Watch the full interview with Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye, at Impact 2018 - the MRS Annual Conference, 13 March 2018. For more videos including Will Self, Sebastian Faulks and Jim Al Khalili visit www.mrs.org.uk/videolibrary
Ian Hislop inspires me to search the talents of the United States, where I am a citizen, for a U.S national treasure to fill our need for a truth seeker of such high feats. Frankly, I'm having no success to date. This leaves me to embrace Ian Hislop as a treasure for humanity. Too much? It's now 12 September 2023, and Ian Hislop continues to speak, write, expose truth. Many thanks to the man.
@@MrMjwoodford These are my observations and opinions, of course. Jon Stewart's primary goal seems, to me, to be humor. True, he usually takes his comedy from news sources and often adds additional information which clarifies, if not corrects, those news sources. What I don't see him doing is researching to the depth Ian Hislop does. As much as humor spices Mr. Hislop's reporting, again to me, news items spice Mr. Stewart's humor. It's the emphasis that raises Ian Hislop in my mind. I've heard the two in conversation online and found Jon Stewart to be unconvincing as a seeker and speaker of truth. As a comedian, he gets my vote.
@@susanelainesanner Hislop's had access to inside info on the scandals of the day for over 35 years, and he's been in regular debate with politicians and other public figures. I admire his ability to see through their BS.
I bought Private Eye subscription today! I am a Texan, and within my thoroughly wonderful but politically nightmarish state and country, I often struggle to find good political figures. Ian is such a breath of fresh air and an absolute fighter for free speech and free press. The UK is lucky to have him.
We will always need people like Ian. My father bought Private Eye, I bought him a year supply for his Birthday and he continued...even though he was rather "right" in his politics. We argued plenty and I thank The Eye for all x
Fair play to Hislop. He simply tells it like it is. His frank approach and delivery tends to shock those whom are part of the "establishment". There are those whom have used the "system" to try to bring him down, but he ploughs on regardless. And good on him.... I still enjoy HIGNFY
What made my laugh was recently on HIGNY he talked about the previous editor being in court and asked by a barrister if there was ever anything in PI that was false and the answer was "yes, the apologies". 😊
National treasure is definitely the right term for Ian Hislop. We all just need a guy like him in society, preferably in government! He just doesn't shirk a question. He'll answer it and be honest with it. Such an important man.
I can remember all the bile thrown his way by some of the Eye 'old guard' when Richard Ingrams passed them over in favour of Ian Hislop as the new Eye editor. Looking back the boy done good. I never thought i'd find myself saying that Private Eye is one of the last bastions of brutal honesty in its satirical journalism but its rather looking that way. Long may it not only survive, but continue to prosper. We need it more than ever.
IDIOT---You are reffering to the PAST---long Long ago. When The little fat one was not afraid of upsetting anyone, and was keen to show it, despite the multitude of appearances in Court.
The GREAT Ian Hislop. Absolutely. I hope I pre-decease Ian, because my world will be diminished with his loss. Keep on breathing and doing what you do, thank you.
This discussion with Ian Hislop is more interesting than most, which tend to be about topical subjects and being funny about them. The questions by market researchers focus on how the Eye assesses its market, what research it does, and subjects like truth and how stories are presented. As a result Hislop discusses subjects that he usually doesn't need to. Worth watching.
Fair play to Hislop. He simply tells it like it is. His frank approach and delivery tends to shock those whom are part of the "establishment". There are those whom have used the "system" to try to bring him down, but he ploughs on regardless. And good on him....
