Private Eye
4 March 2005 cover of Private Eye; this is a typical example of the magazine's front cover. The caption refers to the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles.
Type	fortnightly satirical magazine-newspaper
Format	magazine
Owner	Pressdram Ltd
Editor	Ian Hislop
Founded	1961
Political allegiance	none
Headquarters	6 Carlisle Street, London, W1D 3BN
Website: private-eye.co.uk

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History

The magazine's mascot, "Gnitty", drawn by Willie Rushton and based on John Wells

The forerunner of Private Eye was a school magazine edited by Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Christopher Booker and Paul Foot in the mid-1950s. They met at Shrewsbury School and after National Service Ingrams and Foot went to the University of Oxford, where they met their future collaborators Peter Usborne, Andrew Osmond, John Wells and Danae Brook, among others. Private Eye magazine masthead This work is copyrighted. ... Private Eye magazine masthead This work is copyrighted. ... Richard Ingrams (born August 19, 1937) was the second editor of British satirical magazine, Private Eye, taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963. ... William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (August 18, 1937–December 11, 1996) was a British cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer. ... Christopher Booker (born 1938) is an English journalist and editor. ... Paul Foot, campaigning journalist Paul Mackintosh Foot (8 November 1937 in Palestine – 18 July 2004 at Stansted Airport) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ... King Edward VI Grammar School, Shrewsbury, normally known as Shrewsbury School, is an independent school, located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. ... National service is a common name for compulsory or voluntary military service programs. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ... John Wells (November 17, 1936 - January 11, 1998) was a British actor, writer and satirist. ...

The magazine proper began when Peter Usborne learned of a new printing process, photo-litho offset, which meant that anybody with a typewriter and Letraset could design a magazine. Although Private Eye was founded amid the British satire boom and the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, at first it was merely a vehicle for silly jokes – an extension of the school magazine and an alternative to other humorous magazines like Punch. However, according to Christopher Booker, its original editor, it simply got "caught up in the rage for satire". Mechanical desktop typewriters, such as this Underwood Five, were long time standards of government agencies, newsrooms, and sales offices. ... Screentone is a generic name for a drafting technique for applying various textures to surfaces from a specially preprinted sheet. ... The satire boom is a general term to describe the emergence of a generation of English satirical writers, journalists and performers at the end of the 1950s. ... Punch was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002. ...

The magazine was initially funded by Usborne and was launched in 1961. It was named when Andrew Osmond looked for ideas in the famous recruiting poster of Lord Kitchener (an image of Kitchener pointing with the caption "Wants You") and, in particular, the pointing finger. After the name "Finger" was rejected, Osmond suggested "Private Eye", in the sense of someone who "fingers" a suspect. Poster from the Spanish Revolution A poster is any large piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. ... Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (June 24, 1850 - June 5, 1916) was a British Field Marshal and statesman. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The magazine was initially edited by Christopher Booker and designed by Willie Rushton, who also drew cartoons for it. Its later editor Richard Ingrams was then pursuing a career as an actor, sharing the editorship with Booker on his return around issue 10 and taking over fully only on issue 40. A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations with varied meanings that evolved from its original meaning. ...

