Ian Hislop, Private Eye, on satire and censorship speaking at Impact 2018

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  • @susanelainesanner
    @susanelainesanner Рік тому +12

    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
      @MrMjwoodford 10 місяців тому

      Jon Stewart

    • @susanelainesanner
      @susanelainesanner 10 місяців тому

      @@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.

    • @MrMjwoodford
      @MrMjwoodford 10 місяців тому +2

      @@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.

    • @bleysmcnutt5500
      @bleysmcnutt5500 8 місяців тому +2

      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.

    • @RegenTonnenEnte
      @RegenTonnenEnte 5 місяців тому

      Jordan Peterson

  • @johardy8512
    @johardy8512 Рік тому +16

    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

    • @johntomlinson6849
      @johntomlinson6849 10 місяців тому

      I'm right in my politics and find much to applaud in the Eye. It's not the preserve of the left.

  • @kevinian5528
    @kevinian5528 2 роки тому +19

    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.

  • @Dermacrosis
    @Dermacrosis Рік тому +21

    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". 😊

  • @OBWanKenobi
    @OBWanKenobi 3 роки тому +112

    In a world gone mad and corruption everywhere, I never get bored of listening to Hislop.

    • @benlotus2703
      @benlotus2703 2 роки тому +5

      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

    • @luminousfractal420
      @luminousfractal420 2 роки тому +1

      He was bored of it all at birth 😂

  • @thetrevor861
    @thetrevor861 5 років тому +27

    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.

  • @theotherandrew5540
    @theotherandrew5540 3 роки тому +34

    Satirical provocation is an absolutely essential part of democracy. Britain needs the Eye now more than ever before.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 3 роки тому

      Not THIS eye it don't, THE LEFT EYE, You need two eyes to acheive central vision, equality. GET IT ?

    • @rationalgazer
      @rationalgazer 2 роки тому +2

      @@MrDaiseymay lol... When the right's gone off the cliff, the centre is on the precipice. Calm down.

    • @rationalgazer
      @rationalgazer 2 роки тому

      @@MrDaiseymay I'm assuming you're completely behind parliamentary corruption then? That's 'your sort of thing'

  • @marc21091
    @marc21091 3 роки тому +29

    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.

    • @benlotus2703
      @benlotus2703 2 роки тому +4

      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....

  • @215Gallagher
    @215Gallagher 4 роки тому +50

    National treasure? International treasure. (from Australia)

    • @EGF1000
      @EGF1000 3 роки тому

      *_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.
      ua-cam.com/video/C4A0nFO0cZw/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/x-SygGiF-kU/v-deo.html
      (It is interesting to note that this comment will only post as a response.)

    • @215Gallagher
      @215Gallagher 3 роки тому

      @josh HIGNFY

  • @petercaley612
    @petercaley612 2 роки тому +20

    All democratic countries should have their own “Private Eye”.

    • @medievalladybird394
      @medievalladybird394 10 місяців тому +1

      PARDON from 1962 till 1982 in West Germany.
      Is Private Eye like PUNCH used to be?

    • @minui8758
      @minui8758 6 місяців тому +1

      @@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

    • @medievalladybird394
      @medievalladybird394 6 місяців тому

      @@minui8758
      Ofcourse it is or should be. "Esoteric" though sounds like I wouldn't like it.
      Thanks for answering. Have a nice day.

    • @medievalladybird394
      @medievalladybird394 6 місяців тому

      @@minui8758
      I can't remember Punch magazine being "silly", btw 🤔.

  • @danielwilson3671
    @danielwilson3671 2 роки тому +22

    I wish I had Ian's clarity of thought and way with words ... Great man!

  • @glengraham2319
    @glengraham2319 6 років тому +235

    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.

    • @garethm3242
      @garethm3242 6 років тому +11

      Well said.

    • @deepzepp4176
      @deepzepp4176 6 років тому +8

      Glen Graham This comment is just laughable.

    • @GeorgeMoonie
      @GeorgeMoonie 6 років тому +4

      I agree , well said

    • @undesignated3491
      @undesignated3491 6 років тому +7

      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.

    • @originalbadboy32
      @originalbadboy32 6 років тому +22

      @@undesignated3491 .. As opposed to destroying the UK with racist bigotry....

  • @timhancock6626
    @timhancock6626 3 роки тому +18

    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.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 3 роки тому

      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.

    • @everestyeti
      @everestyeti 2 роки тому +2

      Totally with your sentiments Tim, it appears that most of the population have been brainwashed into boredom.