@@medievalladybird394bit less silly and more esoteric than Punch but on similar lines. I’d almost say a satirical magazine is an essential component of a democracy
*_Private Eye is Yet Another Vehicle of Censorship._* Of course, Private Eye is a private organisation, like The Sun; as such it can of course, choose what it wants to investigate. For example, it can choose not to investigate its chums. Hislop and his organisation, Private Eye, were approached to investigate and address the abuse of powers of office as vehicles of malice outlined in the videos below. In the former, outlined in the documents obtained via Subject Access Requests in the video, and in the pinned comment; and in the latter in the pinned comment. Some years ago, Hislop and Private Eye were presented with conclusive and uncontroversial written evidence of a General Director of the BBC and Controller of Radio 3 lying to a Member of Parliament. They ignored it. The first video opens with documents that can only be described as illustrative of the legacy of Roger Wright's malice. To get the measure of the man, put "Roger Wright Expenses" into search engine. There is more, such as the common knowledge of his abuse of position to bed a cocaine addict. He wasn't alone. The cabal of Stephen Plaistow, Colin Matthews, Oliver Knussen, and Sally Groves all more than pulled their weight to destroy this particular composer. Members of this cabal and their hangers on were overheard at social occasions laughing about driving the composer in question to suicide, and gloating about sabotaging the one life-changing opportunity for this composer and conductor to be springboarded into an international career, far put of their reach. This caused the composer to develop diagnosed PTSD, that had killed his composition gift more than 30 years prior to the diagnosis. But social media has provided exposure of credible videos such as the two below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C4A0nFO0cZw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x-SygGiF-kU.html (It is interesting to note that this comment will only post as a response.)
If Private Eye didn't exist we'd need to invent it. It has become an essential part of our democracy and tells of things the establishment and powerful would ensure otherwise that we never learned. It may be entertaining, but often it's the only publication willing to point out some real wrongs.
Does it bollocks its what the Liberal Elite want in the press at that given time, have you noticed the same left wing faces have been on our screens for 20 + years, Hislop one of them, the guys are loaded with cash for doing very little, collectively destroying the UK with bullshit Liberalism.
I enjoyed that. I probably know more about British politics than Australian (my country) courtesy of HIGNFY! I love Ian, I loved the Private Eye mags my auntie brought home in the 70s, even had one confiscated at school and the bloody teacher threw it away! Scandalous...
I'm not surprised to learn Ian Hislop likes George Orwell: "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
Who anyway with a slightly curious mind and slight intellectual intelligence doesn't like Orwell? Lol stupid waste of time talking to any lefty that doesn't see the relevance...
Hislop only pays lip service to Orwell to keep his veneer of respectability and pay checks. He does not throw a light on the Orwellian dystopia being formed gradually by our masters as does david icke.
I understand that Private Eye is a private organisation, and that, just like its sister publications the Sun and Telegraph, it is quite entitled to its discrimination in its editorial policies and choices, and that it is quite entitled to exhibit bias, in that in can choose not to investigate its chums. But clearly hislop and Private Eye do not hold the higher ground. Ian Hislop and his organisation, Private Eye, were approached to investigate and address the abuse of powers of office as vehicles of malice outlined in the following videos. In the former, in the documents obtained via Subject Access Requests in the video, and in the pinned comment; and in the latter in the pinned comment. Some years ago, Hislop and Private Eye were presented with conclusive and uncontroversial written evidence of a General Director of the BBC and Controller of Radio 3 lying to a Member of Parliament. They ignored it. The first video opens with documents that can only be described as illustrative of the legacy of Roger Wright's malice. To get the measure of the man, put "Roger Wright Expenses" into search engine. There is more, such as the common knowledge of his abuse of position to bed a cocaine addict. He wasn't alone. The cabal of Stephen Plaistow, Colin Matthews, Oliver Knussen, and Sally Groves all more than pulled their weight to destroy this particular composer. Members of this cabal and their hangers on were overheard at social occasions laughing about driving the composer in question to suicide, and gloating about sabotaging the one life-changing opportunity for this composer and conductor to be springboarded into an international career, far put of their reach. This caused the composer to develop diagnosed PTSD, that had killed his composition gift more than 30 years prior to the diagnosis. But social media has provided exposure of credible videos such as the two below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C4A0nFO0cZw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x-SygGiF-kU.html
I just bought a subscription. Hislop makes a good point: if you do a good job, you deserve to be paid for it. Plus, £36 for 26 issues is good value. I haven't read Private Eye before, so whether I renew the subscription is up to them, but it's important to be informed about our politicians in this "post-rational" world.
