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{{Other uses|Private eye (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = Private Eye
| image = [[File:Private Eye Cover.jpg|centre|230px|alt=Magazine cover dominated by large colour photograph overlaid with cartoon-style speech bubbles, captioned with tabloid-style headline, below a yellow and green masthead. There is no prose on the cover.]]
| caption = Cover of ''Private Eye'' from July 2011
| type = Fortnightly [[satire|satirical]] <br /> news [[magazine]]
(contracted; show full)ies have been unsympathetic. During the 1980s, Ingrams and [[John Wells (satirist)|John Wells]] wrote fictional letters from [[Denis Thatcher]] to [[Bill Deedes]] in the ''[[Dear Bill]]'' column, mocking Margaret Thatcher's husband as an amiable, golf-playing drunk. The column was collected in a series of books and became a play in which Wells played the fictional Denis, a character who is now inextricably "blurred [with] the real historical figure", according to Ingrams.
[<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/jun/12/politicalcolumnists.comment]</ref>

===Miscellanea===
* ''Classified'' – adverts from readers. In the past, these commonly featured personal ads which used code words to describe particular sexual acts. Currently, the adverts usually include products for sale, conspiracy theorists promoting their ideas, and the "Eye Need" adverts in which people request money for personal causes.
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