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In the online version of Private Eye:
- Brown bullying hoax... How Fleet St was taken in by a tale of flying citrus fruit
- Big Brussels... Why the EU wants more powers to snoop on its citizens
- NHS IT scandal... The cure that’s as big a shambles as the programme itself
- Dumb Britain... Hear real stupidity, live on stage at the National Theatre

- LATE SCORE:
Private Eye cartoonist Paul Wood wins the Cartoonist of the Year award from the Sports Journalists' Association for his Premiersh*ts strip - only in the Eye.

In the latest edition of the magazine:
- Meet the Mad Monck: Is he the world’s wackiest climate change guru?

Next issue on sale: 16th March.

BIG BRUSSELS IS WATCHING YOU

EMBOLDENED by the Lisbon treaty, Brussels is making an ambitious grab for more surveillance powers. Plans to amass data on individuals and make it available across the continent are contained in an “internal security strategy for the European Union”, approved by justice ministers.

BROWN BULLYING HOAX

PERHAPS inspired by Private Eye’s erstwhile owner Peter Cook, who used to while away the small hours by phoning up London radio station LBC in the guise of a Norwegian fisherman called Sven, comedy writer and producer Robert Popper recently called the Andrew Pierce show on the same network.

NHS IT: A HALF-ARSED SOLUTION

GOVERNMENT efforts to extricate taxpayers from the disastrous £12.7bn NHS IT project are proving as shambolic as the programme itself. The scheme for interconnected systems at all hospitals and patient records available anywhere in the country at the press of a button was launched by Tony Blair in 2002.

Total content spend last year on BBC 6 Music, which Mark Thompson plans to axe

Total salary bill of “top 100 executives” at BBC, which Mark Thompson justifies because “we need the very best people in the world”

Total overspend on building projects by BBC which Mark Thompson cannot justify at all


BBC announces Radio 94 and Asian Weather Channel to be axed... Cheryl Cole dumps husband, unleashes forces of Hello!... Digger admits: I am addicted to sex in my newspapers... Flashman gets beaten: an extract from Gordon Brown’s Schooldays... Andrew Rawnsley’s diary, as told to Craig Brown

For all these stories and much, much, more, buy the latest edition of Private Eye, available now from all good newsagents.

Issue No: 1257
Date: 5th March 2010
Price: £1.50

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