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THE JOY OF TEXTS

In the online version of Private Eye:
- Leveson round up... What Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks did (and did not) say
- Best of enemies... Why Murdoch fan Michael Gove gets such an easy ride from Labour
- Olympic folly... Britain’s volunteer knitters are stitched up due to ‘commercial sponsors’

In the latest edition of the magazine:
- Arming Bahrain: Despite a partial ban, UK arms exports actually increased last year.
- Fact & friction: BBC in the dock over a Silent Witness that was too close to real life
- Tax special: How PwC pushes UK corporate tax avoidance on an industrial scale

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Next issue on sale: 29th May.

LOL – IT’S LOTS OF LEVESON!

IN HER written evidence to the Leveson inquiry, Rebekah Brooks lists all the meetings she had with prime ministers and cabinet ministers, all the way back to 1996, including no fewer than 15 chinwags with David Blunkett. But there is no entry for 2 November 2005. Shome mishtake, shurely?

BY GOVE! A LABOUR-TORY TRUCE…

IS the threat of mutually assured destruction keeping a lid on the Murdoch scandal? Westminster hacks note that Tom Baldwin, Ed Miliband’s spin-doctor and a former Times reporter, declines all invitations to attack education secretary Michael Gove, another ex-Times man and Baldwin’s former news editor.

LOCOG’S OLYMPIC KNITWITS

IN a triumph of commercialism over Big Society volunteering, thousands of cushions handcrafted from British wool for Olympic and Paralympic competitors by volunteers around the UK are trapped in limbo after Olympic chiefs scrapped arrangements for giving the cushions to the athletes.

£20bnCuts to NHS which government says are unavoidable

£75bnEmergency loans to Royal Bank of Scotland which were fully repaid to government last week

Vodafone’s Swiss Swizz

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It’s all in your Currant Bung…

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From the Daily Chain Mail…

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Salem Witch Trial, Day 94… Me And My Spoon, with HRH Prince Michael of Kent… Shortages to Continue Despite Record Floods, Say Water Chiefs… George Galloway and his soft furnishings, as told to Craig Brown… Oedipus Rex The Economy – Those Greek Tragedies in Full… Joey Barton Picked as England’s Euro Captain…

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Issue No: 1314
In The Shops: 15th May 2012
Price: £1.50