Private Eye Number Crunching

Issue 1685

£900m - Independent commission’s measure of how much Manchester City ‘artificially inflated’ revenues and reduced costs ‘to appear to comply with financial rules’, with no sign yet of criminal action

£1,500 - Smallest branch shortfall over which a sub-postmaster was (wrongly) prosecuted for false accounting

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Article on BBC not about Celebrity Traitors shock... Ugly scenes as politics breaks out at party conferences... Doomsday Irony clock one ironic minute closer to Ironygeddon... The Grim Brandeath strikes again... Leaky defence costs Man City victory... Call for end to decade of division proves divisive... Can Britain learn from the Russian budget?... Does Strictly really need three viewers?... ‘BBC DG could be AI in the future’ say all presenters... The 90s: art and fashion, as told to Craig Brown

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The astonishing costs of prison repairs

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How the farm subsidy scheme became a total farce

Catching the Sun
Kemi Badenoch’s media charm offensive

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