HIS FOX IS SHOT…
Fox News ‘terror expert’ Steve Emerson is sorry for saying Birmingham is ‘Muslim-only’ – but he’s not always been so contrite or so honest.

LIFE MISINTERPRETING ART
Private Eye’s Sir Herbert Gussett (NB: an absurd fictional character), sparks a real-life Twitter storm in the US when his words are taken, er, literally.

NOT SO SILENT WITNESS
BBC London takes the plugging of BBC shows in ‘news’ broadcasts to dizzy new lows with a craven plug for a new series of Silent Witness.

WORLD OF SPORT
With backing from PaddyPower, crowdfunders and PR flacks, David Ginola’s bid to unseat Sepp Blatter at Fifa is less principled than billed.

AMBER WARNING
Labour says it now favours traffic light labels on food – an idea it junked last time it was in power under pressure from a sweet-toothed industry.

PLUS: More Ad Nauseam, Dumb Britain, Modern last words & more.

Saudi Flogging Row – ‘We’ll Flog Them Anything’ Vows Government… New From Gnome – The Pope Punch Bag… Chilcot Report Found on Mars… Nick Clegg Backs Plan to Reduce Career Suicides… Eye Rebranded as the ‘Coca-Cola Eye’… ‘Je Suis un Charlie’: Prince Charles Latest… Lady Antonia Fraser’s Diary, as told to Craig Brown

And also...

- Cartoon special: Eye cartoonists respond to world events, then and now.
- Censor sensibilities: From India to Ecuador, the crackdown on irreverence and dissent
- Palace coo! The Kensington properties owned by the Queen but leased offshore
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Next issue on sale: 3rd February 2015.