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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

...Humour, Timing and the Truth

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Paddy Gilmore | HumourScope®
Oct 24, 2022
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Picture this:

You’re the editor of Private Eye, Britain’s leading satirical magazine. You’re sitting at your desk in Soho, Central London. It’s the afternoon of September 8th, 2022. There’s a sudden knock at the door. One of your colleagues appears in the doorway.

“The Queen’s died.”

Her death was followed by several days of official mourning, huge medi…

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