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Other people essential to the development of the magazine were Auberon Waugh, Claud Cockburn (who had run a pre-war scandal sheet, The Week), Barry Fantoni, Gerald Scarfe, Tony Rushton, Patrick Marnham and Candida Betjeman. Christopher Logue was another long-time contributor, providing a fortnightly column of "True Stories" featuring cuttings from the national press. The gossip columnist Nigel Dempster wrote extensively for the magazine before he fell out with the editor and other writers, and Paul Foot wrote on politics, local government and corruption. Auberon Alexander Waugh (November 17, 1939 – January 16, 2001) was a British author and journalist. ... Francis Claud Cockburn (pronounced ) (1904-1981) was a renowned radical British journalist, who was controversial for his communist and stalinist sympathies. ... Cover of U.S. edition from December 16, 2005. ... Barry Fantoni is an English writer, cartoonist, and jazz musician most famous for his work with the magazine Private Eye, for whom he created Neasden F.C.. He has also published on Chinese horoscopes. ... Gerald Scarfe (born 1936) is a British cartoonist and illustrator whose work is characterised by an apparent obsession with the grotesque and diseased, perhaps a result of an asthmatic, bed-ridden childhood. ... Candida Lycett Green (b. ... Christopher Logue (born Portsmouth, 1926) is an English poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. ... Neighborly gossips in the Altstadt in Sindelfingen, Germany Gossip consists of casual or idle talk of any sort, usually slanderous and/or devoted to discussing others. ... Nigel Richard Patton Dempster (1 November 1941 in Calcutta, India – 12 July 2007 in Ham, Surrey) was a British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist. ... Paul Foot, campaigning journalist Paul Mackintosh Foot (8 November 1937 in Palestine – 18 July 2004 at Stansted Airport) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ...

In late 2006, the magazine had a total circulation of around 209,000 per issue, of which around 98,000 were by subscription.^[1]

Nature of the magazine

A local poster advertising the appearance of a local councillor in the "Rotten Boroughs" column

Private Eye is often accused of specialising in scurrilous gossip and scandal about the misdeeds of the powerful and famous, and has been the recipient of numerous libel writs. These include three by the late Sir James Goldsmith and several by Robert Maxwell, one of which resulted in costs and reported damages of £225,000 and attacks on the magazine through the publication of a book, Malice in Wonderland, and a magazine, Not Private Eye by Maxwell^[2]. But its defenders point out that it frequently carries news that the mainstream press is frightened to use for fear of legal reprisals, or that is of minority interest. The Eye will often print a story when hard evidence is lacking but there is an overwhelming consensus that the story is true. It is also thought that the Eye avoids breaking stories of politicians' extramarital activities on moral grounds, but it will freely comment on such matters when they are unearthed elsewhere. Download high resolution version (500x800, 70 KB)Poster in Southwark commenting on Private Eye coverage of a local issue. ... Download high resolution version (500x800, 70 KB)Poster in Southwark commenting on Private Eye coverage of a local issue. ... Neighborly gossips in the Altstadt in Sindelfingen, Germany Gossip consists of casual or idle talk of any sort, usually slanderous and/or devoted to discussing others. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ... In law, a writ is a formal written order issued by a body with administrative or judicial jurisdiction. ... James Goldsmith as he appeared in his Referendum Party’s mass-mailed video tape, March 1997. ... Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell MC (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian-born British media proprietor and formerly Member of Parliament (MP), who rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire. ... Not Private Eye was a one-off spoof of the British satirical magazine Private Eye. ...

Many of the contributors to Private Eye are public figures, or specialists in their field, who write anonymously, often under humorous pseudonyms. Many stories originate from writers for other mainstream publications who cannot get their stories published by their employers. A financial column at the back of the magazine ("In the City", written by Michael Gillard) has contributed to a wide city and business readership as a large number of financial scandals and unethical business practices and personalities were first exposed there.

The magazine is also home to many of Britain's most highly regarded humorous cartoonists, and has published a series of independent one‑offs dedicated solely to news reporting of particular current events, such as government inadequacy over the foot and mouth outbreak, or the conviction of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi for the Lockerbie bombing (Lockerbie, the flight from justice, May/June 2001). Another special issue was published in September 2004 to mark the death of long-time staff member Paul Foot. Notice telling people to keep off the North York Moors. ... Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi (Arabic: عبد الباسط محمد علي المقرحي) (born April 1, 1952) is a former Libyan intelligence officer, head of security for Libyan Arab Airlines, and director of the Center for Strategic Studies in Tripoli. ... Lockerbie Town Hall, 2006. ... Paul Foot, campaigning journalist Paul Mackintosh Foot (8 November 1937 in Palestine – 18 July 2004 at Stansted Airport) was a British investigative journalist, political campaigner, author, and long-time member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). ...