    • @johnferguson40
      @johnferguson40 2 роки тому +1

      I would say rather, satire AND journalism.

  • @LeahyPhoto
    @LeahyPhoto 3 роки тому +52

    What a clear thinker Ian is. Excellent interviewer also.

  • @GraemeBT
    @GraemeBT 2 роки тому +3

    So pleased I can get the Eye digitally over here in the USA. Whenever I go back to the UK the first thing I do is buy a copy of the Eye.

  • @lindageorge8209
    @lindageorge8209 2 роки тому +5

    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...

  • @Bob_Dub
    @Bob_Dub 4 роки тому +19

    That 55 minutes just flew by, I could have listened for much longer.

  • @RobertJonesWightpaint
    @RobertJonesWightpaint 3 роки тому +9

    I love captions - turning Rees Mogg into "savoury smog" was so descriptive.

    • @marktunnicliffe2495
      @marktunnicliffe2495 2 роки тому

      That's brilliant...although un-savoury smog is a far more appropriate description for the man.

  • @mickdevlin
    @mickdevlin 3 роки тому +18

    The Eye is the last bastion of press freedom. Go Hislop. PC would be proud of you.

  • @martinjones5965
    @martinjones5965 2 роки тому +11

    Ian Hislop a national treasure ... actually International.

  • @adminimer5176
    @adminimer5176 11 місяців тому

    Ian Hislop is an International Treasure! I am from Florida and I appreciate his grit, understanding of issues with not just wit but facts aswell!

  • @paulkerrigan9857
    @paulkerrigan9857 4 роки тому +9

    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.

  • @MultiMolly21
    @MultiMolly21 5 років тому +27

    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!

  • @rw9207
    @rw9207 3 роки тому +7

    The services and accuracy the BBC / BBC News provides is invaluable. Not just in the UK but, for many world wide.

  • @jackiespendlow5297
    @jackiespendlow5297 5 років тому +33

    Long may Private Eye survive and thrive!

  • @petergreen2552
    @petergreen2552 5 років тому +16

    Private Eye is a great read. It hits everyone equally and fairly, left right and centre.

  • @anthonyhazlewood5788
    @anthonyhazlewood5788 4 роки тому +28

    I've always loved Ian Hislop... He hits the nail on the head... I also liked his train docu's.... Very humorous!

  • @garymorgan3314
    @garymorgan3314 3 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @daijones101
    @daijones101 Рік тому +6

    Ian Hislop is an absolute gem. He has big shoes to fill like those of Peter Cook.

  • @alexk3806
    @alexk3806 2 роки тому +7

    Greatest living Brit without an Olympic medal to his name

  • @qwvpv
    @qwvpv 5 років тому +95

    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."

    • @cjhards
      @cjhards 3 роки тому +2

      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...

    • @NowFunStarts
      @NowFunStarts 3 роки тому

      @@cjhards Lefty, what does that mean? You`re not making much of a point. Talk about IDS.

    • @SirAntoniousBlock
      @SirAntoniousBlock 3 роки тому

      @@cjhards Oh and you were doing quite well up till that.

    • @Михаиллеви
      @Михаиллеви 3 роки тому

      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.

    • @EGF1000
      @EGF1000 3 роки тому

      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.
      ua-cam.com/video/C4A0nFO0cZw/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/x-SygGiF-kU/v-deo.html

  • @novakingood3788
    @novakingood3788 3 роки тому +23

    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

    • @LivyathanAD
      @LivyathanAD 3 роки тому +2

      It's strange you mention that as I only saw the video of it last week. He was quoting Stephen Fry.
      ua-cam.com/video/jJtrRwOi2xo/v-deo.html&ab_channel=BBC

    • @jeanmyers1787
      @jeanmyers1787 3 роки тому

      I think that was Jeremy Clarkson

    • @Mrbenjmach
      @Mrbenjmach 2 роки тому

      @@jeanmyers1787 Pretty sure it was Stephen Fry on Radio 4, I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue

  • @theicebolt4361
    @theicebolt4361 3 роки тому +3

    . . . . just going to subscribe - bought it every other week at the supermarket, . . . .
    primary school caretaker.

