Showing posts with label Private Eye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Private Eye. Show all posts
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Good news about the Family Farm Tax

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Farmers have been complaining for some time that the price of farmland has lost any connection with the income that be derived from farming ...
Sunday, May 03, 2026

Andrew Wakefield, autism and MMR: A forgotten aspect of the affair

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It's been called "perhaps the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years". On 28 February 1998 a research paper primari...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Vaughan Wilkins gives Queen Victoria's wicked uncles both barrels and Private Eye has more on Hakluyt

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The spooky "strategic advisory" firm Hakluyt that occasionally features in Private Eye . That was me blogging the other day. And ...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Down a recherché rabbit hole: More on Vaughan Wilkins's family

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One of this blog's more obscure heroes is Vaughan Wilkins, a now-obscure historical novelist who had quite a following from the 1930s to...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

What does our campaign against the Family Farm Tax seek?

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What exactly do we Liberal Democrats want from out campaign against the "Family Farm Tax"? It's important we know, because The...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

The Family Farm Tax and VAT on school fees are here to stay

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The National Farmers' Union has decided to wind down its campaign against the imposition of inheritance tax (IHT) on farmland, reports B...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Private Eye is still raising young men to run the British Empire

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I'm fast coming to the conclusion that Private Eye's Literary Review is written by the idiot grandson of someone Ian Hislop was at p...
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Monday, December 09, 2024

Private Eye's Literary Review: "A 17-year-old writing in his public school's magazine 50 years ago"

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As I usually point out before criticising Private Eye, to establish my credentials, I have bought every issue of the magazine since I went t...
Friday, September 27, 2024

Having a mate called Danny whose nickname is Danzo, "cuz he’s the king of Lanzo"

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If you were lucky enough not to have come across this, er,  unique Guardian article 'The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that defin...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Why the New Yorker's article on Lucy Letby was blocked in the UK

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The new Private Eye has an article on Lucy Letby that the magazine was unable to publish at the time of her second trial. I don't know i...
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Do wealthy evangelicals think there's a separate heaven for the privately educated?

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You may know the story of Mary Whitehouse's fellow campaigner John Smyth QC. The new Private Eye reminds us: In a purpose-built garden s...
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Thursday, May 16, 2024

No, Nimbys can't stop all housing development with just a petition

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Listeners to the latest Private Eye podcast risk coming away from it believing it's possible to stop new houses being built on a local ...
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Thursday, January 18, 2024

The Agri Brigade: Another pisspoor Private Eye column

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Pseuds Corner isn't the only poor column in Private Eye: I was pleased to see the current issue has another letter from a reader critic...
Monday, January 08, 2024

Why does "Back to square one" date from the early 1960s?

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Barney Ronay often appears the Private Eye's Pseuds Corner. That's because he writes intelligently and allusively about football, an...
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Sunday, March 05, 2023

True Tilda, Private Eye and rendering dialect in print

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When I was quoting from Arthur Quiller-Couch's True Tilda on this blog, I harvested them from the Project Gutenberg plain text version....
Saturday, December 10, 2022

The Sins of G.K. Chesterton by Richard Ingrams

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Writing in the latest issue of the London Review of Books, Peter Howarth reviews a book on G.K Chesterton by the former Private Eye editor ...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Foreign affairs reporting at its finest

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Embed from Getty Images A letter in Private Eye complains that Lord Gnome's organ began a report on restrictions imposed by the Iranian ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The new Private Eye: Just fancy that

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This isn't a caretaker cabinet, it's a piss-taker cabinet. — Jonathan Calder (@lordbonkers) July 9, 2022
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Private Eye's Remote Controller is no cricket fan

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It seems churlish to complain about an issue that covers the great Market Harborough bungalow mystery , but the Eye TV column this time is p...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

The Great Market Harborough Bungalow Mystery makes the new Private Eye

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Rotten Boroughs in the new Private Eye has picked up the story about secrecy at Harborough District Council that I recently mentioned on th...