What’s the Point of Private Eye?
16 December 2024
by David Craig
Lucy Letby’s lawyers have said they have new evidence that "significantly" undermines her convictions after a key medical witness changed his mind about three baby deaths. They urge the Court of Appeal to reopen the case.
Nigel Farage's milkshake attacker has been spared jail in a ruling by the same judge, Tan Ikram, who jailed a police officer for a WhatsApp message but let off the 'punch a TERF' trans activist and the 'paraglider girls'.
What exactly is the point of Private Eye? On the biggest stories of our time – the 'climate crisis', Covid origins, mRNA vaccines – it has taken an unswervingly establishment line, says David Craig. Is the BBC to blame?
Rachel from Accounts strikes again! Businesses are cutting jobs at the fastest pace in four years following Labour's record tax-raising Budget, as (actual) economists warn of the rising risk of recession.
The Chairman of the College of Policing has said the police need to rethink the investigation and recording 'non-crime hate incidents'. Welcome news, since the College came up with the concept in the first place.
NHS hospitals are telling patients, visitors and staff to wear face masks due to rising levels of winter bugs and low vaccine take-up, despite the lack of good evidence that they work.
Politics professor James Alexander has finally got round to reading part one of Baroness Hallett's report. It's a dull pudding, he says, but does contain a few raisins.
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ‘climate emergency’, public health ‘crises’ and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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