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=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/current-issue&GUID=553 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-1678/current-issue#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1678&GUID=553 The success of the record-breaking SpaceX flotation, with the share price shooting up like Elon Musk’s right arm at a Donald Trump rally, was no great surprise. It also gives a pointer to the way the game is changing for ambitious tech bros not just in the US but here, too. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=media_news&issue=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=media_news&issue=1678&GUID=553 THE World Cup has seen repeated studs-up tackles by the Daily Mail on the BBC’s director of sport, Alex Kay-Jelski, or as the paper’s headline called him in a full-page denunciation on 13 June, “The insufferably woke boss who lost the World Cup for the BBC”. (Spoiler alert: he didn’t, with more than half of the tournament’s games being broadcast live on the corporation’s TV channels.) https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=media_news#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1678&GUID=553 THE Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday turned the full force of their guns on Rupert Lowe and his party Restore Britain in the run-up to the Makerfield by-election, belatedly noticing that they were happy to hang out with white supremacists and neo-Nazis and accept “bigoted and deeply sinister hoodlum” Tommy Robinson as a member. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/crossword&GUID=553 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/crossword#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/cartoons&GUID=553 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/cartoons#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/lookalikes&GUID=553 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1678 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/columnists&GUID=553 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1678/columnists#Comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/?issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/current-issue&GUID=552 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-1677/current-issue#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1677&GUID=552 COMMERCIAL terms agreed in principle for a new data centre on the former steelworks site on the south bank of the Tees show how the publicly funded regeneration of one of the UKs most deprived regions has turned into a �£500m-plus enrichment scheme for a couple of local businessmen, and one of the greatest taxpayer rip-offs on record. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1677&GUID=552 A LOOK at where Fifa is getting its World Cup finals money from shows that, while Qatar in 2022 and the one in equally unsuited Saudi Arabia in 2034 showcase sportswashing at its finest, this jamboree in the US, Canada and Mexico is also on full spin. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame&issue=1677&GUID=552 “HUNGRY slugs returning after dry weather,” cautioned the BBC News website last Wednesday, while the following mornings Times chimed in to warn: “Ravenous slugs are crawling your way.” https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=street_of_shame#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/crossword&GUID=552 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/crossword#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/cartoons&GUID=552 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/cartoons#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/lookalikes&GUID=552 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1677 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/columnists&GUID=552 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1677/columnists#Comments Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/?issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/current-issue&GUID=550 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-1676/current-issue#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back&issue=1676&GUID=550 COMMUNITIES secretary Steve Reed has set much, ahem, store by rejuvenating high streets across the UK, such as through a Pride of Place initiative run with the devolved governments of Wales and Scotland. Alas, one public body hasnt got the memo on supporting town centres. Yep, its the Post Office. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=in_the_back#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce&issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce&issue=1676&GUID=550 A LAST-MINUTE appeal by the Palace spared Brian from announcing his own pay packet in the Kings Speech. Instead, news that the Sovereign Grant was to be reviewed (and possibly cut) was buried on p101 of the explanatory notes. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=hp_sauce#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news&issue=1676&GUID=550 ELON MUSK only became aware of Rupert Lowes existence in January 2025, but his support for the latters Restore Britain party in the forthcoming Makerfield by-election, said to be on a knife edge between Labour and Nigel Farages Reform UK, could prove decisive. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=news#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=crossword&issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/crossword&GUID=550 Win £100 in our latest crossword competition <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/crossword#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=cartoons&issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/cartoons&GUID=550 A few sample cartoons from the latest issue. <p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/cartoons#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=lookalikes&issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/lookalikes&GUID=550 The latest lookalikes in your Private Eye. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/lookalikes#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=columnists&issue=1676 https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/columnists&GUID=550 Find out what our columnists are writing about in this weeks Private Eye<p> https://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1676/columnists#Comments Wed, 27 May 2026 14:00:00 GMT