Alongside jokes, the magazine frequently breaks news stories before any other outlet. It was the first outlet to name the Kray twins as the gang leaders terrorising the London underworld in the 1960s. This only occurred as the then editor Richard Ingrams was on holiday and proprietor Peter Cook standing in for him thought it too good an opportunity to miss. The Kray twins, Reginald (left) and Ronald, photographed by David Bailey. ... Richard Ingrams (born August 19, 1937) was the second editor of British satirical magazine, Private Eye, taking over from Christopher Booker in 1963. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Running in-jokes

Main article: List of recurring in-jokes in Private Eye

The magazine has a number of running in jokes and convoluted references, often comprehensible only to those who have read the magazine for many years. These in jokes may consist of referring to controversial or legally ambiguous things in a subtle euphemistic code, such as substituting "drunk" with "tired and emotional", or using the phrase "Ugandan relations" to denote illicit sexual exploits, or they may consist of more obvious parodies utilising easily-recognisable stereotypes, such as the lampooning of any Conservative MP viewed to be particularly old-fashioned and bigoted as "Sir Bufton Tufton", or a variation thereof. The first half of the issue, containing reporting and investigative journalism, tends to include these in-jokes in a more subtle manner, so as to maintain journalistic integrity, while the second half, more geared around unrestrained parody and cutting humour, tends to present this kind of humour in a more confrontational way. This is a list of frequently-occuring or long-running in-jokes used in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Regular sections

Columns

• News (previously called The Colour Section) – effectively the stories the magazine is most proud of that week or thinks most important, placed at its front.
• Street of Shame – covering journalism, newspapers and other press stories. The term "Street of Shame" refers to Fleet Street. Usually largely written by Francis Wheen and Adam Macqueen.
• Hackwatch – a column highlighting and exposing recent examples of ironic inconsistencies or general poor quality of journalists and newspapers.
• Called to Ordure – reporting from recent committee appearances by regulators or otherwise senior civil servants.
• HP Sauce – covering politics and politicians. ("HP" refers to Houses of Parliament, as well as being an actual brand of sauce).
• Down On The Farm – agricultural issues.
• Down On The Fishfarm – issues relating to fish-farming.
• Music notes – gossip on the artistic and political intrigues behind the scenes in the world of classical music. Written by "Lunchtime O'Boulez". (Lunchtime O'Booze has been the resident Private Eye journalist since the earliest days; Pierre Boulez, French avant garde composer and conductor, was a controversial choice as Principal Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in the early 1970s, a time still remembered by many as a dark age of British music-making). In an earlier incarnation, the column published scurrilous and unfounded gossip about the London Symphony Orchestra, which resulted in a significant libel pay-out.
• Ad Nauseam – the excesses and faux-pas of the advertising industry.
• Court Circular – a parody of The Daily Telegraph and The Times' Court Circular sections which detail the activities of the Royal Family, for example "HRH Prince Harry attended the opening of a bottle of vodka at Slappers Niteclub in Kensington."
• Eye TV – analysis of television programmes and news/criticism of the UK television industry. (ITV is a British TV channel).
• Doing The Rounds – medical news and coverage of the National Health Service, written by the general practitioner (and sometime comedian) Dr Phil Hammond.
• Rotten Boroughs – a column reporting on dubious practice in local government. The name of the column is a play on the term "rotten borough". This section is written by a number of regionally specialist reporters, none of whom are credited, and is edited by Tim Minogue.
• Signal Failures – covering railway issues. The author name "Dr B. Ching" refers to Dr Richard Beeching who wielded the Beeching Axe, a report that led to widespread cuts to the British railway network in the 1960s.
• High Principals – examining further and higher education issues and spotlighting individuals who might have acted in their own best interest or those of family, friends and associates, rather than in the interest of the wider academic community.
• Under The Microscope – looking at issues related to the scientific field.
• Nooks & Corners – architectural criticism. This is one of the magazine's most famous sections. It was originally titled Nooks & Corners of the New Barbarism, a reference to the architectural movement known as New Brutalism. The column was founded by John Betjeman, and is currently written by architectural historian Gavin Stamp using the name "Piloti".
• Funny Old World – supposedly genuine news stories from around the world; compiled by Victor Lewis-Smith. Continued an earlier column, Christopher Logue's True Stories.
• Letter From... – brief column written by a native person of a particular country highlighting the political or social situation there, the name coming from Alistair Cooke's Letter from America.
• Literary Review – book reviews and news from the world of publishing and bookselling. The masthead from the magazine of the same name, formerly edited by Auberon Waugh (AKA, Abraham Wargs, "The Voice of Himself"), is lifted for this section.
• Diary – A parody of the weekly 'diary' column which appears in The Spectator magazine, written in the style of the chosen celebrity (written by Craig Brown).
• In The City – analysis of financial and city affairs and people.
• In The Back – in-depth investigative journalism, often taking the side of the downtrodden. This section was until 2004 overseen by the late Paul Foot under whose tenure it was known as Footnotes. It often features stories on potential miscarriages of justice and stories on other embarrassing establishment misdeeds. In the Back was first used in 1999, when Paul Foot suffered an aortic aneurysm and had to spend six months in hospital and the Footnotes name was completely dropped in 2004.

