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  1. Re:Why does everyone think by alext · · Score: 1 · on Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen
    Try subscriptions@private-eye.co.uk, but be warned that the content is not only very UK-centric, but includes its own bizarre slang, partly to get around local libel laws, e.g. Ugandan Discussions = sex.

    There used to be a clone in the US called SPY, right down to the 'separated at birth' pictures of unlikely twins, but I think it disappeared.

    Another dodgy quote:

    There was thought to be little hope today of any informed coverage emerging from the thousands of tons of newsprint which left readers buried in voyeuristic cliche and bellicose sentimentality last week.

    Still, it's an institution, and one which upholds fine British traditions of cont. p94

  2. European Convention on Human Rights by mattbee · · Score: 2 · on European Cybercrime Treaty 1.1

    Since the European Convention on Human Rights legislation came in to force the other week (in Britain at least), our legislators seem to have been running scared of falling foul of it, and people are saying a lot of existing British laws will be annulled or substantially altered by interpretation in the light of the Euro-dictat. As far as I can tell, the wording is so vague that (lawyers reckon) it's easily interpretable for the benefit of David in any David v. Goliath case. The satirical magazine Private Eye said it best in a cartoon last week (damn can't find it on-line), picturing a game of Monopoly, with a man reading from a Chance card: `Go to jail. Go indirectly to jail via the European Court of Human Rights. Get out of jail free. Collect £2,000,000.' It's pretty rare that you get this sort of sweeping legislation coming into force, and here's a nice example of it protecting on-line rights already (hurrah!).