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RETCH'S WRETCHES
The brave new world of Reach plc, with its new AI-aided system where copy is shared across many titles, has not gone down well with its remaining readers.

BIG ROTHER IS WATCHING…
The Mail group insists its planned takeover of the Telegraph would "give much-needed confidence" to the paper's employees, but many mysteries remain.

STIR CRAZY
One inmate at the Sodexo-run HMP Peterborough laments that he is not being allowed to read Private Eye.

PIERCE'S PETARD
While fulminating against the BBC for misquoting Donald Trump, Daily Mail columnist Andrew Pierce managed to, er, misquote the BBC.

WE'RE GLOOMED!
Peter Hitchens seems to have grown gloomier than ever in recent months, judging by his Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday columns.

AI AND THE EYE
The boss of Google's parent company says we shouldn't trust AI – and what Google's AI Overview says about Private Eye's ownership backs him up.

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Pound of flesh
The Home Office's shady money-saving wheeze

Position of power
Which energy companies are too big to fail?

Paper travails
All change at Reach plc and the Telegraph

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