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan 4 роки тому +18

    I hope he has a worthy successor lined up, otherwise he'll just have to keep working for another 30 years :-)

  • @cyrusbharucha2797
    @cyrusbharucha2797 3 роки тому +15

    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

    • @nazirkazi5119
      @nazirkazi5119 3 роки тому +10

      A Satyr club is rather a different animal to a satire club.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 3 роки тому

      WAS ONCE---etc

    • @tonycottingham169
      @tonycottingham169 2 роки тому +7

      "satyr clubs in Soho": what a great Freudian slip.

    • @jixuscrixus
      @jixuscrixus 2 роки тому +8

      Any of those ‘satyr’ clubs still around?
      Asking for a friend...

    • @andrewtregoning
      @andrewtregoning Рік тому

      Is The Onion a joke to you?

  • @johnferguson40
    @johnferguson40 2 роки тому +5

    Private Eye stood four square behind the post office shop managers who were unjustly pilloried by the Post Office and the legal system, for years.

  • @2wat205
    @2wat205 5 років тому +20

    After watching this I have just subscribed to Private Eye.

  • @harrypalmer3481
    @harrypalmer3481 3 роки тому +8

    Ian Hislop gets my vote.

    • @shesawindup
      @shesawindup 3 роки тому +1

      Best PM we'll never have

  • @jonathonjubb6626
    @jonathonjubb6626 3 роки тому +6

    Letter regarding Duke of York and bi-polar - brilliant! ( From another sufferer...)

  • @funkyalfonso
    @funkyalfonso 5 років тому +30

    You know you have a workable democracy when a publication like The Eye is available.

    • @MagikGimp
      @MagikGimp 4 роки тому +3

      Emphasis on it still being in development, as in not fully working. Hence each article in it.

    • @undesignated3491
      @undesignated3491 4 роки тому +2

      What a fucking prick

    • @thiamantithiso2620
      @thiamantithiso2620 3 роки тому +2

      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.

    • @danielokeefe2072
      @danielokeefe2072 2 роки тому +4

      @@thiamantithiso2620 if you believe Private Eye is purely satirical it is because you have never read it. The best investigate journalism in the UK

    • @marktunnicliffe2495
      @marktunnicliffe2495 2 роки тому

      I think we have The Eye "despite" of an non working democracy!!

  • @censusgary
    @censusgary 6 років тому +25

    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.

  • @chriscross5617
    @chriscross5617 6 років тому +70

    (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

    • @georgegraham6069
      @georgegraham6069 6 років тому +3

      Chris Cross are you that Christopher Cross? Anyway, to your point, what if someone happens to be right and the other person is wrong?

    • @undesignated3491
      @undesignated3491 6 років тому +2

      Healthy disagreement according to what he deems to be unhealthy.

    • @donbrogan3158
      @donbrogan3158 4 роки тому +3

      Sounds like the left. No argument, just call people names.

    • @donbrogan3158
      @donbrogan3158 4 роки тому

      @Nobby Heads Are you calling me a pot kettle?

    • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
      @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 3 роки тому +1

      And funnily enough, when it came to Brexit, Hislop couldn't accept that people voted differently to what he had done.

  • @billgreen576
    @billgreen576 2 роки тому +5

    Ian is correct to be concerned about no platforming. And things are not getting better since he said it.

  • @petergilbert7106
    @petergilbert7106 6 років тому +176

    This interviewer is pretty verbose but asks good questions. He reminds me of Richard Osmand and Stephen Merchant. Ian Hislop is fantastic.

    • @gordoniusmaximus
      @gordoniusmaximus 6 років тому +4

      I suppose when you refer to Osmand you mean Richard Osman, but then you are the expert

    • @RAWDernison1
      @RAWDernison1 5 років тому +2

      It's Stephen Merchant. Ginger gone black.

    • @OldglenSea-cw4ps
      @OldglenSea-cw4ps 5 років тому +1

      Hislop would destroy our country in an instant! He is all about MONEY!

    • @OldglenSea-cw4ps
      @OldglenSea-cw4ps 5 років тому

      @ZebsFrend. A lot like you. You know you aren't nice at all.

    • @ashleylaw
      @ashleylaw 4 роки тому

      Hislop is a MI% agent. Wake up.

  • @danielgarner1959
    @danielgarner1959 3 роки тому +14

    Speak up, speak out, never let anyone censor the truth!!!!

  • @elainepayne7047
    @elainepayne7047 3 роки тому +6

    Please get him again now in 2021. Please.

  • @ckon2u
    @ckon2u 6 років тому +58

    Love this guy, very funny, very smart and articulate

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 4 роки тому

      are you his father?

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Рік тому

      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.

