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

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

Labour’s Identity Crisis

The new Private Eye is out now.

A photo of the front cover of issue 1659 of Private Eye magazine with the caption “on shelves now.” The front cover headline reads “Labour’s Identity Crisis” and shows Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham talking. Burnham says, “I would like to lead the Labour Party,” to which Starmer replies, “So would I.”

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 6h

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW

This week: Bishops, Buggers and Health Freaks

Adam, Ian and Jane discuss the new Archbishop of Canterbury, the police forces prepared to break the rules to look after their own, and RFK Jr’s very peculiar ideas about Making America Healthy Again.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d

The Labibi looks harmless enough, but has proved extremely dangerous to children. And adults. The Labibi craze threatens to be with us for some time yet, but consumers are advised to avoid it at all costs.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce

For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine.

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Private Eye | Kemi Badenoch : Hard-right turn

TORY leader Kemi Badenoch tried to grab some US far-right energy last week by publicly meeting with Turning Point UK (TPUK) to mourn assassinated US activist Charlie Kirk, a close ally of Donald Trump...

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

TPUK’s efforts to build a similar movement among university students over here failed miserably, and instead it now arranges foul-mouthed street protests with groups of “patriots”.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

TPUK is the British wing of Kirk’s group, Turning Point USA, which claims to be the “largest Conservative student movement” in the US with groups at more than 3,500 universities and high schools.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tried to grab some US far-right energy recently by publicly meeting with Turning Point UK (TPUK) to mourn assassinated US activist Charlie Kirk, a close ally of Donald Trump.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 2d

Dumb Britain, in every issue of the mag, collates the best real answers given on real quiz shows, by real contestants.

Walsh: Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister is a book about which female prime minister?
Contestant: Margaret Thatcher.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 4d

Subscribe to Private Eye today and get the next issue delivered direct to your door.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 4d

“Clever, isn’t he?”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5d

Britain celebrates 200 years of the railways

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5d

PLUS news from the Rotten Boroughs of Rottingdean, Norwich, Somerset, Glasgow, Sheffield, and Leicestershire. AS WELL AS a Reform round-up.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5d

A whiff of whitewashing in Newcastle, as the council has refused to publish a long-awaited taxpayer-funded £74,000 investigation into claims Labour ex-leader Nick Kemp bullied an officer.

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 5d

What did the Eye's TV critic make of The Hack, ITV's new seven-part drama about the phone-hacking scandals?

Pick up a copy of the new Private Eye to find out.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 6d

Number crunching: Redundancies at Manchester United which the Mirror described as part of ‘brutal cost-cutting exercises’ v redundancies announced by Mirror owner Retch plc last month.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 6d

Visions of the future

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 6d

Today, a company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone was told it must repay the government £122m for breaching a contract for medical gowns during the Covid pandemic.

Read our special report online on some of the other fat cats who made a mint during covid.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 6d

Labour Together faces revived accusations that it used unreported donor cash to help make Keir Starmer leader, and its busy Liverpool conference schedule shows how reliant the centrist group now is on sponsorship from banks, corporations and lobbyists.

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

Labour’s Identity Crisis

The new Private Eye is out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

➡️ Read all previous parts of our special report into the Lucy Letby case online: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

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Special Report: The Lessons of the Lucy Letby Case

After Lucy Letby was convicted in August 2023 of murdering seven babies, a number of experts contacted Eye columnist MD because they

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

The international experts who challenge his findings are “hired guns” and – even worse – “Americans and Canadians”.

MD’s latest on the Lucy Letby case, only in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

The lead prosecution expert declared the neonatal nurse to be “evil” and “guilty as sin”. He dismissed the Eye (“that well known scientific journal”) as being part of the “great metropolitan elite” and “God’s most entitled”.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

Lucy Letby – Murder or Mistake? (Channel 4, 29 September) was pretty much the Dewi Evans show, writes MD in the latest Eye.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

“Remember: don’t worry about the minimal contact hours…”

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 7d

Labour’s Identity Crisis

The new Private Eye is out now.

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