In the latest edition of the magazine: - Gong fishing: Extraordinary ordinary people on the honours list
- Day of the Jackal: Why the Taliban loves the MoD’s latest vehicle
- It’s Hobbit forming: Another tome spills out from Middle Earth Inc.
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POLICE 5: DON’T CALL US…
TELEPHONING the police can be expensive enough since most forces switched to using 0845 numbers for non-emergencies. Now two forces are refusing even to divulge their local phone numbers, claiming that if people know how to contact them, they won’t be able to fight crime properly.
YOU’VE BEEN AHMADINEJ’AD...
OUTSIDE Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s home town of Garmsar is a placard proclaiming him as “the popular president”. The election shows how very true that is. As Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Friday prayers in Tehran, Mr Ahmadinejad’s margin of victory was so big at 11m it couldn’t possibly have been rigged. Or could it?
THE DIGGER PICTURE
RUPERT MURDOCH’s patience with Gordon Brown is wearing thin. His British papers have called repeatedly for an early general election – to the PM’s mounting alarm. Brown was so upset, he was on “non-speakers” with the Sun at the start of June, only relenting to attend Rebekah Wade’s wedding.
ON STAGE AT THE
NATIONAL THEATRE
Private Eye comes to life at the Lyttelton in readings
from the Private Eye Annual 2008 by Ian Hislop, Harry
Enfield, John Sessions, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens, Richard
Ingrams and Craig Brown
PLUS: Iraq War Inquiry ‘Over By Christmas’… Simon Cowell’s new big-money game: SuBo-Ku!... Mail asks: Could Wheelie Bin Nightmare Cause House Price Meltdown?... MP Claimed 99p For Roll of 10 Bin Liners And Only Used 8…Isaiah Berlin’s diary, as told to Craig Brown
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