Did you ever pick up Private Eye?
He didn’t become the most sued person in Britain for nothing.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 28 Nov 2024, 7:53,
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Suspect he came up with that sobriquet himself
Now he has endorsements from Ann Widdecombe and hangs about in the same circles as the Archbishop of Canterbury (whilst sneering at "the great and the good"!).
He's the establishment's idea of what a satirist should be - public school, Oxbridge, tory and tame. And when the time comes he'll disappoint all his geriatric fanboys by taking that gong without a hint of shame.
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Tory?
He certainly hides it well by decades of constant derision towards them, and hiring writers like Paul foot. I mean he’s not an ex miner selling copies of the socialist worker, or whatever it is you think gives one integrity, but there’s been quite a few notable victories over the years because he’s persued those causes, the post office horizon shitfuckery just being the latest.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 28 Nov 2024, 10:05,
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"...hangs about in the same circles as the Archbishop of Canterbury"
... where he recently publicly took Welby to task about his cover up of the abuse of John Smyth (a story Private Eye had been covering for years). Private Eye (as I'm sure you know) turns over rocks and pokes sticks into dark corners with stories that are often overlooked by the mainstream media companies and frequently with embarrassing consequences for the "establishment". The Eye (and a few others, like Computer Weekly) were famously documenting the Post Office scandal for years before it became a cause celebre. I think they are even namechecked in "Mr Bates Vs The Post Office".
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Private Eye is a magazine for dusty old cranks who are upset about their council tax going up
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What would you suggest instead?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 28 Nov 2024, 12:27,
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Razzle
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 29 Nov 2024, 6:26,
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Or ordinary people who want to see a light shone on corruption, malpractice and criminal behaviour in politics, law, utilities, transport, local government, medicine, business, media, the arts, agriculture, defence, education, etc, etc, that often goes unreported elsewhere.
Private Eye is doing good stuff, and it is great to see a printed publication surviving and still doing good journalism. Long may they continue.
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The only investigative journalism in the UK
Aside from Post Office Horizon, they did a great edition on covid racketeering and are pretty much the only part of the press covering the jiggery-pokery in Teesside. The rest of the press is mostly opinion columns and dancing contests.
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