How is Trump’s threat to sue the BBC for up to $5 billion likely to play out?
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast, on YouTube.
23.11.2025 14:05 — 👍 30 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1
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21.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW
This week: Shakedowns, Coups and COP 30
The team discuss Donald Trump’s legal methods, the mayhem in the UK government (part 94) and what’s really going on at the Amazon climate summit.
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Do you rely on others for support?
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Migrant barracks
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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All this appears to be mirroring the chaotic £186.6m Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), which opened a decade ago.
Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back
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Five of the survivors’ liaison panel members have already stepped back amid calls for safeguarding minister Jess Phillips to resign, while another five have said they will only stay if Phillips does.
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With the national grooming gangs inquiry imploding before it can begin amid controversies over who chairs it and what its scope is, not to mention questions about its independence and survivors losing trust and complaining of being controlled – it could be 2015 all over again.
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Very Posh and Becks: David knighted at last
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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“You muppet - you’re holding the map upside down”
From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1419, May 2016.
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“Remind me to add ‘philanthropist’ to my LinkedIn profile”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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“They’ve accidentally released you?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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They show its financial fortunes heading roughly the same way as the Tories’ political ones.
Full story by the Eye’s new business columnist ‘Gold Digger’ in the latest issue.
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14.11.2025 10:43 — 👍 65 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Better late (about nine months) than never, the publishing and political media group of long-time Conservative backer and sometime tax exile Lord Ashcroft, Biteback Publishing, has filed its 2023/24 accounts.
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PLUS news from the Rotten Boroughs of Halton, Birmingham, Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, Enfield, and Oldham in the new Eye. AS WELL AS a Reform round-up.
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Worryingly, families told the Eye, the county councillor responsible co-owns a private care company and they fear he may benefit from closure plans.
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Reform in Lancashire threatens closing five day centres and five care homes, with “reprovision” forcing disabled or older adults (including a 106-year-old) into alternative support.
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YouTube video by Private Eye Magazine
The Grand Old Duke Of Yuck
Watch the full episode of Page 94, the Private Eye podcast
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13.11.2025 20:58 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Many royal correspondents have said it would be difficult for Brian to strip Andrew of his titles, as it would require a huge amount of parliamentary time.
But Britain managed to de-king Edward VIII... and it only took a morning.
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The Trump World View
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Number crunching: Increase in accidental prisoner releases
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Said one seasoned oval-ball expert, “It was amazing to see Joe Marler’s brain working better than anybody else’s in Celebrity Traitors.”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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A photo of the front cover of issue 1662 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The front cover reads “BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special” and shows Broadcasting House with speech bubbles coming from the building. The quotes include “Donald Trump says we broadcast fake news!”, “Nigel Farage says we’re totally biased!”, “Boris Johnson says we’re liars!”, “The Daily Mail says we’re peddling conspiracy theories!”, “Kemi Badenoch highlights poor leadership!”, “The Daily Telegraph says we’re editing for political purposes!”, and “Liz Truss says we’ve done huge damage to the country!”
BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special
The new Private Eye is out now.
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So in the end, the man who Davie (ironically considered a Tory) appointed in 2022 to stop the next crisis ended up causing his demise.
Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.
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12.11.2025 17:39 — 👍 152 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 1
One, ex-Sunday Times political editor turned lobbyist Michael Prescott, had worked at PR firm Hanover. While at the BBC, Prescott raised internal concerns about editorial standards - but after leaving this summer, he went to his old media contacts with a list of the BBC’s failings.
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