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  • 127 of 127 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 torr

    Member since 29/08/2002

    Reviews written: 348

    5 Stars The Blessing of Gnome Diamond review Review with images 27/10/2011
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Still an amusing antidote to the arrogance of power

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Less funny than it was?

    The fiftieth anniversary issue of Private Eye has just landed through my letter-box, prompting me to reflect on this venerable – and valuable – institution. Having been a regular reader more or less throughout its history, and a subscriber for the past forty years or more, I feel I am as in as good a position as anyone to do so. Eye to Eye Fifty years after its launch, Private Eye is not, of course, what it was, which may be just as well. A magazine of its kind could ill afford to become ossified, and even as I applied words like “venerable” and “institution” to it in the preceding paragraph ... more
  • 26 of 26 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    paule23

    4 Stars Have Eye got Quips for You 13/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Vey witty, lots of content

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Poor print quality

    With a four hour train journey ahead of me I reached into my bag to retrieve my CD player fro some soothing tunes to ease the boredom, then TRAGEDY, bugger, bugger and double bugger! I'd left the bloody thing at home. I had a huge selection of CD's but nothing to play them on, making them about as useful as, well, CD's with no CD player I suppose. The prospect of a four hour train journey without any music wasn't a very enticing prospect, especially as I was travelling by Virgin Trains, so the probability of the journey extending beyond four hours was pretty high! There was nothing else for it ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    rose_of_sharon

    3 Stars Too Few Cooks 09/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages A British institution.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages So is the Queen Muvva.

    At one time at least the covers were good. I’m sure I’ve forgotten better ones, but this is what commemorated the shooting of three IRA members in Gibraltar, accompanying a picture of two crouched and masked soldiers: “Why did you shoot him six times?” “I ran out of bullets.” The cover of the latest issue (#1034) has a picture of Cherie Blair pink and glistening in the Italian sun, with a speech bubble reading: “It’s been a real test for Tony’s sweat problem.” Very satirical, as Private Eye itself might put it, because flat ... more
  • 39 of 39 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ElizaF

    5 Stars Pink panther music please.... 26/09/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Intelligent, funny, letters pages

    Disadvantages Disadvantages occasionally ott, no credited writers

    Price: ****** £1.30 Size: ***** Same as your average Beano :) Weight: ********* Paper weight (boom boom!) Any other: ********** The origional Underground (tube) friendly-sized magazine. Elements: ******** I am not going to review all elements of Private Eye as: 1) We would be here all day and 2) I don't want to ruin it for you The magazine does this amazing balance of revelation journalism covering stories that are too colloquial (corruption in local regional councils) for national papers and not sensational enough for the tabloids (calling for balanced studies into the MMR debate). On the ... more
  • 23 of 23 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    aprose

    4 Stars You will laugh out loud 31/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Still very funny

    Disadvantages Disadvantages has lost its edge

    Private Eye was founded by the brightest stars of sixties satire including the genius that was Peter Cook. At that time, what they were doing had never been done before. Politicians and royalty who were at that time treated with reverence by the mainstream media suddenly found themselves fair game. Of course the sixties were a time of massive social change and Private Eye is a major symbol of this. The years have not been particularly kind to Private Eye and it is now very much part of the very establishment that it has never ceased to attack. Most of the magazine can be read as a kind of ... more
  • 17 of 17 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Sonatine

    5 Stars Wonderfully Satirical and Informative Magazine 31/01/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very funny, sharp & informative; good value, biting satire, shocking revelations

    Disadvantages Disadvantages not enough pages, legitimacy of articles.

    Private Eye is published once every two weeks and just recently celebrated its 1000th edition as one of the UKs top satirical & investigative magazines for many years. Published on A4 sized pulped paper and printed primarily in black & white to save on costs, Private Eye is a magazine that could easily be overlooked on the burdgeoning shelves at the newsagents as it tries to compete against all the snazzy, contemporary coloured & glossy brochures. Edited by political & social commentator, Ian Hislop (also of Have I Got News For You, fame) , the magazine (or "sad comic" as cynics sometimes call ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ordy

    5 Stars Eye love the Eye 15/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny, Well written

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sometimes a bit sick

    Private Eye is a magazine that really grows on you. I have read it for many years, starting as a child when my dad read it. Of course I hardly understood it then but was attracted by some of the cartoons which are excellent. It seeks to dig the dirt on all sorts of interesting people - many of whom are politicians and businessmen. They blew the whistle on Maxwell years before he was found out. They also did the same on Railtrack (or Railcrack as they call them) who have now gone bust. Interestingly they are very much anti Richard Branson (or Beardie as they call him!) so it will be interesting ... more
  • 18 of 18 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    cootuk

    4 Stars Who watches the watchers? 22/07/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Satirical, funny, a little bit sick

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not always the truth, but close enough?

    Private Eye has been a thorn in the side of many governments, people, and industries over the years. The magazine (£1.30 per issue) dishes the dirt that those in power would rather you didn't know. Anyone and anything is fair game. The magazine is packed with cartoons, humourous true stories, satirical fiction, gossip of the great and mighty, and exposees of things that are going on in the world around us. They campaign, they expose, they hound, and they sometimes get sued. Current targets for example include the long running MMR vaccine, Harrods boss Mohamed Fayed, government PFI contracts ... more
  • 3 of 9 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mudvein

    5 Stars satircal bantar for all. 29/04/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages it is very funny

    Disadvantages Disadvantages its not free

    private eye is a magazine/newspaper sold bi-weekly and costs £1.20. Its editor is ian Hislop who features weekly on the programme have i got news for you and if you want to know what this is then you can read my review on it. Private eye has some regualar columns e.g.Dumb Britain (where they get the stupid things that people say on game shows like the weakest link)and going live where they show what funny things have gone wrong when the presenters of programmes have "gone live" Private eye has been running for about 40 yearrs and it takes the mickey out of various polititians. In fac tthey ... more
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