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Newspaper parodies

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• Lunchtime O'Booze has been the Eye's resident journalist since the early days. The name is a comment on journalists' traditional fondness for alcohol, their prandial habits, the suspicion that they get their stories by hanging around the pub and talking to people they meet there and, by implication, the amount of reliance which might be placed upon their reports.
• Glenda Slagg – brash, libidinous and self-contradictory female reporter based on Jean Rook and Lynda Lee-Potter.
• Sally Jockstrap – a fictional sports columnist, inspired by Lynne Truss^[3], who is incapable of correctly reporting any sporting facts. Her articles are usually a mishmash of references with several sports, along the lines of "there was drama at Twickenham as Michael Schumacher double faulted to give Arsenal victory"
• Dave Spart – ultra-left wing activist (always of a ridiculous-sounding collective or magazine - sometimes the New Spartsman or the Indescribably Sparty - frequently based in Neasden) who is given free rein to express his views. These always begin 'Once again ...', before attempting to lambast the subject of his anger for allegedly constant misconduct, prejudice or general wrongdoing. This very rarely gets further than a few words before it breaks down into a fragmented litany of 'sickening ... totally sickening ... worse than Hitler ..." and so on, before being abruptly curtailed by the inevitable "continued on page 94". Since he must take the alternative view on any subject, he often ends up contradicting himself and getting stuck in logical circles, frequently stopping with "Er..." but continuing anyway.
• Poetry Corner – trite obituaries of the recently deceased in the form of poems from the fictional teenage poet E.J. Thribb (17½). The poems (nearly) always have a heading "In Memoriam..." and usually begin "So. Farewell then".
• A Doctor Writes – the fictional "A. Doctor" or "Dr Thomas Utterfraud" parodies newspaper articles on topical medical conditions, particularly those by Dr Thomas Stuttaford.
• Polly Filler – a vapid and self-centred female "lifestyle" columnist, whose irrelevant personal escapades and gossip serve solely to fill column inches. She complains bitterly about the workload of the modern woman whilst passing all parental responsibility onto 'the au pair', who always comes from a less-advanced country, is paid a pittance, and fails to understand the workings of some mundane aspect of "lifestyle" life. Her name is derived from Polyfilla, a DIY product used to fill holes and cracks in plaster. Polly's sister Penny Dreadful makes an occasional appearance. Like several Private Eye regulars, Polly is based upon more than one female columnist who can be difficult to identify, but Jane Moore of The Sun, whose remarks are often echoed by Polly or commented on elsewhere in the magazine, is a major source. Additionally, the column is a sly dig (as opposed to the more usual Eye bludgeoning with a blunt instrument) at the Murdoch empire in general and Sky Television in particular, as Polly's husband, "the useless Simon", is usually mentioned as being in front of the television (wasting time) watching exotic sports on obscure satellite television channels (a News Corporation speciality).
• Toy-town News or Nursery Times – a newspaper based on the mythology of children's stories. For example, Royal butler Paul Burrell was satirised as the "Knave of Hearts" who was "lent" tarts "for safe keeping", rather than stealing them as in the rhyme. Nigel Dempster is referred to as "Humpty Dumpster".
• Ye Daily Tudorgraph – a newspaper written in mock-Tudor language, set in that time-period, and clearly a parody of the Daily Telegraph. It usually suggests that former Daily Telegraph editor Bill Deedes was a young boy at the time.
