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Downing Street officials offered to waive restrictions on mourners for Prince Philip’s funeral. The Queen refused, on the grounds she wanted to set an example rather than be an exception to the rules. So they threw two parties instead. Full story in the brand new Private Eye.

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Why is the Sun’s coverage of the Downing Street Christmas party story so muted? Could it be because on the very same night in December 2020, the paper was hosting a rule-busting boozy bash of its own? Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.

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The Department of Health insists it paid £600m to an interior design company for PPE. The money is nowhere to be seen in the firm’s accounts. They won’t answer the Eye’s questions. So where’s the money gone? Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.

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All change: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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9 years after the Eye exposed rampant Russian money-laundering in London and 6 years since we revealed the scale of anonymous offshore ownership of UK property, it takes a war to finally make the government take action. Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out today.

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So. Farewell then, Nadhim Zahawi, who, just days after the last Eye asked when he might take the hint and resign as MP for Stratford-on-Avon, has done precisely that. Zahawi's resignation letter ran through his greatest hits without mentioning his tax blunders or expenses claims

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It is important when comparing statistics to use the same range on each Y-axis, otherwise you are just putting two things next to each other that look silly.

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The Spectator’s remarkable subscriptions growth over the last 5 years is bucking the trend in a declining industry. Try a month for free today and find out why. You might also be our 100,000th subscriber and win a prize worth £5,000.

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Why wasn’t Starmer fined for boozing in office, demands furious Daily Mail - whose editor the Eye has video of at, er, a boozy office celebration while Covid rules were in force? Full story in the brand new Private Eye, in shops today.

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The new Private Eye (for an eye) is on sale now.

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A mysterious one-day directorship, a £491k loan, a Cayman Island firm specifically designed to keep banking bonuses offshore and a flat refusal to answer the Eye’s question about any of it: the new Eye attempts to untangle the issues around Sajid Javid’s dubious non-dom status.

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“My Tesla keeps veering to the far right” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Revealed: the Tory donor whose clothing company made a £16.4m profit on the facemask contract it bagged through the government’s VIP fast lane - with dividends carefully channelled through Jersey ensuring not too much tax would go back to the NHS! Details in the new Private Eye.

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A private ambulance company took over services at a cancer hospital. Now they are so often late patients are missing appointments, the booking system is “chaos”, and vehicles haven’t been upgraded for 12 years. But don’t worry, profits have hit £135million! Full story in new Eye.

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Boris Johnson hosted a baby shower for Carrie Symonds at Chequers just two days before announcing "now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others" - yet more "necessary" travel from Downing Street revealed in the new Private Eye.

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A lot of laughs: the brand new edition of Private Eye is out now!

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Guess who’s been put in charge of preparing the “knowledge management system in preparation for the public inquiry” into Test & Trace failings? Deloitte, the very consultants who got hundreds of millions in contracts to, er, run Test & Trace. Full story in the new Eye, out now.

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IT company Infosys “does not see any impact on delivery or services” from its Moscow operations as a result of UK sanctions - which is good news for its £500m-investor, chancellor Rishi Sunak’s wife! Full story in the new Private Eye, on sale now.

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Greater Manchester Police chief Stephen Watson, who unexpectedly reopened the investigation into Angela Rayner’s addresses, spoke at the last Tory conference. The appearance raised questions about his political impartiality, as since the event he's garnered Tory support for

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And now *another* headache for Suella Braverman, as the bar standards board looks into a “dishonest statement to promote her career” as she tried to break into politics. Full story - and something else the regulator might want to have a look at - in the brand new Eye, out today.

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Priti Patel gets her numbers spectacularly wrong again as she claims Britain has "proudly resettled more Syrian refugees than any other country": Germany has taken in 55 TIMES as many. Full story in the new Private Eye, on sale now.

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The new edition of Private Eye is in shops now!

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The brand new Private Eye is on sale today. Get your copy now!

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Keir oh dear: the team of Daily Mail hacks who were caught flouting very clear covid rules with a booze-up of their own last year, revealed in the brand new Private Eye, on sale today.

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Another Covid-era scandal emerges: Excalibur Healthcare, once awarded £160m in Covid contracts, has collapsed into liquidation with £22m owed to the taxpayer. Shady dealings, unpaid bills, and failed deliveries of PPE and ventilators expose another chapter of Covid-era

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UK Riots: Ringleaders Identified The new Private Eye is out now.

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As Boris Johnson takes charge of getting children back to school, a reminder of some of his other recent personal triumphs. From Eye 1524 in June.

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A no-bid government contract worth £3m was handed to one of the Tory party’s favourite PR agencies last summer - so they could encourage people to go into shops and bars without masks, before the second wave of coronavirus broke. Full story in the new Private Eye, on sale today.

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“Carrie’s people called Rebekah’s people” - and the gruesome sexual detail the PM and his wife REALLY feared might, er, come out: why that story disappeared from the Times, revealed in the brand new Private Eye, out today.

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Why can’t the government afford pay rises for public sector workers that keep pace with inflation? It may have something to do with the amount they shell out to £1,000-a-day consultants from companies like PwC, who funnily enough ARE getting 9% rises! Full story in new Eye.

