During the early 2000s Private Eye published many stories on the MMR vaccine controversy, supporting the interpretation by Andrew Wakefield of published research in The Lancet by the Royal Free Hospital's Inflammatory Bowel Disease Study Group, which described an apparent link between the vaccine and autism and bowel problems. Many of these stories accused medical researchers who supported the vaccine's safety of having conflicts of interest because of funding from the pharmaceutical industry.

Obituaries, Telegraph (1 September 2023). "Hilary Lowinger, long-serving gatekeeper, counsellor and keeper of secrets at Private Eye – obituary". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 5 September 2023.Calder, Barnabas (21 April 2016). Raw concrete: the beauty of brutalism. London. p.331. ISBN 9781448151295. OCLC 1012156615. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link) Private Eye Wins Court Case!". Private Eye. No.1237. 29 May 2009. Archived from the original on 30 May 2009. I was waiting for a response from them, and I haven’t had one. I thought maybe I’d get a response, even privately, before the current issue came out… it’s out today [Wednesday 1 November], and they haven’t [made] any response – inside the magazine or personally to me.

The magazine has many recurring in-jokes and convoluted references, often comprehensible only to those who have read the magazine for many years. They include euphemisms designed to avoid the notoriously plaintiff-friendly English libel laws, such as replacing the word "drunk" with " tired and emotional", [39] [40] or using the phrase "Ugandan discussions" to denote illicit sexual exploits; [39] and more obvious parodies utilising easily recognisable stereotypes, such as the lampooning of Conservative MPs as " Sir Bufton Tufton". Some of the terms have fallen into disuse when their hidden meanings have become better known. Andrew Osmond – Obituary". The Guardian. 19 April 1999. Archived from the original on 28 November 2016 . Retrieved 12 December 2016. Eyeplayer (see iPlayer) Videos and Audio since 2008. [43] Flash, hosted MP3s, and YouTube videos. Including phone-related pieces, [44] audio performances at the Lyttelton Theatre, and Private Eye: A Review Of 2016, 2015, and 2014. On This Day, 1989". BBC. 2008. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008 . Retrieved 11 August 2016. a b Greenslade, Roy (2004). Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits From Propaganda. London: Pan Macmillan. pp.440–441. ISBN 9780330393768.Supermodels by Neil Kerber – satirising the lifestyle of supermodels; the characters are unfeasibly thin. EUphemisms by RGJ – features a European Union bureaucrat making a statement, with a caption suggesting what it means in real terms, depicting the EU in a negative or hypocritical light. For example, an EU official declares: "Punishing Britain for Brexit would show the world we've lost the plot", with the caption reading: "We're going to punish Britain for Brexit. We've lost the plot". Private Eye has long been known for attracting libel lawsuits which, in English law, can easily lead to the award of damages. The publication maintains a "fighting fund," [ citation needed] although the magazine frequently finds other ways to defuse legal tensions, such as by printing letters from aggrieved parties. As editor since 1986, Ian Hislop is one of the most sued people in Britain. [63] From 1969 to the mid-1980s, the magazine was represented by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Bindman. [64] The Rotten Boroughs column focuses on actual or alleged wrongdoing in local or regional governments and elections, for example, corruption, nepotism, hypocrisy, and incompetence. The column's name derives from the 18th-century rotten boroughs. This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)

A-list libel lawyer dies". BBC News. 21 December 2003. Archived from the original on 23 December 2003 . Retrieved 15 March 2006. Shareholders as of the annual company return dated 26 March 2021 [update], including shareholders who have inherited shares, are: Some contributors to Private Eye are media figures or specialists in their field who write anonymously, often under humorous pseudonyms, such as "Dr B Ching" (a reference to the Beeching cuts) who writes the "Signal Failures" column about the railways. Stories sometimes originate from writers for more mainstream publications who cannot get their stories published by their main employers. Private Eye at 60 shows winning formula of bad jokes and brilliant journalism". The National . Retrieved 1 February 2022.

Ingrams, Richard (12 June 2005). "Diary: Dishonourable, dishonest". The Observer. Archived from the original on 19 September 2014 . Retrieved 15 August 2013. A July 2011 cover following the closure of the News of the World, making ironic use of a famous 1982 headline from The Sun The presence of Ingrams at this second talk meant more anecdotes about the 1960s satire boom – for example that it was Willie Rushton who persuaded Gerald Scarfe to stop drawing desert island gags and have a go at caricature.