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This week, nobody in the team working on the coverage of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s life has quit, in a shock move that has stunned observers.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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An exclusive first look at the new James Bond scripts following Amazon’s takeover of the franchise
From ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’. Available to watch in full on the Eye’s YouTube: youtu.be/AQ5Xxj2EwGQ
From ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’. Available to watch in full on the Eye’s YouTube: youtu.be/AQ5Xxj2EwGQ
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“I can reveal that showbusiness reporters at the Sun were told to drop negative stories about [David] Walliams because both that newspaper and HarperCollins are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News UK, even sharing offices near London Bridge,” confided showbiz maven Katie Hind to Daily mber.
Hind’s revelation came after the comedian and children’s author was dropped by his publisher following an investigation into “inappropriate behaviour”. (Walliams denies inappropriate behaviour and has said he is taking legal advice.)
She’s not wrong. As the Eye has long noted, Murdoch’s titles have been obliged to do PR duties for Walliams, running plugs for his kids’ books disguised as news stories, special editions of the Funday Times and even Covid home- schooling resources.
Full story online and in the latest issue: private-eye.co.uk/street-of-shame
For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine.
Hind’s revelation came after the comedian and children’s author was dropped by his publisher following an investigation into “inappropriate behaviour”. (Walliams denies inappropriate behaviour and has said he is taking legal advice.)
She’s not wrong. As the Eye has long noted, Murdoch’s titles have been obliged to do PR duties for Walliams, running plugs for his kids’ books disguised as news stories, special editions of the Funday Times and even Covid home- schooling resources.
Full story online and in the latest issue: private-eye.co.uk/street-of-shame
For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine.
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100 Years of Pooh
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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With the BBC under fire for a fresh editing scandal, Private Eye has sought the opinions of a famously balanced political commentator, Boris Johnson...
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As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent eight-page special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.
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➡️ Read for free ps://t.co/2xsMwjOmxg
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And here's what Lord Houchen thinks of the Eye...
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Subscribe to Private Eye magazine TODAY and get the next issue delivered direct to your door. Gift subscriptions also available.
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Some *free* weekend reading: @PrivateEyeNews special report on the Teesside regeneration scandal - the history, the deceptions and the transfer of hundreds of millions of pounds from the taxpayer to two businessmen - one now in Dubai - and their families and friends.
As Tees Valley mayor Lord Houchen's defence of his deal with local businessmen crumbles, here's the Eye's recent eight-page special report on how Britain's flagship regeneration scheme secretly turned into one of the biggest giveaways of public money on record.
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“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Number crunching: Pay and dividends of Bet365 chief executive v total fiscal cost of gambling-related harm.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Which local councillors have picked up the Nod and Wink award, the Hand in the Till prize, or been named Shit of the Year? Find out in the Rotten Boroughs Awards 2025, in the new Eye, out now.
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How Britain’s flagship ‘levelling up’ project turned into a scandalous giveaway.
Read the eight-page special report from Eye 1660 (Oct 2025). Back issue available here:
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It was to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the River Tees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception.
Read the eight-page special report from Eye 1660 (Oct 2025). Back issue available here:
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It was to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the River Tees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception.
Conservative Mayor of Tees Valley Lord Houchen told #Newsnight in 2024 that 2 private developers had ‘£50m of their money sitting in a bank account’ when I quoted an independent report pointing out the pair (Chris Musgrove & Martin Corney) had put no direct cash of their own into regeedcar steelworks site (now Teesworks)
@RBrooks45 reports in this week’s @PrivateEyeNews that almost all of that £50m has now been taken as dividends by Messrs Musgrave & Corney (there’s £2.7m left in the account)
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Poetry Corner: In Memoriam Jilly Cooper.
By the Eye’s poet-in-residence E. J. Thribb.
From ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’. Available to watch in full on the Eye’s YouTube: youtu.be/AQ5Xxj2EwGQ
By the Eye’s poet-in-residence E. J. Thribb.
From ‘Private Eye - The Year In Review 2025’. Available to watch in full on the Eye’s YouTube: youtu.be/AQ5Xxj2EwGQ
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“Today we’re discussing if the threat from Russia is real”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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