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Private Eye magazine has been keeping me sane for over thirty years. Whenever I see another political, business, or legal scam or hype unfolding, I find refuge and humour within the pages of this freedom from censorship chronicle.

Good things often happen to me when I'm holding Private Eye. A few Wednesdays ago I was in the news agents picking up the latest issue. The front cover featured the latest Royal wedding and the speech bubble from the Queen stated "Here comes the bribe". I laughed out loud and frightened a little old lady standing next to me buying her knitting monthly.

I apologised profusely.

"Let me see what made you laugh", she said with just a glimmer of a smile.

I showed her the cover. She pondered it for at least fifteen seconds then started tittering. The titter turned into a slight chuckle, then bust into a full-blown belly laugh. The people in the shop all looked at us. We didn't care.

"Thank you, young man", she said between the laughter. "You've made my day.

'Young man', I thought. Lady, you've just made mine.

It's hard to pick a favourite cover from the 1,212 printed to date. One of my favs was when Ted Heath was P.M. and the sailors were taking industrial action. It featured a picture of Ted with a pained and disgusted look on his face. The headline read:- "Seaman Strike. Heath Steps In"

Apart from the excellent cartoons, the regular columns are a joy to read. Street of Shame, Ad Nauseam, HP Sauce, Brussels Sprouts, Number Crunching, TV Eye, MediaNews, Rotten Boroughs, Funny Old World, Glenda Slagg, In The Back, In the City, and, most of all, Colemanballs are a 'must read' for me every other Wednesday.

An ambition of mine is to appear in Colemanballs. How about this extract from my BBC Saturday Programme?

Dave: I hear the BBC is the main target for people working in the Product Placement business.

Emily: Where did you read that?

Dave: In the Times, I bought at Tesco on my way to work......

Unfortunately, that was scripted for the show, real Colemanballs must be for real.

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God bless Ian, Barry, Steve and all the Private Eyers. The spirit of Magna Carter still lives within your pages.

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