  • @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039
    @iamcarbonandotherbits.8039 2 роки тому +4

    Ian Hislop would make a better Prime minister than both parties have on offer at the moment.

  • @kingloser4198
    @kingloser4198 4 роки тому +26

    You know Toby Jones is going to get the gig if they ever make a film about him.

    • @Tombombadil2
      @Tombombadil2 3 роки тому

      You tube is the enemy of free speech.

    • @actionjaxon7570
      @actionjaxon7570 3 роки тому

      @@Tombombadil2 youtube is a private company fs its nothing to do with free speech.

    • @Tombombadil2
      @Tombombadil2 3 роки тому

      @@actionjaxon7570 irrelevance

    • @actionjaxon7570
      @actionjaxon7570 3 роки тому

      @@Tombombadil2 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

    • @spartanclucky884
      @spartanclucky884 3 роки тому

      @@actionjaxon7570 Just ignore susan... Litteraly the only thing on per profile is "No Vaccine = Star"... like seriously, some people are just moronic.

  • @danwic
    @danwic 3 роки тому +12

    Love Ian Hislop :) Not to sound cliché but he does say it as it is.

    • @EGF1000
      @EGF1000 3 роки тому

      *_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.
      ua-cam.com/video/C4A0nFO0cZw/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/x-SygGiF-kU/v-deo.html
      (It is interesting to note that this comment will only post as a response.)

  • @GravityBoy72
    @GravityBoy72 3 роки тому +8

    The ordinary public have the same rights to free speech as comedians.
    Never ever forget that.

  • @helenrichmond6373
    @helenrichmond6373 6 років тому +73

    It seems now that all You Tube posts are subject to a low volume level. Funnily enough the volume is fine when there are ads.

    • @MultiMolly21
      @MultiMolly21 5 років тому +2

      Took the words, as they say, right out of my mouth. Thought I was imagining things!

    • @myriaddsystems
      @myriaddsystems 5 років тому +3

      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......

    • @tezzo55
      @tezzo55 5 років тому +2

      :-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

    • @rattusnorvegicus4380
      @rattusnorvegicus4380 5 років тому +3

      Funnily enough, I don`t suffer ads because for donkeys years, ABP has shooed them away

    • @farmbrough
      @farmbrough 4 роки тому

      @@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.

  • @alnilam2151
    @alnilam2151 Рік тому +1

    Eye2 saw that episode of "PrivateEye" and thought, IT WAS SPOT ON BRILLIANT! {\}

  • @tyranneous
    @tyranneous 6 років тому +7

    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.

  • @paulyflyer8154
    @paulyflyer8154 3 роки тому +4

    Just 2 years on in Feb 2021 this interview is already anachronistic in authoritarian and Orwellian Britain.

  • @victoriaduffy6538
    @victoriaduffy6538 4 роки тому +18

    Such a great man, great interview, great fun.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 3 роки тому

      get your medication reviewed.

  • @rabidbigdog
    @rabidbigdog 2 роки тому +4

    Did Ian Hislop and Christopher Hitchens ever share a stage? That would be extraordinary.

    • @bruces6347
      @bruces6347 2 роки тому +1

      If only….. That would have been a meeting of great minds.

  • @davemurphy2020
    @davemurphy2020 4 роки тому +11

    Great publication, the eye. Hislop is a great smug twat. Hope he keeps up the good work.

  • @TheKirkby
    @TheKirkby 5 років тому +13

    I could listen to Ian spouting out the truth for hours.

  • @1969Kismet
    @1969Kismet 3 роки тому +2

    '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.

  • @Mousy677
    @Mousy677 3 роки тому +6

    i respect b.w. cloughley (rev)'s writing ability, honestly

  • @robertnorton6736
    @robertnorton6736 2 роки тому +7

    A well- delivered joke can cut deeper than a sword.

  • @johngreenwood1972
    @johngreenwood1972 5 років тому +9

    Love listening to him. The humorous voice of reason.

  • @lindahart6049
    @lindahart6049 6 років тому +14

    Thanks for the upload. This was a great episode.

  • @Tomevanscomedy
    @Tomevanscomedy 6 років тому +20

    13:45 That's the best way I've heard anyone put the whole culture we have atm.

  • @lesleyelalami2562
    @lesleyelalami2562 2 роки тому +4

    Ian would be voted in as Court Jester.... creating a state of balance and levity.

