in the back

Top stories in the latest issue:

DRAX EVASION
The National Audit Office's biomass report is damning for the government, but ministers are steaming ahead regardless with their misguided plans.

MONEY TO BURN
The greener "electric arc" furnace provides a useful cover for Tata's closure of its two Port Talbot blast furnaces – but the numbers always favoured closure.

RUBBLE WITHOUT A CLAUSE
The Eye has discovered that £20m was paid out by the South Tees Development Corporation to a company controlled by local businessmen without a contract.

WAIT PROBLEM
The huge NHS waiting list hasn't generated the numbers of lucrative private patients that were anticipated by the government and private hospital bosses.

JAIL DEBATE
A government scheme offering "high-quality apprenticeships" for prisoners has led to fewer than 10 prisoners starting apprenticeships in the first 16 months.

HARM-TWISTING
The charity GambleAware, largely funded by the gambling industry, is thought to be angling for the job of commissioning prevention work, despite concerns.

SLOW PROGRESS
The justice committee's review of the coroners' service only has to look at three recent inquests to see how the system fails mentally ill people and their families.

LOSING GROUND
The Land Registry service is failing in its core task of securing property rights, resulting in years of delays, uncertainty and expense.

MIAMI VICE?
The Miami-based private investment firm that is buying Everton FC has chequered interests to match those of the departing owner.

To read all these stories in full, please buy issue 1616 of Private Eye - you can subscribe here and have the magazine delivered to your home every fortnight.

Next issue on sale: 14th February 2024
gnitty
MORE TOP STORIES ONLINE
Surface tension
Surface tension
EDF bossing the Government
Columnists, Issue 1616
Kiss me Kate
Kiss me Kate
The Princess Diaries
Street Of Shame, Issue 1616
Harsh reception  
Harsh reception  
Phone masts in the remotest areas
In The Back, Issue 1614
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
ONLY IN THE MAGAZINE
Private Eye Issue 1616
In This Issue
Post Office chairman dispatched… Parents will have to pay more to access free childcare… ‘I would have definitely joined army,' claim people who are conveniently all too old now… New Telegraph poll shows confidence in Daily Telegraph polling at all-time high… Royal Mail could save £650m by reducing to a no-days-a-week service… ‘Pigs will fly to Rwanda' says Nurseryland's new foreign secretary… Let's pray for Kate to get better so we can put her on the front page… Ironyometer explodes again… Werner Herzog: My Sandwich, as told to Craig Brown

Rubble trouble
Another worrying payment on Teesside

BBC wan
How a Panorama film on the Post Office was deferred

Open wide
MD on the state of dental health in the UK

Read these stories and much more - only in the magazine. Subscribe here to get delivery direct to your home and never miss an issue!
ONLY £2.99
SUBSCRIBE HERE
NEXT ISSUE ON SALE
14th February 2024
WHY SUBSCRIBE?
Private Eye Issue 1615
MORE FROM PRIVATE EYE