How to offend everyone, with Ian Hislop 

Owned by Rupert Murdoch. Pro Brexit. Pro Boris. Credibility rating? Higher or lower than Fox News?

The times is a tory mouthpiece

no thanks. blowing a Tory not the best way to view the world..

@@stuartmacpherson7948 The Times is a Rupert Murdoch mouthpiece, which is even worse 🙂

Yeah give The Murduch "News" Empire more money, stick even more nails into the coffin of British democracy, great idea.

Spot on-the real reason why nothing ever changes is that a bigoted intolerant left will only spot the crime if a Tory does it and go into denial and spout conspiracy theories when "their lot" do EXACTLY the same, and a bigoted intolerant right will likewise only spot it if Labour do it and utter EXACTLY the same conspiracy theories and denials as the left. Dump being blinded by silly coloured rosettes and damn the lot-THEN something will change.

No. They’re a leftist outfit for those arrogant types who believe they’re above politics.

Certainly put the "paper of Murdochs record" The Times to shame

No they're part of the establishment now.

knobface

Come on, you don’t have any mates.

​@@peninsulageneralgoodsstore I don't think he is a member of the Conservatives or Reform, so he probably does have friends.

@@jeffsuter344 awww, comrade to the rescue !

😂😂😂

knobface

Excellent conversation! Most are unaware of how scripted, and therefore predictable, the right wing echo chamber is around the globe. Populism thrives on people not taking an interest in other countries .. a.k.a. "the poorly educated." Jon and Ian should have a monthly televised chat.

When I lived in Florida I still kept my subscription to Private Eye active and albeit they would arrive an issue late I would always take it into my work (Tallahassee Memorial Hospital) and after I read it I would lend it to a co-worker who was a die-hard Republican. He would laugh at the jokes and say hmm interesting about articles from "In the Back" but whenever a story about Republicans or a joke about Trump would appear then his mood swiftly changed and the magazine would be swiftly (and politely but the feeling of anger was still there) put it down and went back to his youtube videos of guns and what Trump was saying that day.

@@Sou1defiler sounds about right

that was a cracking interview!

As an American...As an Eskimo...As a spotty-backed hippopotamus...

Let's stop digital money. Let's keep cash. Big State doesn't need to know what you spend your cash on. Keep your freedom. Write to your MP. Say no to digital money.

What defence? The UK’s politics is a disaster. I guess if you can afford PE, you’re above the cost of living impacts. Certainly makes it easier to laugh.

Just be grateful that you live in the UK. I have Portuguese friends and from what they tell me about politics over there, we live in corruption-free utopia in comparison. Worst part is, they don't have an equivalent to Private Eye, let alone Ian Hislop, to help expose it.

@@bipolarminddroppings How does he know it goes on then? What are the conventional newspapers and radio stations like?

@@simonpitt8145 Because the corrupt are sufficiently brazen to display their corruption in public. A friend of mine who did some high-powered consulting in Lisbon with Portuguese banks and politicians tells some hair-raising tales of the corruption he saw.

Yep. I used to watch a podcast every day but I got fed up with learning about virtue signalling loonies in the public sector wasting our tax money, the BBC and their bigoted hiring policies, nonces in schools, gender and race grifters, and the media outright lying about everything, so I had to stop watching. It's too depressing.

I agree. The sheer blatant corruption exposed in political and social coverage is enough to make anybody weep. A case in point is the Post Office subpostmaster fiasco where two big companies KNOWINGLY completely ruined the lives of hundreds of people and got many people sent to jail because they were worried about their bottom line and reputations. Private eye covered the topic for years and it took over twenty years for any sort of justice to be achieved, and it's still nowhere near finished. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

If we can't laugh at other people, what hope is there? 🙂

I would describe myself as left, still have my subscription! That said I can understand why people 'on the left' would take exception to Matt Chorley or Rupert Murdoch's times newspaper being critical of Jeremy Corbyn could be legitimate given the seeming universally similar coverage (in terms of talking points). Complaining about the same in private eye is likely overreacting!

Whatever happened to the middle?

Honestly, Its mostly not about being thin-skinned per se but instead about whether one is nuanced enough to punch up rather than down or mechanically set to punching everyone including starving kids in Africa.

I think he did say the right are thin skinned before mentioning the left.

I've read that very letter on Sanders, Hislop cannot in good faith equate the 'hard left' with the reactionary right. He undercuts a lot of what Private Eye stands for and writes when his magazine pours scorn on Sanders and co. I can certainly take a joke but the dismissal of Corbyn, Sanders etc is 'balance' designed to help sales and undermines their message.

Ian represents the power, no?

@@barkebaat No - he is in another part of the playground.

@@barkebaat No. definitely not.

Ian comes from the poshest part of British society

@@oldschoolcockneylover8138 It's what you say and how you say it that matters - not who your parents were.

I don't agree with everything Ian Hislop says. That doesn't affect my profound admiration for him. It's a condition known as being a rational adult.

I mean....I get why it didn't land well - just the implication that we eat fruit...

@lindoriel7286 😂😂😂

​@lindoriel7286 how dare you! I always get pineapple on my deep fried pizza!

Independence for England,keep your corrupt SNP not that we are much better 🤣

Ferrari? Sounds like a foreign name.

@@heycidskyja4668 I think I preferred you when you were just plain old sidssnotear. 🤣

Thank you for that, it's made my day 👍

His continual arrogance and condecention towards anyone who wished their country to have their sovereignty returned was nauseating. He's an opinionated little traitor who'd sell his county to the EUSSR, in a heartbeat. He's become irrelevant.

And what about the average non brits ? Or are they far more intelligent than the average Brit?