  • @MrValz0
    @MrValz0 4 роки тому +10

    That maybe the first time I've ever heard Ian Hislop drop the f-bomb and it was glorious.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay 3 роки тому

      @James Rowden & 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.

    • @louise5984
      @louise5984 3 роки тому +1

      @@MrDaiseymay yes indeed, how dare they. Foul language is the mark of a real cunt.

    • @everestyeti
      @everestyeti 2 роки тому

      @@MrDaiseymay Well at least he's not a right wing lying politician, making sounds like a car and going on about Pepper 🐖

  • @mikeharland3358
    @mikeharland3358 2 роки тому +2

    It Johnson had not been on “Have I got news for you” he would not have made mayor, or MP or PM. And we would still be in the EU.
    Thanks Ian.

    • @philwill0123
      @philwill0123 2 роки тому

      He doesn't book the guests.

    • @mikeharland3358
      @mikeharland3358 2 роки тому

      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?

  • @kisfekete
    @kisfekete 5 років тому +9

    Mr. Hislop on Trump: '...He's, he's very successful with women, except the ones who know him.'
    You've gotta love a professional satirist.

    • @oldschoolcockneylover8138
      @oldschoolcockneylover8138 5 років тому +1

      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!

    • @everestyeti
      @everestyeti 2 роки тому

      @@oldschoolcockneylover8138 When was the last time Trump told the truth, must have missed that decade.

  • @jaewok5G
    @jaewok5G 6 років тому +7

    i can't believe that the into listing of his enemies skipped the Archers!!

    • @Tombombadil2
      @Tombombadil2 3 роки тому +1

      You tube is the enemy of free speech.

  • @christinestromberg4057
    @christinestromberg4057 4 роки тому +13

    Those subtitles are hilarious. I particularly love the idea of referring to Reese Mogg as savoury smog. LOL

    • @Milktacheable
      @Milktacheable 3 роки тому

      Shit now I’m craving Savoury Smogs

  • @0robbi0
    @0robbi0 3 роки тому +10

    I do not often agree with Ian, but I like him. Remember when people thought like that?? Oh the good old days lol

  • @paulyflyer8154
    @paulyflyer8154 3 роки тому +9

    And here we are 3 years later in orwellian 2021 where all truth is censored....

    • @TransmissionEpicts
      @TransmissionEpicts Рік тому

      Well we're watching this and still buying Private Eye, so I guess there's hope.

    • @paulyflyer8154
      @paulyflyer8154 Рік тому

      @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!

  • @ceml9855
    @ceml9855 2 роки тому +2

    Wish I can buy Private Eye where I live!

  • @MinistryoAgriculture
    @MinistryoAgriculture 2 роки тому +2

    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.

  • @williampjohnston53
    @williampjohnston53 3 роки тому +3

    Private Eye used to be ANTI Establishment. What happened?

    • @EGF1000
      @EGF1000 3 роки тому

      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.
      ua-cam.com/video/C4A0nFO0cZw/v-deo.html
      ua-cam.com/video/x-SygGiF-kU/v-deo.html

  • @Szaam
    @Szaam 6 років тому +8

    I never thought I'd see the day when Ian Hislop would mention Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists.

    • @thedolphin5428
      @thedolphin5428 5 років тому +6

      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.

    • @zapfanzapfan
      @zapfanzapfan 4 роки тому +1

      I must have seen this two years ago and not caught that but watching it now I knew what it was.

  • @wayneuk62
    @wayneuk62 2 роки тому +4

    Ian is a legend 👍🏻

  • @Etherian87
    @Etherian87 2 роки тому +1

    as someone with type 2 bipolar that joke LITERALLY made me spit my coffee onto my keyboard. good thing i had another one while it dries off.

  • @jchawthorn
    @jchawthorn 3 роки тому +6

    A brilliant man and an icon liberalism.I hope he reads the two articles in The Economist about the return of the Inquisition.

    • @mirthbaron1525
      @mirthbaron1525 2 роки тому +1

      Liberalism and globalism are killing the red squirrel.

    • @jchawthorn
      @jchawthorn 2 роки тому

      The red squirrels died out in areas following the introduction of the grey from the US colony.

  • @johnattwood7114
    @johnattwood7114 4 роки тому +8

    I've known who he is for 'years but I only just got past his mannerisms and accent to realise, I like him!

    • @laurieharper1526
      @laurieharper1526 4 роки тому +1

      Yep. Some of these public school old boys are all right. They're not all unscrupulous bastards.

