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Private Eye Magazine

@PrivateEyeNews

Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism. private-eye.co.uk. Subscribe: subsonline.co.uk

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Private Eye Magazine
@PrivateEyeNews
Feb 3
Private Eye is the UK's number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine, offering a unique blend of humour, social and political observations and investigative journalism. ➡️ Subscribe to Private Eye today - 26 issue for just £52! subsonline.co.uk
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Jan 19, 2022
Downing Street officials offered to waive restrictions on mourners for Prince Philip’s funeral. The Queen refused, on the grounds she wanted to set an example rather than be an exception to the rules. So they threw two parties instead. Full story in the brand new Private Eye.
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Dec 8, 2021
Why is the Sun’s coverage of the Downing Street Christmas party story so muted? Could it be because on the very same night in December 2020, the paper was hosting a rule-busting boozy bash of its own? Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.
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Feb 2, 2022
The Department of Health insists it paid £600m to an interior design company for PPE. The money is nowhere to be seen in the firm’s accounts. They won’t answer the Eye’s questions. So where’s the money gone? Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.
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Jul 27, 2022
All change: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!
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Mar 2, 2022
9 years after the Eye exposed rampant Russian money-laundering in London and 6 years since we revealed the scale of anonymous offshore ownership of UK property, it takes a war to finally make the government take action. Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.
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May 27, 2024
So. Farewell then, Nadhim Zahawi, who, just days after the last Eye asked when he might take the hint and resign as MP for Stratford-on-Avon, has done precisely that. Zahawi's resignation letter ran through his greatest hits without mentioning his tax blunders or expenses claims
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Private Eye Magazine
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Feb 6, 2021
It is important when comparing statistics to use the same range on each Y-axis, otherwise you are just putting two things next to each other that look silly.
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Feb 5, 2021
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Jul 27, 2022
Why wasn’t Starmer fined for boozing in office, demands furious Daily Mail - whose editor the Eye has video of at, er, a boozy office celebration while Covid rules were in force? Full story in the brand new Private Eye, in shops today.
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Oct 18, 2023
The new Private Eye (for an eye) is on sale now.
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Apr 27, 2022
A mysterious one-day directorship, a £491k loan, a Cayman Island firm specifically designed to keep banking bonuses offshore and a flat refusal to answer the Eye’s question about any of it: the new Eye attempts to untangle the issues around Sajid Javid’s dubious non-dom status.
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Aug 28, 2024
“My Tesla keeps veering to the far right” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Sep 17, 2021
Revealed: the Tory donor whose clothing company made a £16.4m profit on the facemask contract it bagged through the government’s VIP fast lane - with dividends carefully channelled through Jersey ensuring not too much tax would go back to the NHS! Details in the new Private Eye.
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Private Eye Magazine
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Aug 20, 2025
“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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