2.1.23 0623am he needs to be clear about what he's doing. bringing spite into it all will muddy his clarity, for sure... how hateful will his satire get? "find stuff that hurts"... ?????? that said he does have to deal with the wrath of the tabloids.
You know you have a perfect dictatorship when the idiots in it think its a democracy because they havent managed to shut down one - purely satirical - publication.
Private eye is a national treasure which started out in the 1960s when I first went to satyr clubs in Soho and watched and listen to some of the greatest satirist of the day from both Britain and America. Sadly America doesn’t have this kind of satire and I’ve missed it. Long live private eye
I hate articles criticising 'HIGNFY' and Hislop when the Eye is the most important journalists in Britain. A great man doing a job too valuable to estimate. He should be President.
I think my favourite quote from IH (not sure he whether he actually came up with it) was when he explained that 'countryside' was defined as the killing Piers Morgan
It's strange you mention that as I only saw the video of it last week. He was quoting Stephen Fry. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jJtrRwOi2xo.html&ab_channel=BBC
The well honed insult is endemic to British humor; and surprisingly perhaps, among those Southerners in the US more or less directly descended, as both of mine were. from the UK. I grew up learning to laugh at myself at the dinner table when I became the brunt, which was often, as I was the youngest. I had to unlearn this tendency when I began to socialize as a teen and later in more intimate relationships. Nobody else really understands the cultural habit, more's the pity I feel, but I learned to at least soft pedal it, in deference to its being inappropriate here in the US. So manicuring the skillfully honed deprecating slur is almost lost to me. I've brought it back to life lately with ODL (Our Dear Leader) giving so many opportunities, almost too easy!
(18:00) What Hislop says about healthy disagreement is right. The more dogmatic someone's view, the weaker their argument becomes (if they can actually form one!) because they 'know for a fact' that there is no alternative view and therefore cannot not tolerate other opinions
@@josephgoogles1927 well that just proves you don't truly know what free speech is. Free speech is protected only by government, it would be a free speech issue if youtube was state - run. Please pick up a book
I rarely get around to reading Private Eye, but I am a subscriber. I look at my subs more as helping to fund an institution that's important for democracy and freedom of the press.
@Francesco C Private Eyes part of the problem. It was good 40 years ago but it's just an establishment propaganda rag now unfortunately. My sister has bought me the annual every Xmas for the past 5 years but it goes straight in the bin or charity shop!
Yeah funny that isn't it, it's because they compress the dynamic range to fvck so that the volume can be pushed to the maximum "in yer face" level......
:-B Video-makers do their own sound engineering, in other words, you get it at the original volume the vid-maker posted it (so no conspiracy). Unfortunately most vid makers ain't sound engineers, consequently their sound levels are all over the place. If you think this is inconvenient through a home system, imaginable listening to it through a studio monitoring system, when the adds kick in, they can topple tall buildings. Love ya, XXX :-B
@@Omnicient. No, firstly that won't work if the adverts are much louder, and second, the adverts show that the problem is with the original video's mastering.
he states the fact women throw themselves at wealth, the infamous '' grab em by the pussy'' quote! and everyone pretends pretty women are ardent socialists, impervious to whoring themselves too fame and money! Trump yes is a liar like all politicians. But they only hate him when he tells the Truth!
*_Private Eye is Yet Another Vehicle of Censorship._* Of course, Private Eye is a private organisation, like The Sun; as such it can of course, choose what it wants to investigate. For example, it can choose not to investigate its chums. Hislop and his organisation, Private Eye, were approached to investigate and address the abuse of powers of office as vehicles of malice outlined in the videos below. In the former, outlined in the documents obtained via Subject Access Requests in the video, and in the pinned comment; and in the latter in the pinned comment. Some years ago, Hislop and Private Eye were presented with conclusive and uncontroversial written evidence of a General Director of the BBC and Controller of Radio 3 lying to a Member of Parliament. They ignored it. The first video opens with documents that can only be described as illustrative of the legacy of Roger Wright's malice. To get the measure of the man, put "Roger Wright Expenses" into search engine. There is more, such as the common knowledge of his abuse of position to bed a cocaine addict. He wasn't alone. The cabal of Stephen Plaistow, Colin Matthews, Oliver Knussen, and Sally Groves all more than pulled their weight to destroy this particular composer. Members of this cabal and their hangers on were overheard at social occasions laughing about driving the composer in question to suicide, and gloating about sabotaging the one life-changing opportunity for this composer and conductor to be springboarded into an international career, far put of their reach. This caused the composer to develop diagnosed PTSD, that had killed his composition gift more than 30 years prior to the diagnosis. But social media has provided exposure of credible videos such as the two below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C4A0nFO0cZw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x-SygGiF-kU.html (It is interesting to note that this comment will only post as a response.)