    • @johnattwood7114
      @johnattwood7114 4 роки тому +2

      @@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"

    • @farmbrough
      @farmbrough 4 роки тому

      He doesn't actually have an accent.

    • @laurieharper1526
      @laurieharper1526 4 роки тому +1

      @@farmbrough He doesn't if you, like me, speak RP. However, viewed objectively, that is just another accent.

    • @farmbrough
      @farmbrough 4 роки тому +1

      @@laurieharper1526 yes, I'm aware of that. That was my joke.

  • @Grogster2007
    @Grogster2007 4 роки тому +6

    Well said about NHS hysteria happening every year.....every government have the same problem.

    • @Grogster2007
      @Grogster2007 4 роки тому +2

      @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.

  • @davidwatson3035
    @davidwatson3035 6 років тому +13

    He's right about everything, especially the bloody farmers and Brexit!

  • @truthhurts9241
    @truthhurts9241 3 роки тому +1

    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!!!

  • @pip208
    @pip208 2 роки тому +4

    Love Ian Hislop

  • @chrisst8922
    @chrisst8922 3 роки тому +2

    Ian seems like sure a good man. Maybe not but I do like him.

  • @gmonkman
    @gmonkman 6 років тому +4

    £2, best investment in democracy i've ever made. Although ugandan talks seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. Are ugandan studies still offered in government?

  • @Nickikiddi
    @Nickikiddi 6 років тому +6

    I am amazed that Ian Hislop is aware of the transgender v TERF political debate

    • @otterhero6229
      @otterhero6229 5 років тому

      I'm very glad he is. Nice to know that people in power know about these issues.

  • @BNCA70
    @BNCA70 5 років тому +4

    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.

    • @ajbriggs
      @ajbriggs 2 роки тому +1

      This seems to be the same for all ages in the world we’re currently in.

  • @TheVanpablo79
    @TheVanpablo79 3 роки тому +5

    That bi-polar joke 😆😆😆

  • @billgreen576
    @billgreen576 2 роки тому +2

    This was great. Stephen Merchant did a good interview. But don't take random unscreened questions from an audience.

  • @wallacetf
    @wallacetf 4 роки тому +4

    frosties are my favourite too

  • @jeannedonohoe9683
    @jeannedonohoe9683 2 роки тому +3

    The Subtitles are a new level of subversive humour all by themselves!

  • @staninjapan07
    @staninjapan07 6 років тому

    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.

  • @pippipster6767
    @pippipster6767 3 роки тому +2

    Some proper daft questions...
    Eg. -
    Something happens, how does it get into Private Eye?

  • @villeporttila5161
    @villeporttila5161 3 роки тому +4

    Hislop is the OG

  • @craigdavidson2278
    @craigdavidson2278 4 роки тому +2

    Can't argue with his logic....

  • @jackwillard8479
    @jackwillard8479 6 років тому +11

    interviewer bit keen to pack in as many audience qs as possible, half the time trying to move on before Ian's even answered

    • @MickeyDJ1
      @MickeyDJ1 3 роки тому

      I think he was directing microphones for the next question, to save time.

  • @PastCaring100
    @PastCaring100 6 років тому +3

    Much as I agree with Ian Hislop, I would like to point out that as Russia Today is financed by their government, the BBC's finances, although not direct grants from the state, are controlled by the British government, via the licence fee.

  • @laughingachilles
    @laughingachilles 5 років тому +3

    7:00 - "That brilliant Michael Wolf book..."
    This is something I didn't expect to hear from Ian Hislop as the book has been exposed as being full of lies, even by some of Trumps' critics. When we are dealing with anonymous sources for some of the most outrageous claims, and when some claims have been proven as absolutely false, how can any respectable journalist claim the book is brilliant? Ian Hislop is a very intelligent man, he is also a very well informed man and so he has no excuse to make such a silly comment.
    Private Eye is great and it has revealed a great many scandals, but the way it operates is open to abuse by the intelligence services and politicians hoping to push certain angles. It would not be difficult to develop a trusted source by feeding stories to Private Eye over a number of years which were correct and then throwing in a false or partially false story at the right moment. His (Ian Hislops') opinion that journalism is about being told things by those in the right positions is a poor definition of journalism. The greatest journalists go out and discover information, they use secret recordings, they follow paper trails, they get themselves in the middle of things in order to have direct experience of what is going on and then attempt to present the information in the most objective manner possible.
    Being told things should at best be considered the jumping off point of an investigation.