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Private Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. [2] It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The publication is widely recognised for its prominent criticism and lampooning of public figures.
A joke on the front of Private Eye titled "BREXIT LATEST" mocking the reaction to Brexit received "fifty or so" letters of complaint in the next issue. [49] Hislop mocked this, saying that "There was one [letter] from a vicar, too, who told me that it was time to accept the victory of the majority of the people and to stop complaining. ...
The following is a list of regularly appearing mini-sections appearing in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. These are mostly based on clippings from newspapers sent in by readers, often for a cash fee.
Private Eye had covered the case of a Mr J. Arkell, whom the Eye accused of receiving kickbacks from a debt collection agency in his role as retail credit manager at Granada Group. [8] [9] The plaintiff's lawyers wrote a letter which concluded "His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply." The magazine's response was ...
Colemanballs is a term coined by Private Eye magazine to describe verbal gaffes perpetrated by sports commentators. [1] Coleman refers to the surname of the former BBC broadcaster David Coleman and the suffix -balls, as in "to balls up", [1] [2] and has since spawned derivative terms in unrelated fields such as "Warballs" (spurious references to the September 11, 2001, attacks), "Dianaballs ...
Solomon Hughes is a freelance investigative journalist working in the United Kingdom. [1] Many of his pieces focus on corporate influence on politicians. [2] His work has appeared regularly in Private Eye [3] since around 2000.
Private Eye is a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper. It is currently edited by Ian Hislop . The main article for this category is Private Eye .
Glenda Slagg is a fictional parodic columnist in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. She first appeared in the mid-1960s. She first appeared in the mid-1960s. Slagg's writing style is a pastiche of several female columnists in British newspapers, notably Jean Rook [ 1 ] and Lynda Lee-Potter . [ 2 ]