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Private Eye Annual 2025
- GenresNonfictionHumor
96 pages, Hardcover
Published October 30, 2025
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February 15, 2026
It's always good to read the Private Eye if you're looking for a good satirical take on the leading issues, figures and polarisation in the news and far across the world. Edited by Ian Hislop, the Private Eye Annual for 2025 was a good read, however it coild have been slightly better - certainly there is some mischievous personal bias in my review, as there are some personal favourite articles/comic characterisations of mine missing from the Private Eye round-up this year, and it is always disappointing to not see them. However, once again this is a great highlight of coverage from the year!
January 27, 2026
There is something really comforting in the annual tradition of Private Eye releasing a best of the year. And the worse the world gets, the better the Eye gets.
As always there's the satirical content, and it's weird looking back at it, and seeing how much has changed, and how much has stayed the same. Trump had just taken office, Charles and Harry weren't talking, Farage was being, well Farage, and the Irony meters were blowing up all over the place. It starts with Starmer getting stick for the amount of freebies he was getting, I'm sure he didn't foresee that being the easiest of his issues. Nothing is every really off limits, Gaza and Israel get as much attention as they deserve, and they do point out that one of their cartoons got a reader arrested.
Along side that, there is the collections of the normal columns, Commentator Balls, Dumb Britain, Lookalike etc. which is always good for a laugh.
And then there are the cartoons. The Eye has always been a champion of the art of cartooning, and the selection here shows that they are still printing some of the best in the current press.
I do worry how they will keep going as the world seems to become a parody of itself, but as long as they keep printing it, I will keep getting it
As always there's the satirical content, and it's weird looking back at it, and seeing how much has changed, and how much has stayed the same. Trump had just taken office, Charles and Harry weren't talking, Farage was being, well Farage, and the Irony meters were blowing up all over the place. It starts with Starmer getting stick for the amount of freebies he was getting, I'm sure he didn't foresee that being the easiest of his issues. Nothing is every really off limits, Gaza and Israel get as much attention as they deserve, and they do point out that one of their cartoons got a reader arrested.
Along side that, there is the collections of the normal columns, Commentator Balls, Dumb Britain, Lookalike etc. which is always good for a laugh.
And then there are the cartoons. The Eye has always been a champion of the art of cartooning, and the selection here shows that they are still printing some of the best in the current press.
I do worry how they will keep going as the world seems to become a parody of itself, but as long as they keep printing it, I will keep getting it
December 30, 2025
Always a good read
January 31, 2026
Usual level ,some very funny pieces others not .
Ok loo read .
Ok loo read .
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