What’s the Point of Private Eye?

First an apology. I’m about to give an opinion of Private Eye magazine. But I don’t actually read it any more. Some years ago I had a subscription. But I cancelled it as I found the magazine seemed to be getting rather boring. I now only buy Private Eye when I’m in a station or airport to help pass the time while waiting for inevitably delayed trains or flights as I haven’t mastered the art of spending 18-plus hours a day on my phone.

Let’s list what are probably some of the major issues of our time:

Is there really a ‘climate crisis’ – as several Western countries are committing economic suicide and impoverishing their people by trying to transition from using cheap, reliable fossil fuels to replacing these with expensive, unreliable, intermittent supposed ‘renewables’ it is important to establish whether there really is a ‘climate crisis’ or whether anthropogenic global warming is the greatest scientific mistake/scam ever made by mankind.
Origin of COVID-19 – it’s rather important to know whether this virus evolved naturally in some animal or was brewed up in, and then leaked from, a badly-run Chinese lab conducting ‘gain of function’ research on bat viruses, research which was funded by American taxpayers with money funnelled through an intermediate company in order to circumvent a U.S. ban on ‘gain of function’ work.
Safety and effectiveness or otherwise of mRNA vaccines – given that hundreds of millions of people were encouraged/coerced into getting mRNA vaccinations against COVID-19 and given that vast sums are now being invested in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia amongst other countries to develop future mRNA vaccines against all sorts of conditions, it’s important to know whether this vaccine technology is actually safe or whether it causes more damage than it prevents
Ukraine war – how much was NATO (and especially the Biden/Blinken administration) responsible for provoking the Russian invasion by throwing Putin’s warning that NATO should not move one inch further towards Russia’s borders back in Putin’s face?

Why do I mention these? It’s because I bought a copy of Private Eye magazine a few weeks ago. Of course, I don’t expect Private Eye to cover all the above issues in each edition. In the copy I bought, of the above issues it only deals with climate change. Climate change makes a few appearances in this edition of Private Eye. There’s some criticism of some guy for being an investor in fossil fuels while also funding work suggesting (accurately in my opinion) that the U.K. Government’s plans for Net Zero are unrealistic. And there’s a more prominent piece criticising the latest COP meeting for not achieving anything and criticism of some world leaders for not even turning up. And I think I remember seeing something else. But it was so brilliant and insightful and incisive that I can’t quite remember what it was.