The UK's number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine, edited by Ian Hislop https://www.private-eye.co.uk Copyright Private Eye https://www.private-eye.co.uk/?issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/current-issue&GUID=546 Find out whats in the latest edition of Private Eye. Selected highlights from the UK's number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine including our top stories, cartoons, the Eye crossword, Dumb Britain, Lookalikes, Colemanballs and much more. Plus added extras including our online shop for subscriptions offers, binders and back issues plus the eyePlayer, Covers Library, Blog and Classifieds. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/current-issue#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1672&GUID=546 THE family of a desperately ill man who died in a tormented state after being prescribed cannabis costing up to £1,000 a month by a UK clinic is launching a campaign for legal reform to rein in the unregulated industry. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1672&GUID=546 DONALD TRUMP has been less than consistent with his messaging on the war on Iran. So why shouldnt the UK press be too? https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1672&GUID=546 Old Sparky writes: ENERGY secretary Ed Miliband is determined not to let a good crisis go to waste, proclaiming it to be a reason for pouring even more money into building wind and solar farms. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/crossword&GUID=546 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/crossword#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/cartoons&GUID=546 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/cartoons#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/lookalikes&GUID=546 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1672 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/columnists&GUID=546 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1672/columnists#Comments Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/?issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/current-issue&GUID=545 Find out whats in the latest edition of Private Eye. Selected highlights from the UK's number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine including our top stories, cartoons, the Eye crossword, Dumb Britain, Lookalikes, Colemanballs and much more. Plus added extras including our online shop for subscriptions offers, binders and back issues plus the eyePlayer, Covers Library, Blog and Classifieds. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/current-issue#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1671&GUID=545 THE Foreign Office has discouraged colleagues of SOAS postgraduate student Zhang Yadi, detained and missing in China since last summer, from speaking out, telling them the case is more effectively pursued through private diplomatic channels. But more than six months after her detention, theres little sign of any activity from the UK government. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1671&GUID=545 COVERAGE of German publisher Axel Springers last-minute swoop to take the Telegraph titles from under the nose of Lord Rothermere has concentrated largely on how the papers will fare under an avowedly pro-European owner. But Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner may be a better fit for the ever-more reactionary broadsheet than many realise. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1671&GUID=545 Hedgehog writes... NIGEL FARAGE and other MPs who reacted to the surge in oil prices by criticising the governments planned increase in fuel duty presumably havent noticed that ministers dont control pump prices. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/crossword&GUID=545 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/crossword#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/cartoons&GUID=545 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/cartoons#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/lookalikes&GUID=545 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1671 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/columnists&GUID=545 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1671/columnists#Comments Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/?issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/current-issue&GUID=544 Find out whats in the latest edition of Private Eye. Selected highlights from the UK's number one best-selling news and current affairs magazine including our top stories, cartoons, the Eye crossword, Dumb Britain, Lookalikes, Colemanballs and much more. Plus added extras including our online shop for subscriptions offers, binders and back issues plus the eyePlayer, Covers Library, Blog and Classifieds. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/current-issue#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1670&GUID=544 IN A somewhat bewildering pairing, former foreign secretary William Hague teamed up with actress Angelina Jolie in 2012 to launch the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative, which is still going today. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1670&GUID=544 ‘Gold Digger writes… THE criminal is the creative artist, write George Cottrell and Lawrence Burke-Files in the first chapter of their new book How to Launder Money, the detective only the critic. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1670&GUID=544 HOW did the Mail on Sunday come by its exclusive scoop, three days after her ex-husbands arrest, that Sarah Ferguson had spent most of January hiding out at a £13,000-a-night health spa in Switzerland? https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/crossword&GUID=544 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/crossword#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/cartoons&GUID=544 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/cartoons#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/lookalikes&GUID=544 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1670 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/columnists&GUID=544 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1670/columnists#Comments Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:00 GMT