Did you ever read Scallywag Kyser? Published stories the establishments pet Private eye wouldnt have touched with a barge pole.
Do you read Private Eye?
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Did you ever read Scallywag Kyser? Published stories the establishments pet Private eye wouldnt have touched with a barge pole.
Scallwag was not sued directly but its distributors were if i remember correctly. It was fucking miles better than the private eye linking the treasurer of the Tory party with a paedophile ring and first to run with the Portillo/Lilley/College tutor axis of evil story.....
how do you mean 'establishment wank' because apart from the death of Diana i can't think of one example where they were pro establishment?
So what's particularly "establishment" about Private Eye, tbaldwin? What stories do you think it should have covered that it hasn't?
Edit: Should have refreshed the page before posting. Just because Private Eye is a little cautious about what it publishes, doesn't make it shit, just limited in some ways.
Edit: Should have refreshed the page before posting. Just because Private Eye is a little cautious about what it publishes, doesn't make it shit, just limited in some ways.
I like watching him flounder about though, it's entertaining.
Public school wank....
Yeah sure they do some good stuff about rotten boroughs,pfi etc but Private eye has always been establisment wank....might appeal to some public school wadicals who think its terribly challenging......But what exactly has it challenged.......
Scallywag wasnt afraid to have a go at Portillo and Lilley or to link the Judiciaries light sentences for paedophiles with stories of boys from children homes being procured for judges,senior policeman and the treasurer of the Tory party...
I guess some people will think private eye is radical and challenging in the way some people think the economist is the last word in economics....
But to me its mostly establishment wank.........dripping a few minor scandals ......which is what they feel safe with......
So because Private Eye doesn't cover every single scandal ever, it's wank? It's not like everybody doesn't already know that it's all very public school, you're not actually telling people anything they don't know themselves.
danny la rouge
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No, although I have picked up an old one in a GP waiting room.
No. I dont expect it to cover every single scandal. But i think the way papers magazines choose to focus on some issues and ignore others is political.
And the politics of private eye is public school wadicals and unlike belboid i am not a fan of that kind of politics....
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
Posh GP waiting room. The most upmarket mag I've ever seen in a GP waiting room is fecking 'Car' magazine...
It's like anything else though, everybody has an agenda, you just have to trust in your own critical faculties enough to know when you're being told something interesting and when you're being led up the garden path.
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
balders, have you any other examples of Scallywag stories that aren't this paedo one you keep mentioning?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
says the lib-dem voter extolling the virtues of a magazine run by a Diana was murdered conspiracy theorist, and vigorous opponents of the higher echelons of the butterfly collecting world.
(I doubt balders ever actually read Scallywag, I reckon he just thinks it makes him sound a bity more rad)
That was a story that Private eye would never have printed. I cant remember all the scallywag exposes now....But as i said first to print the story about Portillo and Lilley...The founder/editor died some years ago which was a real shame.
danny la rouge
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We have The Lady, The Shooting Times, and Trout and Salmon Monthly.
And the receptionist asks "What is your title, so that I can announce you?"
yes.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
i usually read private eye, there isn't much around like it and it makes me smile often.
danny la rouge
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No, the Telegraph Saturday crossword is the best.
Bullshit! Dude, you're making me angry.
It goes:
1. Private Eye
2. Saturday Times jumbo crossword
3. Saturday Times normal crossword
4. Run-of-the-mill Times
5. Saturday Telegraph
6. Observer Everyman
7. Normal Telegraph
8. Sunday Times
There is no debating this.
danny la rouge
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Why is that even in your list?
fogbat
The Talibum
I'm impressed.
I always feel clever when I can complete TheLondonPaper's cryptic crossword
Partly sentimental reasons, admittedly. I taught myself by holding my nose and buying the Express for the Crusader, then as soon as I was able to have half a chance, I progressed to the Telegraph (before later stepping up to the Times). In those early dark days, however, the Everyman was the one "proper" crossword I could do.
I still remember the happy day when I idly looked at the previously completely impossible Private Eye crossword and suddenly realised I could do the clues. It's the only crossword that raises a chuckle, except for the better Times clues.I'm impressed.
I always feel clever when I can complete TheLondonPaper's cryptic crossword
danny la rouge
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Who is the Prime Minister?
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