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SIR FRED FIGHTS TO KEEP TITLE

In the online version of Private Eye:
- Tabloid hero... Why a new-look PCC could be led by... Percy Parsnip!
- Fit to work... Atos and the disability tests that aren’t fit for purpose
- Legover man’s legacy… More on Boris Island and other mayoral fantasies

In the latest edition of the magazine:
- Tax haven Britain: Open for business (but don’t count the tax receipts yet)
- Gas in them thar hills: Why the UK is suddenly interested in ‘fracking’ (or not)
-Don’t Be Evil? Google’s data base behaviour in Kenya
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Next issue on sale: 7th February.

FINE WORDS BUTTER A PARSNIP

HOW can the troubled tabloids see off Lord Justice Leveson and his pesky inquiry? A cunning plan is being hatched by Mail supremo Paul Dacre and the Telegraph Media Group’s executive director Lord (Guy) Black.

BORIS’S FANTASY ISLAND

NEWS that David Cameron is now in favour of “Boris Island” airport – at least in principle – has of course nothing to do with the rapid approach of the London mayoral election in May. Er, or has it?

SHITS IN THE DARK…

IN THE Eye’s growing post-bag of appalling decisions made by French service company Atos in assessing sick and disabled people as being “fit for work”, one of the most shocking concerns Keith Tilbury.

430,800Barrels of Iranian oil per day Europe will cease to buy from July in ‘most significant toughening of sanctions to date’

68,497,200Barrels of Iranian oil it will continue to import until July ‘to reduce impact on weaker European economies’

Why Boris Island is a corker!

Audio - 01:30

Rats make shock claim…

Audio - 01:00

The Iron Laddy and Bore Horse reviewed

Audio - 02:23


‘Crew left ship before us’ – rats’ shock claim... My fifteen minutes of fame, by Max Hastings… Film Highlights on Bore Horse and Midnight Excess... What you didn’t miss: Simon Armitage’s Death of King Arthur… Alain de Botton On The Buses (as told to Craig Brown)

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Issue No: 1306
In The Shops: 24th January 2012
Price: £1.50