• The Has-Beano – a pastiche of Britain's long-running Beano children's comic, used to satirise The Spectator and Boris Johnson (who features as the lead character, Boris the Menace).
• Obvious headline – the trite and banal stories about celebrities' antics that receive extensive reporting in the national press are often rewritten as an anonymous headline, such as "SHOCK NEWS: MAN HAS SEX WITH SECRETARY". This is usually "EXCLUSIVE TO ALL NEWSPAPERS".
• Official Apology or Product Recall – spoofs the official apologies and product recall notices that newspapers are mandated to print. For example, the subject might be the English national football team.
• Gnomemart – the Christmas special edition of Private Eye includes a double page of spoof adverts for useless mail-order gadgets, usually endorsed by topical celebrities, as being capable of playing topical songs or TV theme tunes.
• Mary Ann Bighead – A satire of The Times columnist and assistant editor Mary Ann Sieghart. Bighead is lampooned as being pretentious, ignorant, and boastful of her two children Brainella (3) and Intelligencia (7), her high standard of living, her travels (mainly to developing countries where she patronises the locals) and the fact that she can speak so many languages (including Swahili, Tagalog and 13th Century Mongolian).
• Pop Scene by Maureen Cleavage – Originally a micky-take on press coverage of the music business and Maureen Cleave, who had a "pop" column on the Evening Standard. At the time (early to mid-Sixties), popular culture was starting to be taken more seriously by the heavier newspapers; some claim that the Eye gang considered this approach to be pretentious, and ripe for ridicule, although others counter-argue that the Eye was in fact covering popular culture before some of the more serious newspapers did. Cleave was supposedly a close friend of John Lennon, indeed she is often credited with bringing the notorious "more popular than Jesus" remark to public notice. Her style was similar to the gushing and uncritical content which now typifies "Bizarre" in The Sun and the "3am Girls" in the Daily Mirror. This section provided an outlet for satirical comment on the activities of popular musicians of the time. Their antics were usually attributed to "The Turds pop group" (fictional) and their charismatic leader "Spiggy Topes". "The Turds" and "Topes" were originally based on The Beatles and a thinly disguised John Lennon, but the names became applied to any rock star or band whose excesses featured in the popular press (Johnny Rotten and the Sex Pistols, for example). This section first appeared in issue Number 69 in August 1964.
• Neasden United FC, playing in the wonderfully depressingly & surreally named North Circular Relegation League, is a football club from Neasden, North London often used to satirize the state of British football in general with the manager 'ashen-faced supremo Ron Knee, 59' possibly from Ron Atkinson and their only two fans "Sid and Doris Bonkers" playing on the idea of tiny devoted mindless fanbases of unsuccessful football clubs. In this case, spectacularly unsuccessful, as they invariably lose by a double-figure margin & if they score it's "one boot", flying of the foot of their ageing striker Baldy Pevsner, who usually chips in with several own goals. The reports are written by "E.I. Addio", a punning reference to popular football chanting.
• Police log - Neasden Central Police Station – A fictional police station log, satirising current police policies that are met with general contempt and/or disdain. Examples may include an incident in which an elderly woman is attacked by a gang of youths, and is arrested (and unfortunately dies 'of natural causes' in police custody) for infringing on their right to terrorise OAPs, or the officers who arrest themselves for ordering a Full English, in direct contravention of the Celtic Minority (Non-Discriminatory Breakfast Provision) Regulations 2006.

