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=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. 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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. 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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-1683/current-issue#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce&issue=1683 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce&issue=1683&GUID=558 BIG tech certainly has an ally in Andy Burnham’s choice of chair for his AI taskforce. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1683 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1683&GUID=558 “IF I had any clue that anything remotely like this was even possible, I would never have got involved in supporting Trump in the first place and I’m very ashamed that I did,” announced an apparently contrite Milo Yiannopoulos recently after the previously rabid MAGA-ist fell foul of his own hero’s policies and was forcibly removed from the US. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1683 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1683&GUID=558 AS PM-in-waiting in mid-July, Andy Burnham reportedly told Labour MPs Britain had become an “outsourced state with little accountability” and he wanted to see more “insourcing”. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1683 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/crossword&GUID=558 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/crossword#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1683 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/cartoons&GUID=558 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/cartoons#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1683 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/lookalikes&GUID=558 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/lookalikes#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1683 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/columnists&GUID=558 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1683/columnists#Comments Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMT