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Tom Jamieson

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Surprisingly Australian. Wrote that Private Eye Epstein cover. Co-head writer BBC Dead Ringers. Award losing children’s author. Assistant stick collector

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Government says police and crime commissioners are a “failed experiment”, with the system due to be scrapped soon.

Given the shenanigans at Hertfordshire’s Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner, with bullying claims, cronyism, unprecedented staff jollies and hotel bills, the cull is overdue.

06.03.2026 09:37 👍 219 🔁 33 💬 6 📌 2
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“Self-driving taxis safe” says self-writing article.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

06.03.2026 13:01 👍 321 🔁 82 💬 3 📌 5

One for my Uni daughters! Not written with them in mind AT ALL!

06.03.2026 11:31 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Recent university graduates entering a tough jobs market have spoken of the brutal interest rates on the loans they took out to fund their degree from The Bank of Mum and Dad.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

05.03.2026 17:04 👍 164 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 2

Yipes!

The force is strong with our cover 😍 😍😍

05.03.2026 21:03 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Indeed. Which reminds me of another great Orwell quote - "You and me baby aren't nothing but mammals so lets do it like they do on the Discovery channel."

05.03.2026 21:50 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0

If it’s good enough for a Jedi…

➡️ Private Eye subscriptions: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...

05.03.2026 20:12 👍 387 🔁 72 💬 8 📌 0

Indeed. Which reminds me of another great Orwell quote - "You and me baby aren't nothing but mammals so lets do it like they do on the Discovery channel."

05.03.2026 21:50 👍 31 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
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Trump: My war has a clear objective which I've already achieved. I have killed the Epstein story.

New Private Eye on shelves now.

➡️ Subscribe: checkout.private-eye.co.uk/SingleItem?I...

05.03.2026 18:41 👍 226 🔁 73 💬 5 📌 4

Lewis is the best 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

05.03.2026 21:07 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Yipes!

The force is strong with our cover 😍 😍😍

05.03.2026 21:03 👍 26 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
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Plumber wins by-election for Greens

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

05.03.2026 08:48 👍 1556 🔁 277 💬 44 📌 26
A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…

The new Private Eye is out now.

04.03.2026 08:05 👍 747 🔁 288 💬 19 📌 25

What's so viscerally upsetting about this is that making up words and attributing them to real writers, alive or not, is essentially making and selling deepfakes of the writers. It's incredibly violating.

05.03.2026 04:00 👍 98 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 1
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Only two weeks remain to apply for the Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.

Submit your entry by noon, Tuesday 17th March 2026.

➡️ Find out more and apply: private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

03.03.2026 12:03 👍 81 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 0
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IPSO have published their verdict on The Daily Telegraph’s fake £345,000-a year banker couple who claimed they couldn’t afford five holidays.

The paper declined to explain to the watchdog how the article came to be published - but our reporting at the time sets it out…

03.03.2026 16:21 👍 691 🔁 251 💬 13 📌 15
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From Board of Peace to bored of peace...

Our new issue of The Eye on sale now!

04.03.2026 09:59 👍 35 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0

Decent enough beard but I'd have gone with the guy out of Small Prophets.

03.03.2026 22:22 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
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"They died to save her face"

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 550, January 1983, some months after the Falklands war.

01.03.2026 19:34 👍 681 🔁 186 💬 20 📌 1

Follow the Puffins on Skomer Island's instagram account. They really hate Trump.

03.03.2026 14:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Big version of this on the stairs in the office. Hits the target with surgical accuracy.

03.03.2026 12:51 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looked up the official medical term for this sort of behaviour. Doctors call it -

Being a fucking lunatic

03.03.2026 12:36 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

👏👏👏

02.03.2026 17:49 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Box office appeal: and of course it bombed

02.03.2026 10:30 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👍

02.03.2026 08:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the news isn't constantly making you think of the Not The Nine O Clock News Ayahtolla song then we can't be friends.

02.03.2026 07:08 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1

Yeah, that was me in the sandpit. THANKS a bundle Clever clogs!

02.03.2026 07:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love it! The bullies were like no...this one is TOO much, even for us.

02.03.2026 06:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Private Eye 😂😂😂

02.03.2026 06:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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