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Mini-sections

Main article: List of regular mini-sections in Private Eye

The magazine contains a variety of regular "spots", consisting of small amusing examples of different aspects of everyday life, generally taken from everyday life themselves and sent in by readers, such as "Colemanballs", gaffes by sports commentators with less than adequate command of the English language, or "Dumb Britain", particularly shocking examples of lacking in knowledge taken from British quiz shows. The following is a list of regularly appearing mini-sections appearing in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. ...

Prime Minister parodies

An almost constant fixture in Private Eye is a full page lampooning the prime minister of the day. The style of the page is always the same, and tries to sum up some fundamental characteristic of the person involved. Occasionally, formerly defunct columns of this type resurface (e.g. Dear Bill, on the death of Denis Thatcher). In reverse historical order: The Dear Bill letters were a regular feature in the British satirical magazine Private Eye. ...

• Prime Ministerial Decrees – portrays Gordon Brown as a communist dictator. Additionally, the magazine runs a comic strip called The Broons, portraying Brown and some of his cabinet as grotesque cartoon characters in the style of the long-running Scottish comic strip The Broons; all dialogue is conducted in very thick Scots dialect.
• St. Albion Parish News (defunct) – the main focus of the magazine's satire against Tony Blair, who is characterised as a sanctimonious Church of England vicar and his government as various parish officials. Blair often receives updates from his transatlantic confidant, George Bush, from the "Church of the Latter-Day Morons". From 1997-2001, during the presidency of Bill Clinton the correspondence was described as coming from "The Church of the 7th Day Fornicators" in reference to Clinton's alleged womanising.
• The Secret Diary of John Major (aged 47¾) (defunct) – A spoof weekly diary entry based on The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (aged 13¾) in which John Major was typically characterised as being hopelessly naïve and optimistic. The diary reappears occasionally, such as when his affair with Edwina Currie was discovered, when Major was made a KG and after he attended the funeral of Edward Heath.
• Dear Bill (defunct) – spoof letters from Denis Thatcher to Bill Deedes, about life in 10 Downing Street with Margaret. The series portrayed Denis as a sozzled rightist alcoholic staggering between snifters.
• (There was no parody of James Callaghan)
• Heathco Newsletter (defunct) – an internal missive purportedly from the managing director of a struggling small firm called Heathco, in which Edward Heath (managing director) keeps his staff up to date and in high spirits with the latest company news. Cabinet ministers would be recast as petty managers and clerks in this satire. The company's logo was a stylised yacht. The newsletters invariably ended with a request to staff which admonished them for stubbing their cigarettes out in the plastic cups in which the canteen served them with tea.
• Mrs Wilson's Diary (defunct) – a chronicle of the events in Harold Wilson's life, from the more down-to-earth and homely perspective of his wife, Mrs Wilson. The series was later adapted to theatre and television. Based on a contemporary radio soap opera Mrs Dale's Diary. Mrs Wilson's Diary inspired a similar feature in the American magazine National Lampoon: Mrs Agnew's Diary, purporting to be the actual journal of Vice President Spiro Agnew's wife. Indeed, several National Lampoon features were "borrowed" from Private Eye.

