Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast

Hello and welcome to another episode of Page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray and I'm here in the private eye offices joined as ever

by Adam McQueen, Helen Lewis and Ian Hizlop.

We're here to discuss the stories that have transpired since the last issue of the magazine was

published and who knows maybe to discuss some of the stories that might come out in the next issue

of private eye. Obviously, the main story this week internationally is the ongoing incredibly

bleak situation in the Middle East. That was covered in quite a lot of detail in the last

issue of private eye and if you're interested in what readers thought of it, there is going to be

a full rundown on the letters page, lots and lots of letters both for and against so you'll be

able to read all of those in great detail in the next issue of the magazine. But so that we're

not giving you the same thing twice over, we thought that this time we would start with a story

from a little bit closer to home, a story that happened just after we had gone to press last time

and frankly a story that isn't quite as depressing. We are talking about a British political story

in particular that of the two bi-elections that happened last week in Tamworth and Midbedfordshire

in which the people of those places decided that they wanted to make a long-term decision for

a brighter future. I wish didn't involve really soon at all. Were you expecting them to be both

Tory losses Andy? Because I honestly thought they might just hang on to one of them.

I'm so bad at predicting things that I really didn't, I couldn't have put it one way or the other

and I'm also very easily gulled by expectation management from either party saying,

oh well we you know government's always lose bi-elections and it's perfectly natural so

well maybe they will. Clearly there's a lot of that, wasn't there? There's a lot of that.

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