Number Crunching36%
Rise in Serco’s profits in 2020, enabling £17m dividend to be paid to shareholders
41%
Close contacts not reached by Serco Test & Trace up to November (when measuring system changed)
PRIVATE EYE PODCAST
Catching Up and Cap'n Bob
Episode 59. Jane Mackenzie reveals how the government’s catch-up tutoring programme for Covid-hit schools is going to work (or not work), and Ian Hislop and Francis Wheen discuss the suddenly fashionable Robert Maxwell and his habit of putting on the writs.
In This Issue
Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveils give-and-take away Fudget… Prince Charmless gives interview to jester – Nursery Times Exclusive… Top IRA man confesses to being undercover editor of national newspaper… ‘He’s barking most of the time… but I stand by him’ – Downing Street Top Dog Dilyn on life with the PM… Is Rachel Johnson’s article about cutting her husband’s hair too long and should it be cut?... Europeans now refuse vaccine they were angry about not getting enough of in the first place… Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries, 1917-1938, as told to Craig Brown
Behavioural insight How the nudgers are feathering their Nesta
African oddity Andrew ‘Thrasher’ Mitchell’s unlovely chums in Rwanda