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Miscellanea

• The cover, with its famous speech bubble, putting ironic or humorous comments into the mouths of the famous in response to topical events.
• Letters – readers' letters section which frequently includes letters from the famous and powerful, often so that the Eye can print an apology and thereby avoid litigation. Some people use the page as a voice to express disgust at a recent Eye article and, infamously (or jokingly), end by saying they will cancel their subscription. This section also prints the lookalikes and occasionally prints the embarrassing picture of Andrew Neil described below.
• Crossword – a cryptic prize crossword, notable for its vulgarity. In the early 1970s the crossword was set by the Labour MP Tom Driberg, under the pseudonym of "Tiresias" (supposedly "a distinguished academic churchman"). It is currently set by Eddie James under the name "Cyclops". The crossword is frequently pornographic and, by all measures, usually intensely offensive. The prize for the first correct solution opened, £100, is unusually high for a crossword and attracts many entrants.
• Classified – adverts from readers. Years ago people with odd sexual tastes would make contact with others via Private Eye's personal ads, using code words (using the names of motor cycles to describe various sexual acts, for example). However, nowadays the classified adverts usually consist of people selling wine or websites, or conspiracy theorists promoting their ideas. Includes the "Eye Need" adverts in which people beg for money. Spike Milligan once placed an ad that ran: "Spike Milligan would like to meet a rich, well-insured widow – intention: murder" and reported receiving several dozen replies.
• Old Testament parody – a spoof of the Old Testament, applying Bibilical language and imagery particularly reminiscent of the King James Bible to current affairs in the Middle East.

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Defunct sections

Apart from the former Prime Minister parodies mentioned above, several sections are no longer printed. These include:

• Auberon Waugh's Diary; Waugh wrote a regular diary for the magazine, usually combining real events from his own life with fictional flights of fancy (i.e. pretending he had been to parties with the Queen), from the early 1970s until 1985. It was generally written in the persona of an ultra-right-wing country gentleman, a subtle exaggeration of his own personality. He described it as the world's first example of journalism specifically dedicated to telling lies.
• London Calling – a round-up of news, especially of the most barking loony left variety, during the days of the GLC. This column was retired when the GLC was abolished.
• Sally Deedes – genuine consumer journalism column, often exposing spectacularly corrupt or improper goods, services and/or dealings. Sally Deedes (author unknown) was the origin of the Eye's first-ever libel victory in the mid-1990s; column was quietly ditched a few years later.
• Illustrated London News – a digest of news and scandal from the metropolis, parodying (and using the masthead of) the defunct gazette of the same name. Usually written by the radical pioneer journalist Claud Cockburn. Later replaced (c.1984) with -
• Grovel – a 'society' column, featuring gossip, scandal and scuttlebutt about the rich and famous, and probably the most-sued section in the whole magazine. The character and style of Grovel (a clearly tired and emotional man with a monocle, top hat and cigarette holder) was based on former GLE (Greatest Living Englishman), Nigel Dempster, lampooned as 'Nigel Pratt-Dumpster'. Grovel was replaced in about 1996 with –
• Hallo! – the 'heart-warming column' purportedly written by The Marquesa, practically identical in content but with a new prose style parodying the breathless and gushing format established by magazines such as Hello, in which celebrities showed reporters around their lovely houses, etc. Hallo! itself disappeared in about 2000.
• Thomas, The Privatised Tank Engine – a parody of Rev. W. Awdry's Railway Series, by Incledon Clark published at the time of the debate over railway privatisation in 1993-4. The criticisms of the privatised railway that was being created turned out to be prescient to an astonishing degree.
• Wimmin – a regular 80s section featuring quotes from feminist writing deemed to be ridiculous (similar to Pseuds Corner).

