Ian Hislop

Roger Moore Has Got 'News For You'

PA | Posted 31.10.2012 | UK Entertainment

Former 'James Bond' star Roger Moore is to take a turn in the hot seat as a guest host on 'Have I Got News For You'. The 85-year-old will chair the...

Forgotten Feelings: Our Emotional Past

Thomas Dixon | Posted 01.12.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Thomas Dixon

What on earth has happened to the national reserve and emotional continence for which we Brits were once internationally famed? Where is the 'stiff upper lip' attributed to 'good Queen Bess' and the Duke of Wellington by George and Ira Gershwin in 1937?

Why This Country Needs Satire More Than Ever

The Independent | Posted 05.11.2012 | UK Comedy

It is a surprise, and rather a pleasant one, that The Establishment club is to make a muted return to Soho over 50 years after its brief and heady suc...

The Week That Was: The Games Have Started

Carla Buzasi | Posted 13.09.2012 | UK Sport
Carla Buzasi

Having been scared half out of my mind last Saturday night when Johnson's voice came booming out of the bus shelter I was sitting in at midnight, I'm probably not the only one looking forward to the Games being over. If nothing else, it should take him off our front pages and back into City Hall or, at the very least, the presenting chair of Have I Got News For You, where you can rely on Ian Hislop to keep him in his place. You yearned to see Hislop pop up in the aforementioned Proctor & Gamble salon with some sharp quip to de-cheese the moment.

The Funniest Twitter Reactions To Rupert Murdoch At Leveson

The Huffington Post UK | Andrea Mann | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Comedy

So, ol' Dirty Digger himself - Keith Rupert Murdoch - appeared in front of the Leveson inquiry today. For a serious round-up of exactly what he re...

How Milly Dowler's Voicemails Were Deleted 'Is Not The Issue' Insists Guardian Editor

PA/Huffington Post UK | Paul Vale | Posted 17.01.2012 | UK

How Milly Dowler’s voicemails were deleted is “not the prime issue” the editor of the Guardian, the paper that broke the phone hacking story, to...

Super Injunctions - 'Twitter Is Not A Mass Medium'

The Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK Politics

The number of celebrities hiding behind super-injunctions has fallen dramatically, Britain's top newspaper editors have confirmed. Earlier this yea...

SLIDESHOW: Private Eye Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 18.12.2011 | UK

Private Eye is Britain's best loved, and indeed only, fortnightly satirical magazine. It was founded back in October 1961, so this month turns the gra...

That's (not) Enough Female Comedy Writers. Ed.

Andrea Mann | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK Comedy
Andrea Mann

As for Ian Hislop's point about women not putting themselves forward in the way that men do: again, I'd argue that whether it's for cultural, social or biological reasons (most likely all three), he's pretty much correct.

Ian Hislop Warns Against Restricting Press Freedoms

Huffington Post UK | Chris Wimpress | Posted 10.09.2011 | UK Politics

All eyes in Parliament were on the main Commons chamber because the BSkyB takeover deal had just been delayed. Jeremy Hunt was about to appear before...