Post Mortem
By Richard Brooks
27th November 2025
The Post Office Horizon IT Scandal
The first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people. Private Eye tells the story of the political, institutional, professional and personal failures, written in the hope that the lessons of the Post Office scandal will guard against such abuses in future. With a foreword by Sir Alan Bates.
In This Issue
Huge embarrassment over Bayeux by our Loom Correspondent, Jackie Weaver… Pick of the movies: Piddington Bear… London Fascist Week begins… That Russian Election: Photo Diary of a Surprise Victory… Have They Become Sentient? By our AI reporter Chat G.P. Tee… School News: St Custard Creams and St Hobknobs … Sir Herbert Gusset on Sydney Sweeney: Letter to the Editor… Ironyometers still malfunctioning as world events prove too much… Eric Idle in Provence, as told to Craig Brown.
Oxfamine
The charity’s ill-starred online shopping venture
Rich tapestry
Peter Thiel and George Osborne’s shared interests
Friends with benefits
Angela Rayner’s puzzling fondness for data centres
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Oxfamine
The charity’s ill-starred online shopping venture
Rich tapestry
Peter Thiel and George Osborne’s shared interests
Friends with benefits
Angela Rayner’s puzzling fondness for data centres
Read these stories and much more - only in the magazine. Subscribe here to get delivery direct to your home and never miss an issue!