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“Why can’t we know the names of all those fined in Downing Street?” demands Sun. “Is your deputy editor one of them?” asks Eye. “We’re not telling you” responds Sun. Full story in the new Private Eye, out today.

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You know about the PPE the government paid millions for that was unfit for use and is now being 🔥burned🔥- now find out about the PPE costing at least £119m (about the same price as a small hospital) that never existed in the first place. Full details in the new Eye, out today.

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Spinning out of control: the lates edition of Private Eye is out now!

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Tories legally define sex. From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Lazy civil servants should be more like the Whitehall cleaners who were “ever-diligent” during Covid, declares Rees-Mogg. Would that be the outsourced cleaners who were obliged to come in symptoms or not, without PPE, one of whom died? Full story in the brand new Eye, out today.

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You, as a UK taxpayer, are backing an £809m deal with Saudi Arabia. But you’re not allowed to know what it’s for (arms? A petrochemical plant?), or even what company is involved, because that would be a “commercial risk”. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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US health insurance giant takes over 37 London GP practices, adding them to the 22 primary care services it already runs in the UK - and despite denials Matt Hancock's health white paper will make such privatisations by stealth more likely. Full story in new Private Eye, out now.

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What the Tory party says and doesn’t say about National Service. From the new Private Eye, out now.

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In the new Eye, out today: an 8-page special by @rbrooks45 on the tens of millions trousered from the pandemic, the blind eye turned by government to blatant rip-offs, and the ruses used to try to keep it all secret. Do not miss it! In all good newsagents and supermarkets now.

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Boris v. the bailiffs? A county court judgement for unpaid debt was issued last October against one Boris Johnson, address 10 Downing Street - and six months on, it STILL hasn’t been paid. An exclusive in the new Private Eye, on sale today.

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Old reliables: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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The Post-mortem: There's plenty more news and analysis about the Horizon scandal in the new Eye. Plus loads of other jokes and journalism.

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💷A query from Private Eye reveals that the Department of Health *don’t even know* who supplied £200m of unusable PPE - which joins the £2.9bn pile of useless gear taxpayers paid for (and companies made huge profits on). 💷 Full story in our new issue, on sale now.

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Government admits nearly 1 in 10 PPE contracts it awarded - around half a billion’s worth - are suspected to have been fraudulent - but that’s “no higher than standard�� for NHS procurement! Full shocking story in the brand new Private Eye, in shops now.

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The company that brokered the deal to sell more than a billion's worth of unreliable covid tests to the government - and earned its owners at least an 8 figure sum - has now been restructured in a way that will let them avoid income tax. Full story in the new Eye, out now.

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The government is handing over policing of the largest Freeport they are creating to a company they themselves describe as “a pirate”, and which happily admitted breaking the law. Rishi’s big idea continues to unravel in the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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NHS pandemic spending figures are finally out, and it turns out taxpayers covered the costs of 26 private hospital firms - and got just 0.08% of the total covid care in return. Full details of the profits of doom - and how they will continue for 4 years - in new Eye, out today.

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Things to remember about the Conservative Party’s new deputy chairman: from Eye 1584 last October. If you want to stay ahead of the news, subscribe:

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Johnson & Hancock insist “we didn’t know Covid could be transmitted asymptomatically” when they illegally sent untested patients into care homes. In the new Eye, M.D. @drphilhammond demonstrates (with 16 different bits of evidence) how the COMPLETE opposite is true. On sale today

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Staff at outsourced Covid testing centres surprised to find they don't even work for G4S, but for a variety of brand new firms with directors in the Philippines that resemble "cut out" companies set up to avoid paying National Insurance. Full story in the new Eye, out today.

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Moving on: The new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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Rupert Lowe, the new MP for Great Yarmouth, is anything but your typical "man of the people." A landed Cotswold toff, Lowe's career spans from his days as the unpopular football chairman of Southampton FC, to his current directorship of 13 corporate entities, including

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The brand new edition of Private Eye is on sale today!

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Open-ended PPE contract awarded to Tory donor's firm in a phone call with no formal written record - and this one isn't even on the Crown Commercial Service list they've used as an excuse before. Full story in the new Private Eye, out today.

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So, not farewell then: the new edition of Private Eye is out now!

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Exit poll reaction: Joe Biden is the first world leader to congratulate Keir Starmer

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Phil his boots: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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Some bad news, Liz… New Private Eye out now!

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£325m in two pandemic years PLUS the returns hidden offshore in Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands shared among his colleagues: the handsome profits enjoyed by the hedge-funder who hosted and toasted Kwarteng at his post-Budget booze up, revealed in new Eye, out now.

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At least something's on track: the new edition of Private Eye is out now!

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Andrew Neill's Great Brillo News, now firmly embracing cancel culture when it comes to its own presenters, is getting less than a sixth of the viewers of a Quest channel show about sheds. All the latest on GB News in the new Private Eye, out now.

