Having reported that not a single letter was published in Private Eye in relation to a reader’s request for Brexit Benefits - the current issue contains a letter headed Brexcellence. Below is a précis...
I’ve never been arrested/charged with drink-driving – but have a question that ABers may be able to answer. The legal drink-drive alcohol limit in England is 35µg/100ml of breath – I’ve read that if...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
