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A July 2011 cover following the closure of the News of the World, making ironic use of a famous 1982 headline from The Sun The first half of each issue, which consists chiefly of news reporting and investigative journalism, tends to include these in-jokes more subtly, to maintain journalistic integrity, while the second half, generally characterised by unrestrained parody and cutting humour, tends to present itself in a more confrontational way. Dave Snooty and his New Pals – drawn in the style of The Beano, it parodied David Cameron as "Dave Snooty" (a reference to the Beano character " Lord Snooty"), involved in public schoolboy-type behaviour with members of his cabinet. Cameron is portrayed as wearing an Eton College uniform with bow tie, tailcoat, waistcoat, and pinstriped trousers. During the early 2000s Private Eye published many stories on the MMR vaccine controversy, supporting the interpretation by Andrew Wakefield of published research in The Lancet by the Royal Free Hospital's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, which described an apparent link between the vaccine and autism and bowel problems. Many of these stories accused medical researchers who supported the vaccine's safety of having conflicts of interest because of funding from the pharmaceutical industry. Calder, Barnabas (21 April 2016). Raw concrete: the beauty of brutalism. London. p.331. ISBN 9781448151295. OCLC 1012156615. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

a b "Alan Cowell: Letter from Britain". The New York Times. 30 June 2005. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 13 August 2019. Carpenter, Humphrey. (2003) A great, silly grin: The British satire boom of the 1960s (Da Capo Press, 2003). Castella, Tom de (30 October 2013). "Press regulation: The 10 major questions" . Retrieved 13 August 2019. a b Hodgson, Jessica (7 November 2001). "Private Eye hails libel victory". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 October 2020. They always know pretty much what the cover should be, but a really good one can add 50,000 readers. Newman’s proudest recent cover was a very simple joke: a pre-election Trump pointing his fingers to his head like a gun, with the line: “Vote Trump, it’s a no brainer”. “The great thing was that Trump tweeted it, saying ‘British media gets behind me,’” Newman says.Pay up, pay up and play the game!". Private Eye. Archived from the original on 28 June 2017 . Retrieved 25 June 2017. In 2009, Private Eye successfully challenged an injunction brought against it by Michael Napier, the former head of the Law Society, who had sought to claim "confidentiality" over a report that he had been disciplined by the Law Society for a conflict of interest. [82] The ruling had wider significance in that it allowed other rulings by the Law Society to be publicised. [83] Ownership [ edit ]

The Regulars also by Michael Heath – is based on the drinking scene at the Coach and Horses pub in London (a regular meeting place for the magazine's staff and guests), and features the catchphrase "Jeff bin in?" (a reference to pub regular, the journalist Jeffrey Bernard). Dowell, Ben (16 February 2012). "Private Eye hits highest circulation for more than 25 years". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014 . Retrieved 28 March 2013. UK Tax Haven Map [47] – searchable map of properties, in England and Wales, owned by offshore companies.The Street of Shame responds". The Economist. 21 January 2012. ISSN 0013-0613 . Retrieved 13 August 2019.

Letters". Private Eye. London: Pressdram Ltd (1221): 13. October 2008. Mr Callaghan is referred to the Eye's reply in the famous case of Arkell v. Pressdram (1971). Young British Artists by Birch – a spoof of the Young British Artists movement such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Gibb, Frances (21 May 2009). "Failure to gag Private Eye clears the way to publication of rulings against lawyers". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. A-list libel lawyer dies". BBC News. 21 December 2003. Archived from the original on 23 December 2003 . Retrieved 15 March 2006.Private Eye has long been known for attracting libel lawsuits which, in English law, can easily lead to the award of damages. The publication maintains a "fighting fund," [ citation needed] although the magazine frequently finds other ways to defuse legal tensions, such as by printing letters from aggrieved parties. As editor since 1986, Ian Hislop is one of the most sued people in Britain. [63] From 1969 to the mid-1980s, the magazine was represented by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman. [64]