Do you read Private Eye?

[belboid]

i wouldn't worry, you can skip it pretty much - unless you particularly enjoy laughing at balders

 

[tbaldwin]

belboid the man who has mystic powers to tell what other people have read.....Look at the EVIDENCE of this thread.....

 

[butchersapron]

I believe belboid then, not baldwin.

 

[scifisam]

Simon Regan died on 8th August 2000 after a short illness.
*The Scallywag Magazine Archive is temporarily unavailable.
The site will be restored as soon as possible. (01/12/02)

He does make some good points about opinions being sacred and facts not necessarily being factual, and I know nothing about Scallywag so won't pass comment on it, but it's odd to be so proud of libelling people, and this sentence is hilarious:

We gave chapter and verse, for example, on Michael Portillo's homosexual dalliances. As a student I spent a whole year checking it out, including extensive trips to Cambridge and Morocco.

Cutting-edge journalism, going on holiday for a year to find out about shagging boys.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I love the way you constantly try and do that try and reduce everything down...
The thing is this is a thread about Private eye and whether its anti establishment....Now there are some like you who seem to believe it is and some like me who don't.
but now by your ridiculous comment claiming that you know i never read Scallywag!!!!! ( You Mystic you) It seems to be all about Scallywag.

The thing is Scallywag attacked not only the establishment over Diana,Portillo,Lilley,Paedophiles but also Private eye which it saw (probably rightly) as timidly pro establishment.

Nothing to do with Scallywag seeing the "Eye" as a rival, then, like it viewed al-Fayed's resurrection of Punch?

I am not at all suprised that you think Private eye is good. Your politics is anti establishment in the same way as Private eyes eg you like to moan about everything but there would only be one thing worse than the status quo for somebody like you and that would be political change.

In debate after debate whether its top pay in the public and voluntary sector or migration you always come out with spurious leftie defences on the status quo.

It doesn't matter whether Private Eye is pro or anti-establishment. What matters is whether it does the job it sets out to do, which is to inform people and to stimulate debate, which is exactly what Scallywag also aimed to do. Judging a publication by it's level of scurrilousness or the amount of times it has been sued is ridiculous.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Yeah cos obviously that would be so so easy to come up with if she was.

Has anyone ever explained "circular logic" to you, balders?

 

[trevhagl]

tell us more, do. What was the real expose re Portillo then? Where's the meat?

I am sill intrigued as to why you refuse to 'name the name', tho i can tell who you are referring to now at least. Most odd behaviour.

btw, your insults are getting really crap now, and don't even make much sense. Why not drop them and act the grown up for a while? Or at least come up with something new and/or meaningful.

"Where's the meat?" ha ha ha do you really need us to answer that!

 

[belboid]

Nope, just glad somebody got it

(uhhh, the pun, not the meat, that is)

 

[stethoscope]

Haven't checked Private Eye for a long while... used to love It's Grim Up North London.

 

[trevhagl]

Haven't checked Private Eye for a long while... used to love It's Grim Up North London.

that reminds me of my stalkers on here!

 

[trevhagl]

i got the new one cos the cover is fantastic, (Question Time) and i can't see why anyone could find fault with it, it's funny and not worried about who it upsets (contrary to what people claim on here)

 

[stavros]

Their best cover for a while:

 

[Santino]

I don't think mental illness is quite the all-purpose punchline that it once was.