Hugh O'Neill

Operations and Quality Director, PHARMASEAL.

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“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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“If you think this is overcrowded, wait until you see their trains”

From the Private Eye archive.
Issue 1504, September 2019.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China 👇 I've never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens.

The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, the most prestigious university in China.

Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan.

Yan Xuetong truly doesn't hold back:
- When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in Gaza, he replies: "You killed more than 70,000 civilians!... The fact is not decided by you... It is not decided by your government. Your government has no legitimacy or the right to decide or defend what is fact"
- And when told that the war will end when Hamas release hostages he replies: "No, this kind of propaganda have too many. No one believe it! Too many! Too much! No one believe it, except a few Israelis"

[Guz Khan 🥶 @GuzKhanOfficial]

This isn’t about Muslims and Jews. This is about wrong and RIGHT.

An honour to be the in presence of Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos and your beautiful daughter. 🤲🏽❤️

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The Onion is undefeated.

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How politics works

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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As ever with Trump, looking too deeply for a strategic explanation of his actions is a mistake, writes ‘Lady Liberty’ in the new Private Eye, out today.

Trump has always chafed against the reality of containing Iran because he associates it with Barack Obama’s nuclear deal, from which he withdrew in 2018. (That deal included inspection access to Iranian enrichment sites.)

Second, although Trump bridled at being called a TACO over his tariff threats (because “Trump always chickens out”), a better nickname would be TABB: Trump always backs Bibi. He finds Benjamin Netanyahu’s combination of recklessness and iron-clad certainty irresistible.

Full story in the mag.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The Onion never misses

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Billionaires make bad politicians. Musk and Trump think business smarts translate to government, but politics isn’t about ego, speed, or winning at all costs. It’s compromise, not control. And history shows: when entrepreneurs enter politics, chaos usually follows.

Full story by ‘Slicker’ in the latest issue.

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

Remembering my friend and colleague, the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead three years ago in Jenin in the West Bank. Israel has acknowledged that she was ‘probably’ shot by one of its soldiers, but no one has been prosecuted for her killing.

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Two of the charming Reform candidates the Eye featured last issue won seats in the local elections: Ronald Firman in West Northants, who had joked about being in the Ku Klux Klan and throwing refugees out of planes, and Luke Parker in Lancashire, who made a false claim that a care home scheduled for closure was be used to house asylum seekers.

PLUS news from the Rotten Boroughs of Ludlow, Lambeth, Gloucestershire, Newcastle, East Suffolk, and the Isle of Wight in the new Eye.

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Nigel Farage says Kemi Badenoch "doesn’t know what hard work is" - but he's certainly keeping busy himself. 

In just six months, he's raked in over £570,000 from GB News, gold bullion deals, social media, and public speaking - all while jetting to the US eight times.

Farage works incredibly hard for all manner of paymasters - except, possibly, for the people of Clacton.

Full story online and in the latest issue: https://t.co/jxs9sNRMtO

For the rest, including cartoons, Pseuds, Dumb Britain and all the other regulars, you’ll have to buy the magazine.

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Donald Trump. An Apology.

The new Private Eye is out now

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Donald Tusk, "I am aware this is a dream of mine"

"That instead of Brexit, we will have a Breturn"

"Perhaps I am labouring under an illusion. I'd rather be an optimist and harbour these dreams in my heart. Sometimes they come true in politics"

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Commentatorballs. These are real quotes from real sports commentators, sent in by readers.

Watch 'An Evening with Private Eye 2024' in full, on YouTube now.

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The government has shelved its Renters (Reform) Bill, which aimed to ban "no-fault" Section 21 evictions, after pressure from some landlord Tory MPs.

Jacob Rees-Mogg criticised the bill and lobbied against it, claiming it would drive landlords away from the profession and worsen renters' conditions.

Coincidentally Rees-Mogg is himself a landlord, receiving rental income from a residential property in London as well as from farm buildings and land in Somerset.

Full story online and in the latest issue: https://t.co/mMLhNixVfC

[Anna Turley MP @annaturley]

Worth a listen to this excellent @NorthernAgenda_ podcast here at 6:55 where Houchen is questioned by the forensic @PrivateEyeNews journalist @rbrooks45 over the value for money of his Teesworks deal and does not like the challenge…

https://t.co/7vlptZU1pa

[The Future ... @AnthonyisNo1]

@hendopolis

[Tez @tezilyas]

So no to Boris Johnson and yes to Sadiq Khan??

👍🏽

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Liz Truss: “The media conspired against me”
Reality: 👇