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=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/current-issue&GUID=561 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-1686/current-issue#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1686&GUID=561 DANNY Major was a rookie police constable in 2003 when he claims he was fitted up by colleagues for a vicious pasting doled out to a drunken suspect being held in a Leeds custody suite. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce&issue=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce&issue=1686&GUID=561 SINCE his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than �£25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1686&GUID=561 ‘Lady Liberty’ writes... IN THE end, she lasted just 0.45 Scaramuccis. “I was given the offer last Wednesday,” Katie Zacharia told Fox News’s Sean Hannity after her first �" and, it would turn out, only �" briefing as White House press secretary. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/crossword&GUID=561 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/crossword#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/cartoons&GUID=561 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/cartoons#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/lookalikes&GUID=561 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1686 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/columnists&GUID=561 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1686/columnists#Comments Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/?issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/current-issue&GUID=560 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-1685/current-issue#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1685&GUID=560 THE Wellcome Trust was set up to improve the health of humans, animals and the environment and is now the UK’s richest charity, with �£35.7bn assets. Among its highly varied portfolio of investments is Brighton Marina, owned by its subsidiary, Premier Marinas. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1685&GUID=560 Gold Digger writes… TAX exile Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe loves complaining about anything �" from high energy prices to taxes �" that doesn’t suit him. But he’s more forgetful about the British economic policies and fortuitous conditions that have bestowed vast riches on him. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1685&GUID=560 “I COME across in the most despicable manner imaginable,” announced Piers “Morgan” Moron on his YouTube show on 22 September. A rare moment of self-awareness? https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/crossword&GUID=560 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/crossword#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/cartoons&GUID=560 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/cartoons#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/lookalikes&GUID=560 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1685 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/columnists&GUID=560 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1685/columnists#Comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/?issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/current-issue&GUID=559 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-1684/current-issue#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1684&GUID=559 BILLIONAIRE Chris Rokos must be hoping he gets better advice on his offshore flit to Greece than he has on previous tax ruses. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1684&GUID=559 MOST of the world’s population lives in countries run by an authoritarian government. Ever in the vanguard, Venezuela has two. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1684&GUID=559 “HIS Majesty is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgement and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss,” was the response from Buckingham Palace to Earl Spencer’s shocking claim in his new book that the King “went nuts” in a phone call shortly after his ex-wife Diana’s death and told her brother “we’ll forget her soon enough”. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/crossword&GUID=559 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/crossword#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/cartoons&GUID=559 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/cartoons#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/lookalikes&GUID=559 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1684 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/columnists&GUID=559 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1684/columnists#Comments Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT