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For all its professed commitment to “sovereign” tech capability, the UK government is remarkably ready to waive the rules to accommodate US data company Palantir.

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The publicly funded clean-up of the former Redcar steelworks has turned into a private windfall. Teesworks Ltd, 90% owned by two local businessmen, holds an option to buy the remediated land at £1 an acre. It’s now agreed in principle to sell 222 acres to AI firm Anthropic for £222m.

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“The water pressure isn’t great, but the broadband’s incredible”

From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Farage feels the heat

The new Private Eye is out now.

The Eye exposed Covid profiteering back in 2021, long before this week’s inquiry findings that nearly £10bn of PPE was written off as wasted, and that a “VIP lane” fast-tracked the politically connected.

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England football fans

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Outgoing South West Water boss Susan Davy (pictured) received a £270,000 bonus for 2024-25.

She presided over a cryptosporidiosis outbreak affecting 17,000 households in south Devon that made 140 people ill, hospitalising four of them.

‘Turd of the Week’ in the new Private Eye, out now.

THE ENTIRE world held its breath last night as a man kicked a ball.

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1056, June 2002.

“You do know it’s just telling you what it thinks you want to hear…”

From the latest Private Eye, out now.

“It’s just a meteor shower. Stop catastrophising”

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Some Friday number crunching....

From the latest issue of Private Eye - in shops now.

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Coincidence corner: Labour MP Rosie Wrighting receives travel and hospitality worth £550 from YouTube

From the latest Private Eye, out now.

“On the plus-side, the tax breaks here are great”

From the latest Private Eye, out now.

Bayeux Tapestry latest

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW

This week: FA-RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

The team (with guest Jane Mackenzie) discuss Nigel Farage's by-election gamble, the latest military procurement disasters, and the lowdown on Prince Harry’s trial against the Mail.

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Devolution: send the money and power to the places that know what to do with it. Fine. Except the watchdogs that checked the spending are gone; the Audit Commission scrapped, local papers shut by the hundred, council oversight has been gutted.

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Eye hack Richard Brooks tracked the companies and middlemen who cashed in on the crisis, and the government that let them get away with it.

➡️ Profits of Doom special report available to read for free: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

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Special Report: Profits Of Doom

As the greatest public health emergency for a century brought illness, bereavement and hardship to millions in the UK and presented taxpayers with a £75bn bill for extra health spending, a smaller ban...

One of the many brilliant jokes in this weeks issue of Private Eye

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Nigel Farage has shown little interest in the constituency casework side of the job: few surgeries, little engagement, and no serious attention to the parts of Clacton facing coastal flooding.

➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvoA...

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Trump speaks live from the Make America’s Great American State Fair Great Again Fair!

New Private Eye on shelves now.

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Although Trump might not have the attention span to be Supreme Dictator for life, there are fundamentally anti-democratic things happening in America that we should be worried about, says Helen Lewis.

From Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, live at Hay Festival.

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To mark the appointment of yet another Prime Minister we have a brand new issue for you... on shelves now!

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Getting an aircon unit: Arguments for and against…

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Breaking down Rupert Lowe's Joe Rogan appearance and his sprawling list of Britain's supposed villains: the WEF, the judiciary, the police, the Fabian Society...

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