Ian Hislop and Private Eye

[cesare]

Defender and bastion of the working class, or not?

 

[bi0boy]

Defender and bastion of the working class, or not?

Working class? Where did you get that idea

 

[DotCommunist]

accepted, tolerated needle in the side of the establishment he and his rag are part of. See also, previous editor Peter Cook.

They have a massive libel defence fund and do regularly make many funny and angering attacks on politicians and institutions. It is well written satire carrying a lamp in daylight.

 

[Zabo]

More like sneering, short arsed Tory lick spittle.

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=324781&highlight=hislop

 

[ernestolynch]

Boring comic for toffs who think they are anti-establishment.

 

[Wookey]

I would love a swift slap to those chubby little cheeks, and I'm not a violent man.

 

[AKA pseudonym]

since the demise of Paul Foot has contained less pro-working class content..

 

[scifisam]

Private Eye may be many things, but I don't think it's ever been working-class. It's not anti-working-class either, as far as I can see.

accepted, tolerated needle in the side of the establishment he and his rag are part of. See also, previous editor Peter Cook.

They have a massive libel defence fund and do regularly make many funny and angering attacks on politicians and institutions. It is well written satire carrying a lamp in daylight.

I like that phrasing even though I'm not entirely sure what you mean by it.

 

[stethoscope]

Ian Hislop:

Middle class.
Went to Oxford.
Right-leaning Lib Dem.


Private Eye:

A thorn in the establishment maybe but hardly on working class grounds.

 

[Citizen66]

He reminds me of a hamster.

 

[ernestolynch]

Private Eye may be many things, but I don't think it's ever been working-class. It's not anti-working-class either, as far as I can see.



I like that phrasing even though I'm not entirely sure what you mean by it.

Statin' the bleedin' obvious.

 

[Stigmata]

Defender and bastion of the working class, or not?

lol Urban

 

[weltweit]

I usually buy Private Eye when I am in an airport (not very often these days) and I think you have to read it often to get to know who all the pseudonyms are.

Some of it goes over my head because I don't know who they are talking about.

 

[ViolentPanda]

He reminds me of a hamster.

How did you find out I'd wrapped him in Gaffa tape and bummed him?

 

[Citizen66]

How did you find out I'd wrapped him in Gaffa tape and bummed him?

Oh, is it a sexual term?

Only Tories would know that, eh?

 

[spliff]

accepted, tolerated needle in the side of the establishment he and his rag are part of. See also, previous editor Peter Cook.

They have a massive libel defence fund and do regularly make many funny and angering attacks on politicians and institutions. It is well written satire carrying a lamp in daylight.

Peter Cook and Nicholas Luard financed Private Eye.
The previous editor was Richard Ingrams.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Thorn in anyone and everyone's side, where they detect any hint of any shenanigans or hypocrisy.

 

[DotCommunist]

Private Eye may be many things, but I don't think it's ever been working-class. It's not anti-working-class either, as far as I can see.



I like that phrasing even though I'm not entirely sure what you mean by it.

diogenes. A greek cynic philospher who was said to carry a lamp in daylight because he was looking for an honest man.

What I mean by it is that gleeful lampooning of the status quo is not much cop when you are part of that establishment youself. Like a sixth form stage play ripping it out of the sirs iywsim.

 

[DotCommunist]

Statin' the bleedin' obvious.

a more succinct summing up.

 

[butchersapron]

Thorn in anyone and everyone's side, where they detect any hint of any shenanigans or hypocrisy.

Except their own.

 

[claphamboy]

Boring comic for toffs who think they are anti-establishment.

(((trev)))

 

[Steel Icarus]

It's nice he has a new career now that Richard Coles is a vicar.

 

[stavros]

I usually buy Private Eye when I am in an airport (not very often these days) and I think you have to read it often to get to know who all the pseudonyms are.

OTM. I've started reading it regularly now and am still picking up Eye-speak with each issue.

 

[spliff]

Like a sixth form stage play ripping it out of the sirs iywsim.

That's just about what it is.

I haven't read it for years but when I did I usually focused on Paul Foot and the 'In The City' pages.
You'd read some stuff there that would surface months later in the mainstream press with shock, horror, snouts in troughs headlines.

As for their relationship to the working class. Odd question.

What are Mojo's links to the Countryside Alliance?

 

[Greenfish]

Defender and bastion of the working class, or not?

seen him in an interview say he is a conservative with a small c.

clever cunt though.

 

[thriller]

was it the Private Eye which ran a cover a few years ago with the Israel flag? Implying the power of the Jewish Lobby? I'm sure it was the Private Eye?

 

[Shevek]

accepted, tolerated needle in the side of the establishment he and his rag are part of. See also, previous editor Peter Cook.

They have a massive libel defence fund and do regularly make many funny and angering attacks on politicians and institutions. It is well written satire carrying a lamp in daylight.

dot com where do you get all this stuff from? You should make money from writing.

 

[Zabo]

.. satire carrying a lamp in daylight.

Cue Diogenes

 

[DotCommunist]

if you hear of an organ willing to accept angry pissheads who bang out 70% mickey taking and 30% analysis then let me know.

 

[claphamboy]

if you hear of an organ willing to accept angry pissheads who bang out 70% mickey taking and 30% analysis then let me know.

The Eye?