with him?
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🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW
This week: A Tale of Two Andrews
Ian, Adam, Andy and Rachael Claye discuss two men named Andrew - one who used to be a prince, and one who’s still a solicitor with a very dubious practice.
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