Private Eye Prime Minister of the day. The style is chosen to mock the perceived foibles and folly of each Prime Minister: Not all of "Private Eye"'s parodies have been unsympathetic. During the 1980s, Ingrams and John Wells wrote fictional letters from Denis Thatcher to Bill Deedes in the "Dear Bill" column, mocking Thatcher 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 now inextricably "blurred [with] the real historical figure", according to Ingrams. "Private Eye" also contains a variety of regular mini-sections, consisting
George Sweet (football manager) George Sweet (football manager) George Millar Sweet (1897–1969) was Scottish football manager who managed Scottish League club Cowdenbeath and junior club Solway Star. He also served Cowdenbeath as treasurer, secretary and was a member of the club's board. Sweet managed Scottish League Second Division club Cowdenbeath between 9 August 1948 and 21 April 1951. His highest placing was fifth in the 1949–50 season and he left the role with a record of 45 wins, 18 draws and 53 defeats in all competitions. In September 1916, in the middle of the First World War, Sweet was working as a bank clerk