Your mom "gracioussy" signed my anally cross. It hangs my hallway too.

I'm with you and the inimitable Stephen Fry on this!!!!

Quote by Thomas Paine: “He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

With intersectionality and brexit it’s hard for the left not to be offended.

@@peninsulageneralgoodsstore I thought many on the left wanted Brexit like 'No2EU'...

@@peninsulageneralgoodsstore I think you mean the right?

Hampstead socialist.

Ian is a bitter loser, he wanted to stay in Europe and has a go at anyone that has a differing opinion, HIGNFY used to be very funny and Paul can still be very witty but Ian has gone to sarcasm and he comes across as a child at times

Because he is a 🤡

@@snowyowel7961 Bet you a tenner he can spell Owl.

@@oteimoto85 I should hope so it's owl However you are referring to OWEL which is the name of a group in new Jersey who my neice knows so I gave it a twist. Check it out.

@@oteimoto85 Of course I know how to spell owl however Owel is a group in new Jersey who my neice and I know so I put Owel has a twist OWEL.

​@@snowyowel7961😂😂😂😂😂😂 SUUUUUURRREEEEE!!!

You forgot, C4 and BBC, who didn't show enough respect to the Tories, and were threatened with privatisation.

HIGNFY will probably (like Lineker) be saved by its' viewing figures.

I'm surprised anyone who watches GB News can read.

@@Slaeowulf Maybe they just look at the pictures?

Why not - what news would you suggest - the BBC!?!

Message to Ian - I'm a regular reader of Private Eye - every fortnight I shove a copy between the covers of the Saturday Daily Mail?!?

@@paulbird1808 Clearly you like fairy stories so maybe the Disney Channel would be appropriate?

As you get older, you may even find yourself able to laugh at your foibles.

possibly the only

Pull my finger!

I had a lady call at my door promoting the Tory Party - in fact actually lecturing me in the most patronising way. I need to say this is a Tory area where their support is almost entirely down to forelock pulling. Most of my neighbours 'know their place.' I told her I'd cut off my hand before I ever voted Tory. (I didn't bother to mention that - these days - that also includes the Labour Party.) So she could take both her superiority and her disgusting policies to the other side of my garden gate! She protested she'd never been so insulted. I replied that - with her face - she surely MUST have been...

@@jackywhite880 No need to be nasty or personal. You could have said that - with her policies - she must have been.

@@jackywhite880 then know your place and vote tory

Your mom offends me. Every day.

Oh don't be so silly. Most people on that side of the fence are so used to it as mainstream media is full of it day in day out that it's water off a Duck's back. They don't have the added 'protected characteristics' to hide behind neither.

My way _is_ the only way, so you'd better get used to it! Alas, though: my wife's ways are more only, so I never get to do my way. 😢

"I'm what you would call a traditional liberal, therefore I generally vote labour" Not, you know, liberal? The liberal party? The liberals? Most socialist leaning folk vote labour.

Your mom is their problem.

@@HumanityisEmbarrassing You might want to expand on that.

I mean, I could, but it would seem rude to expand on your mom without asking....

Snap!

What........another channel ? 😂😂😂

I see your mom, I don't click....😮

That was my thought too.

That's because they are the joke.

Well why are remoaners called remoaners? Brexit has delivered inflation busting wage increases for me and got me out of the temporary accommodation B and B scene (4 years hard time!) and into the private rental scene! I also drive now too despite being told how thick I was to vote leave and how much poorer I would be! All lies but you know….. the Bus etc etc😂

My brother bought me a year's subscription for my birthday back in the 1980s, and I have renewed it every year since, even when I was so hard up it was sometimes a stretch. It's invaluable.

but you do....your better than us...we dont get it....satire.....get it

These days.

@@james6901 - Is using “your” instead of you’re, satire………….if so, I’m sorry but I don’t “get it” either.

@@alangray263 No you do get it, you just want to feel superior.

I find it ironic that people no longer understand satire.

Channelling your inner Bob Monkhouse, me thinks.😊

@@geoffreypettitt9378 Yep. A classic line from Bob!

@@geoffreypettitt9378 yep

Your mom is laughing now, however

ha ha you can write that anyway! I just buy from the shop - its good to support that too

Said your mom

Good for you! Welcome to the club.

What makes Murdoch so angry is that he knows he can't touch 'Private Eye' . Two other people who famously hated the Eye were Robert Maxwell and Tiny Rowland.

Correct, and backed up by research data. There is more mental illness prevalent at the extreme positions, and also more on the left than on the right.

In Private Eye, they do exactly that. Always have.

Your mom has me in stitches

In a bad way

More of a bell end ! 😂😂😂

So was Michael Foot - literally! 🙂

1'm getting pedantic now, my predictive text has gone up the spout. What is the purpose? I spend 15 minutes trying to amend what I've written. 🤠

@jabberwockytdi8901 it's one of the three leadership types - the charismatic (personality cult), the traditional (inherited power) and rational-legal (bureaucratic parliamentarianism). They come and go. The policies - and more to the point, morality - are another dimension. Charismatic leadership is usually followed until it has a failure, when the person gets dumped by disappointed followers: these days are marked by people not dumping the charismatic leader and refusing to admit failure. We might be done for...

When I worked in theatre there was a joke about playing to a really bad house which was "There were only two old age pensioners and a man in a wheelchair in the audience. And the man in the wheelchair walked out" It's a bit like that for GB News.

. . . I'm a Frostie ! 😇

@@davidripley2916 I'm sure the term "Sugar Puff" is no longer acceptable. 😕

I wish I'd said that. ( I will...)

@@peterrenn6341 Never!! Remember the Sugar Plum Fairy?

@@davidripley2916 Good one!!!! 🤣