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Cartoons

As well as many one-off cartoons, the magazine features several comic strips:

• Bores (defunct) – Michael Heath
• Yobs and Yobettes – Tony Husband Satirising yob (Chav) culture (or lack thereof)
• Supermodels – Neil Kerber satirising their lifestyle – the characters are infeasibly thin
• The Commuters (defunct) – Grizelda - follows the efforts of two commuters to get a train to work.
• It's Grim Up North London – Knife & Packer satire about Islington trendies
• Young British Artists – Birch - a spoof of artists such as "Tracey" (Emin) and "Damien" (Hirst).
• Off Your Trolley (defunct) – Reeve & Way - set in an NHS hospital
• Apparently – Mike Barfield
• The Premiersh*ts – Paul Wood (cartoonist) - about the state of professional football and footballers
• Celeb – Charles Peattie and Mark Warren
• Snipcock & Tweed – Nick Newman - two book publishers
• The Directors – Dredge & Rigg – comments on the excesses of boardroom fat cats
• The Cloggies (defunct) – Bill Tidy – an everyday story of clog-dancing folk
• Hom Sap (defunct) – Austin
• Scenes you seldom see
• Battle for Britain (defunct) – a satire of British politics (1983-1987) in terms of World War II
• EUphemisms – Features a European Union (EU) official making a statement, with the caption giving what it means in real terms, generally depicting the EU in a negative light. An example:, a French Minister (indicated by the French Flag behind him) declaring "The Euro is not a failure" with the caption reading "I'm using the word "not" in its loosest possible sense".
• Barry McKenzie (defunct) – was a very popular strip in the mid-Sixties detailing the adventures of an expatriate Aussie at large in Earl's Court and elsewhere, written by Barry Humphries (aka Dame Edna Everage) and drawn by Nicholas Garland, later a political cartoonist in the heavyweight dailies.
• Dave Snooty - A recent addition to the magazine. Drawn in the style of The Beano, it parodies David Cameron as “Dave Snooty” (a reference to the character ‘’Lord Snooty’’ from The Beano); who ends up involved in all kinds of public schoolboy-type antics (Often involving members of his shadow cabinet).

Additionally, currently and in the past it has used the work of Ralph Steadman, Wally Fawkes, Timothy Birdsall, Martin Honeysett, Willie Rushton, Gerald Scarfe, Bill Tidy, Robert Thompson, Ken Pyne, Geoff Thompson, "Jerodo", Ed McLauchlan, "Pearsall", Kevin Woodcock, Brian Bagnall and Kathryn Lamb. Michael John Heath is a prolific British strip and political cartoonist, and illustrator. ... Look up chav, charva in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen. ... , Islington is the central district of the London Borough of Islington. ... Tracey Emin RA (born 3 July 1963) is an English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin, one of the group known as Britartists or YBAs (Young British Artists). ... The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living by Damien Hirst (1991) Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed Young British Artists (or YBAs). ... Charles Peattie is a British cartoonist. ... Mark Warren (born January 4, 1960) is one of only 10 match officials from the United Kingdom to have been a match official in a FIFA World Cup Final. ... Nick Newman is a topical cartoonist for the British satirical magazine, Private Eye. ... // Fat cat is slang term which describes a rich, greedy person who, due to ownership of large amounts of capital, is able to live easy off the work of others. ... The Cloggies, an Everyday Story of Clog-Dancing Folk , was a long running cartoon by Bill Tidy which ran in the Private Eye satirical magazine. ... Bill Tidy MBE (October 9, 1933--) is a British cartoonist, known chiefly for his comic strips: The Fosdyke Saga (Daily Mirror) The Cloggies (Private Eye) Grimbledon Down (New Scientist) Dr. Whittle (General Practitioner) Kegbuster (Whats Brewing?) External links Bill Tidys home page Categories: People stubs | 1933 births | British... Clogging is a traditional type of percussive folk dance which is common in the Appalachian Region of the United States, associated with the predecessor to bluegrass - old time music which is based on Irish and Scots-Irish fiddle tunes. ... David Austin (March 29, 1935 — November 19, 2005) was a British cartoonist. ... Battle For Britain was a satirical strip published in the satirical British magazine Private Eye. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Barry McKenzie or Bazza McKenzie is a fictional character originally created by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries for a comic strip in the magazine Private Eye. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Earls Court is a place in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in London, England. ... John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (born 17 February 1934 in Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian comedian, satirist and character actor best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife,