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LABOUR LOVE-BOMBING
Team Starmer's stance on Gaza is undermined by its enthusiasm for the arms industry supplying Israel, including European missile maker MBDA.

WATER VAPOURS
The environment secretary's officials are cross about anybody questioning his claim it would cost £100bn to nationalise the water companies, as the Eye did.

POST WASTE
Post Office and government spending on external lawyers to deal with the Horizon scandal and compensation has topped £350m, the Eye can reveal.

ARREST DEVELOPMENT
After a man was arrested for displaying a Private Eye gag at a silent march, the next weekend's protest featured dozens of copies of the Eye's gag.

US EYE
CBS may have capitulated recently after a shakedown by Donald Trump – but has the US president now met his match in the shape of Rupert Murdoch?

SLOP & SEARCH
Google has launched its new AI Mode in the UK, relying on results generated by its Gemini AI – but the timing of the launch could have been better.

SOVEREIGN STEALTH
The government's claim that its "memorandum of understanding" with OpenAI will "support the UK's goal to build sovereign AI in the UK" is an odd one.

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