@@jamesrowden303 & David P. Well, that's the standard of wit ? we have been treated to for several years now, by leftist LibLab marxist so-called satirists. Down the drain they go, and good riddance too.
Of course he does not. But could he not have spoken out. What was the mechanism that got Johnson in there? How did it happen that before running for Mayor he got that job. Ian must have known that Johnson’s image would get a boost. Were viewing numbers dropping?
Nearly everybody is in favor of free speech for themselves and those who agree with them, and eager to silence those who have views they don’t like. It has pretty much always been thus.
'Le Canard Enchaîné" doesn't have ads. None at all to avoid being compromised or suspected of being compromised. How could you run a story about an industry if it pays for an ad in you magazine? It's a very difficult choice but it makes them stand above the others.
Hislop knows A LOT more about contemporary culture than he lets on and than his detractors suspect. He was sometimes playing the ignorant oldie on HIGNFY.
Seemingly without a single giggle from the interviewer to smooth the conversation along. Interesting conversation and amusing enough without the interviewers enthusiasm, but it felt somewhat awkward. Thanks for the upload.
What he's saying around the 17 minute mark is spot on. I know several under 30s like this, they make out they're easy going 21st century kids but then they are outraged when somebody doesn't share their views.
Private Eye is the canary in the mine of British Democracy. It’s a fragile little beauty that exists in a potentially poisonous environment. If and when it dies, be afraid.
Ian Hislop and his organisation, Private Eye, were approached to investigate and address the abuse of powers of office as vehicles of malice outlined in the following videos. In the former, in the documents obtained via Subject Access Requests in the video, and in the pinned comment; and in the latter in the pinned comment. Some years ago, Hislop and Private Eye were presented with conclusive and uncontroversial written evidence of a General Director of the BBC and Controller of Radio 3 lying to a Member of Parliament. They ignored it. The first video opens with documents that can only be described as illustrative of the legacy of Roger Wright's malice. To get the measure of the man, put "Roger Wright Expenses" into search engine. There is more, such as the common knowledge of his abuse of position to bed a cocaine addict. He wasn't alone. The cabal of Stephen Plaistow, Colin Matthews, Oliver Knussen, and Sally Groves all more than pulled their weight to destroy this particular composer. Members of this cabal and their hangers on were overheard at social occasions laughing about driving the composer in question to suicide, and gloating about sabotaging the one life-changing opportunity for this composer and conductor to be springboarded into an international career, far put of their reach. This caused the composer to develop diagnosed PTSD, that had killed his composition gift more than 30 years prior to the diagnosis. But social media has provided exposure of credible videos such as the two below. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C4A0nFO0cZw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x-SygGiF-kU.html
@@laurieharper1526 😜😂🤣! I bet having a posh accent actually attracts prejudice. To be fair, I've done it myself when younger. "Don't judge a book by its cover"
Whilst I agree that people these days are somewhat "less robust" than previous generations. DAMN THAT WOMAN. I think she got away lightly there, Ms Church I admire your restraint. I am not so forgiving, so wouldn't have been so polite. DAMN!!!
@James D Robertson The real Winter of discontent was under Labour's Callaghan's Government....perhaps your too young to remember so do a bit of research , it might enlighten you.......capitalism works....Marxist and Socialist systems do not, they are just totalitarianism and dictatorships and putting them under a 'soft' banner of Labour lefty lunatics won't cut it.
