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?
Gareth Roberts laments Private Eye's diminished satirical edge, attributing it to complacency and a failure to engage with societal changes, leaving readers nostalgic for its sharper, more impartial past.
After a few months of the Hallett pantomime, it's quite clear that the Covid Inquiry is not about evidence-based policy. Time to put it out of its misery, say Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson.
Private Eye has attacked Konstantin Kisin – the latest example of its implacable hostility to anyone non-woke. It has ceased to be a satirical magazine and become an instrument of ideological enforcement – Pravda Eye.
Private Eye's MD has written about the Covid vaccines and excess deaths and suggested they're probably not involved. However, his argument, while polite, is full of holes.
