The last bastion on British journalism
And that’s why I subscribe to Private Eye even though I rarely have the energy to read it
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels that way. I found myself not wanting to read them after a while!
Easily my favourite section is the bit about journalism itself. Very eye opening (no pun intended)
There was a clip from Ian Hislop and 2 others from the Eye attending a select committee or something advising politicians about how they could handle disclosing gifts better, and there’s a funny/excruciating bit where one of the Eye journalists responds to an argument saying “they’re beneficial to the constituancy” by reading out to the politician what ‘gifts’ he has claimed: “football tickets… Opera… Stay in a hotel…” until the chairman or whatever intervenes. Private Eye don’t fuck about.
