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Brexit Good News Delayed

Having posted threads detailing what a disaster Brexit has been for the UK (from the loss of billions of pounds in exports, to the loss of key-workers etc, etc); nearly two weeks ago I posted an...
13:25 Wed 27th Oct 202133 answers, last by naomi24 06:28 Thu 28th Oct 2021
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Vehicle Lane Assist – Boeing 737 Max

My 10 year old car is not fitted with such a function; the only time I have seen such in operation was a few years ago in a car driven by a friend – who demonstrated it while travelling on a motorway....
10:31 Sat 23rd Oct 20216 answers, last by Ellipsis 16:45 Mon 25th Oct 2021
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Vehicle Indictors Not Working

A work colleague recently experienced a fault on his 20 plate Dacia Duster – where none of the right turn indicators were working. Before a repair was effected, a number of us offered possible...
09:56 Sat 23rd Oct 20211 answer, last by davebro 10:01 Sat 23rd Oct 2021
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Southeastern Train Services Taken Over By Government

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-58939209 If BBC news staff subscribed to Private Eye, they would have been informed of this last Wednesday (on receipt of their copy), rather than having to wait...
13:34 Sun 17th Oct 202111 answers, last by gulliver1 18:01 Mon 18th Oct 2021
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Brexit Good News Stories Coming Soon

Following complaints of Brexit bias within Private Eye, a letter published in the current issue includes the following:- ‘I would welcome those writing to complain of your biased coverage to name a...
20:49 Sat 16th Oct 202115 answers, last by tommy39 17:17 Sun 17th Oct 2021
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And Yet Another Fine Piece Of Dm Journalism With The Value Of The House Prominent In The Article

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10077633/Woman-40s-arrested-murder-51-year-old-man-knew-dead-400K-house.html...
19:55 Sun 10th Oct 202110 answers, last by naomi24 08:24 Mon 11th Oct 2021
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The Telegraph And Ipso

The latest edition of Private Eye has an interesting article on the Telegraph and Ipso (the Independent Press Standards Organisation) – at the risk of copyright infringement, below is the last...
14:24 Sun 10th Oct 20212 answers, last by Hymie 20:15 Mon 11th Oct 2021
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The Sunny Uplands Of Brexit

Over the last year or so, as a remoaner I have been posting details of the impact of Brexit on the UK economy. This has included the loss of billions of pounds worth of exports (which is continuing on...
10:12 Sat 09th Oct 202176 answers, last by New Judge 17:23 Sun 10th Oct 2021
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Are You Struggling To Make Ends Meet On A Salary Of £82K Plus Expenses?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10066255/Tory-Sir-Peter-Bottomley-calls-MPs-paid-100-000-year.html...
07:53 Thu 07th Oct 202146 answers, last by bednobs 19:11 Thu 07th Oct 2021
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Women Not Safe On Our Streets

I first experienced this at around the age of 14, at the time I regularly hung out around my best friend’s house. His mother started a late shift job at a local hospital; she asked her son and me to...
23:04 Sat 02nd Oct 202117 answers, last by tamborine 12:36 Sun 03rd Oct 2021
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Wetherspoons Running Out Of Beer (Courtesy Of Private Eye)

By their Bar Staff: Karl Sburg and Stella Artois As the taps started to run dry in Wetherspoons pubs around the country, boss Tim Martin explained that they were running out of excuses. ‘We are...
07:26 Sat 25th Sep 20211 answer, last by emmie 07:28 Sat 25th Sep 2021
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The Sunny Uplands Of Brexit Continue

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9997163/Marks-Spencer-close-11-stores-France-supply-crisis.html...
21:31 Thu 16th Sep 202134 answers, last by tommy39 23:23 Fri 17th Sep 2021
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I’ve Just Received My Renewed Passport

Those Brexit supporters who voted leave so that they could have a blue passport will be disappointed – mine is black in colour....
21:20 Wed 15th Sep 202121 answers, last by pixie374 13:24 Thu 16th Sep 2021
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Another Fine Piece Of Journalism From The Daily Mail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9992803/Five-year-old-girl-murdered-police-rushed-west-London-home.html Where the all important house price gets prominence within a story about a murdered 5...
20:55 Wed 15th Sep 202111 answers, last by THECORBYLOON 21:26 Thu 16th Sep 2021
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Heathrow Arrivals Delays

Apparently it is taking up to 5 hours for the UK boarder force to clear travellers arriving in the UK at Heathrow. The Home Office response to this debacle is ‘Hard cheese – travellers will have to...
22:21 Wed 01st Sep 202119 answers, last by douglas9401 09:22 Thu 02nd Sep 2021
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Daily Mail Reporting At Its Best

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9938273/Marketing-executive-22-dead-alongside-body-man.html The headline to the story captures what is most important to their readers – not that the woman was...
07:37 Mon 30th Aug 202130 answers, last by jno 22:10 Mon 30th Aug 2021
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School Uniforms

Not having any children, I had no idea this was still going on. When I went to secondary school, the school (as did all the schools in the town) had an arrangement with a local clothes shop who had...
07:17 Mon 30th Aug 202190 answers, last by bednobs 11:54 Thu 02nd Sep 2021
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More Musings From An Idiot (Courtesy Of Private Eye)

'Of all the sensations of joy and release that Nature in her kindness has bestowed on the human race, there is little or nothing to beat the moment when you get rid of the baby’s car seat. It beats...
08:43 Sat 21st Aug 202163 answers, last by Hymie 21:01 Tue 24th Aug 2021
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Olympic Sports Funding

According to this BBC article, the sports received a total funding in excess of £220 million – whilst there might be national pride in our Olympians doing so well, I could think of better things to...
22:11 Sun 08th Aug 20219 answers, last by LocateTranslate2 09:19 Mon 09th Aug 2021
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From The Current Issue Of Private Eye

‘The world population is now 6.7bn, roughly double what is was when I was born. If I live to be in my mid-eighties, then it will have trebled within my lifetime....I simply cannot understand why no...
21:15 Wed 04th Aug 202124 answers, last by sevenOP 21:06 Thu 05th Aug 2021

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