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Glenda Slagg is a fictional parodic columnist in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. 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] Slagg is depicted as brash, vitriolic, and inconsistent.
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 ...
The Best of Private Eye 1973: Anatomy of Neasden (1973) The Best of Private Eye 1974: A Load of Old Rubbish (1974) The Best of Private Eye 1976: Lord Gnome of the Rings (1976) The Best of Private Eye 1978: Wholly Libel (1978) The Best of Private Eye 1980: The Country Diary of an Edwardian Gnome (1980) The Best of Private Eye 1982: Bargshead ...
Mrs Wilson's Diary was the imaginary diary of Prime Minister Harold Wilson's wife Mary, in the style of the BBC radio serial Mrs Dale's Diary.Written primarily by John Wells with input from Richard Ingrams and Peter Cook, it chronicled the events in Wilson's life from Mary's more down-to-earth and homely perspective.
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 .
A private eye named Sam Tran is dead, hanged from a tree in a local cemetery, and Chicago P.D. Detective Annalisa Vega catches the case. Tran was once on the job himself, but as it turns out, that ...
St Albion Parish News was a regular feature in the British satirical magazine Private Eye during the premiership of Tony Blair. It was in the Private Eye tradition of featuring a fortnightly column lampooning the Prime Minister of the day and their close associates, seemingly written in a gossipy style by an insider. This has taken either of ...