"Is there anyone who might have a grudge against you?"
Genuinely struggling to think who they might be alluding to here.
Robert Maxwell?
Given he hasn't said or done anything remotely controversial or interesting in about 30 years I'm going to say no.
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Piers Moron
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 7 Oct 2024, 1:47,
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Moron.
Piers, that is. Also Carter Fuck, Boris Johnson, and Macho Man Julian Assange.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Sun 6 Oct 2024, 17:52,
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I was mainly thinking of the Darius Guppy thing and Partygate
but you can take your pick.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Mon 7 Oct 2024, 18:01,
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Guessing the next lookalike will be Hislop and either Trump or Kennedy
possibly also a plaster over the cover knight's ear
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Given the number of times he's been sued
There are likely to be several people who might bear a grudge.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Mon 7 Oct 2024, 7:14,
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that's what he'd like you to believe, clearly
However:
all that litigation happened so long ago it's almost out of living memory - certainly many of the litigants are dead
he's an irrelevant establishment twat and so's the other one.
it wasn't an assassination attempt
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Who is the 'he' in 'that's what he'd like you to believe'?
The cab driver?
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Hislop would like people to believe he's a thorn in the side of the powerful when he's completely and utterly tame and has been for years.
In the improbable event that anyone would ever have a pop at him, the more likely culprit would be someone who's seen his kid do one of his excruciating skits on youtube
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So you don't like him
That's fair enough, but saying he's irrelevant seems excessive. For example, didn't Private Eye report on the Post Office scandal well before it reached mainstream news?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Mon 7 Oct 2024, 10:20,
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ComputerWorld broke the story but the Eye has probably covered it most.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 7 Oct 2024, 20:51,
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Both the article you posted and the BBC report state that it was the cab driver that thought the cab had been shot at, not Hislop.
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Yes and his reaction to that was "well I DO have a lot of enemies"
He doesn't. He's a tragic old fart trading off a myth he built up 30 years ago. He's mildly irritating to local authorities these days. Toothless and decrepit.
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