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A £468,000-a year side gig, another £157,000 earned during a single month - is it any wonder Conservative MP Geoffrey Cox has not found time to speak in the Commons for the past 18 months? Full story in the new Private Eye, on sale now.

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Council donates £1m-worth of farmland to National Trust to create “green corridor”- then farmer sells the much smaller plot next door to Trust for £900k. He just happens to be the father-in-law of the council leader - who says he acted with the “utmost probity”. The new Eye …1/2

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Dozens of local councillors became MPs for the first time on 4 July and there is no legal impediment to an MP continuing as a councillor, but it is generally not seen as possible to do both jobs properly at the same time. This posed no problem for the former Tory MP for

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A final statement regarding the taxi incident in Soho yesterday.

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Historic souvenir issue! The new Private Eye is out now.

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Success! To read the full background to this astonishing and long-standing miscarriage of justice, download the Eye’s special report here:

Special Report: Justice Lost In The Post

CONCEIVED in 1996 as one of the first private finance initiative (PFI) contracts, between the Post Office and the Benefits Agency on the one hand and computer company ICL on the other, the Horizon IT...

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Thirty-nine Post Office workers convicted of theft have names cleared after one of the UK’s most widespread miscarriages of justice

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How did we end up with the eye-wateringly expensive Hitachi trains that are now cracking and being pulled from service? Personal lobbying of David Cameron. Full story in the new Private Eye, in all good newsagents and supermarkets now.

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Booming marvellous: the brand new edition of Private Eye is in shops today!

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So. Farewell then: the new edition of Private Eye is out now!

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As Downing Street condemns the "racist and wrong" comments by Tory donor Frank Hester (but shows no sign of returning £10m in gifts from Hester and his company), the new Eye reveals the whopping profits and dividends he's made from government NHS IT contracts.

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No pay rise for striking rail staff, insists government - but the highest-paid executive board member at the Department of Transport saw their pay jump by around 11.8%, to £190,000 last year! Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Number crunching: Fiscal ‘black holes’ From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Government outsources coronavirus contact tracing to Serco - who promptly outsource it to a stack of subcontractors, and the government neither know nor care who they are. Full story in the new Private Eye, out today.

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Released in full: the new edition of Private Eye is in shops now!

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1984 v 2024 From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Why has a company owned by Tory megadonor Lord Ashcroft got a £350m contract to employ lab staff who are being told they will work on the "Moonshot project" - which the Department of Health say no longer exists? Full story in the new Private Eye, on sale now.

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“Racism needs stamping out in all walks of life” declares Tory MP Lee Anderson - who praised a “White Pride” far-right stalwart as one of the “top lads who make me proud” of his constituency. Full story in the new Private Eye, on sale now.

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Your Vote Explained From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Ruled out: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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A 24% profit margin on lateral flow tests; a £17million payday for one PPE boss; and an £854,000-each share of the profits for consultants thanks to “government & public services work”: Covid's profits of doom latest, in the new Private Eye, out today!

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The full story of the Horizon Post Office scandal as seen on #MrBatesVsThePostOffice is now available as a free download on the Eye website here:

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Business ministers were warned by their ethics team not to hold meetings with an oil company under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Kwasi Kwarteng - remember him?? - went ahead and had five. Full story in the brand new Private Eye, in shops today.

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Tory peer who lobbied on behalf of now-sanctioned oligarch calls in lawyers Schillings (at £10,000 per letter) to threaten anyone who points this out - or dares imply he's a bit of a social climber. Full story in the brand new Private Eye, out now.

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Quick, buy now: The new edition of Private Eye is out!

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A handy reminder: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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Here we go again: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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And he's off: the new edition of Private Eye is out now!

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Two top Tory donors made millions "shorting" the stock market during last week's coronavirus collapse - so will they be putting their hands in their pockets to help those in need? Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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“We are going to harness the latest technology and innovative ways of working”, announces health secretary Sajid Javid - who just happens to have a hefty financial interest in a company providing the latest health technology. Full story in new Private Eye, out now.

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Sheer lunacy: the new edition of Private Eye is a 52-page souvenir special. On sale everywhere from tomorrow morning!

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A statement regarding the taxi incident in Soho involving Ian Hislop yesterday.

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So far the Eye has counted 3 possible breaches of the ministerial code by 2 members of the cabinet over David Cameron’s lobbying - lucky the PM still doesn’t have an adviser on ministerial interests after the last one resigned over Priti Patel! Full story in new mag, out today.

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Arresting developments: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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"Not terribly good" - P. Hitchens. In shops now!

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‘Private Eye’ attempts to satirise me. Not terribly good.

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Won’t get fooled again: how the Queen brought in her own lawyers to war-game every mad possibility if Boris Johnson refused to go - full story in the brand new Private Eye, on sale today.

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Junior staff on £3k a week; senior partners on £1.5k per HOUR: what the government was paying for management consultants whose public-sector work has soared even before the Covid cash started rolling in. Full story in the new Private Eye, out today.

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All across the country in massive numbers: the new edition of Private Eye is out now!

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Seeing the distraction for himself: the new edition of Private Eye is on sale now!

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