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Paul Merton reveals what he really thinks of Ian Hislop

Paul Merton has let Have I Got News For You fans know what he really thinks of his fellow team captain Ian Hislop.

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025

Have I Got News for You season 70: release date, star guests, episode guide and everything we know

Have I Got News for You season 70 lands on BBC One with team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop at the helm.

WhatToWatch · Sep 24, 2025

OPINION - The chilling truth is that now even waving a copy of Private Eye can get you arrested

Well, it’s quite the coup for Private Eye, isn’t it? If you’re a satirical magazine, there are two ways of showing that you’re having an impact. One is to provoke Islamists to the point where they murder your staff, as in the case of the Charli Hebdo murders in Paris…

Evening Standard · Jul 24, 2025

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Ian Hislop slams ‘mind-boggling’ arrest of pensioner for holding up Private Eye cover at pro-Palestine protest

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop says the satirical magazine cover is ‘quite blatantly an example of freedom of speech’

The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2025

Ian Hislop blasts 'mindboggling' terror arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon

Ian Hyslop, editor of prominent satirical magazine Private Eye, has hit out after a man was arrested holding a cartoon it published mocking the ban…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 23, 2025

Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’

Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban

The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2025

Voices: Farewell, Anna Wintour – the Queen of editors with a nuclear-force superpower

COMMENT: The ravens are leaving the tower of fashion with news that the longtime American ‘Vogue’ editor is standing down. Former magazine editor Rowan Pelling had a ringside seat for the glamour, power and excess that ‘Mag Land’ controlled

The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2025

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Private Eye cartoonist Barry Fantoni dies aged 85

He had been a long-term stalwart of the Private Eye editorial team from 1963 until his retirement in 2010.

Evening Standard · May 21, 2025

Ian Hislop names best and worst Have I Got News For You guest and reveals what makes show so unique

Ian Hislop has named his best and worst Have I Got News For You guest and revealed what makes the show so unique.

The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2025

Have I Got News for You season 69: release date, star guests and everything we know

Have I Got News for You season 69 (quiet at the back!) sees the return of Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on the BBC satirical show.

WhatToWatch · Mar 19, 2025

The Autobiography of a Cad review – a playful mockery of entitlement and greed

A fine, multitasking cast of three deliver laughs aplenty in Ian Hislop and Nick Newman’s adaptation of a 1930s satire, though the cad’s true malice is lacking

The Guardian - UK · Feb 23, 2025

The Autobiography of a Cad review – Ian Hislop and Nick Newman retell a rotter’s political progress

The Private Eye duo adapt AG Macdonell’s satire showing how a privileged chancer in English public life gets away with it

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2025

Elon Musk believes he got Trump elected. Now he’s coming for Europe

Experts say the EU can wield its digital services rules against election interference – but even that won’t be easy.

Al Jazeera · Jan 21, 2025

Ian Hislop praised for ‘perfect’ takedown of ‘contradiction-riddled’ Elon Musk

‘Have I Got News for You’ star and ‘Private Eye’ editor didn’t hold back when tearing into tech billionaire

The Independent UK · Jan 10, 2025

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The Independent UK · Dec 13, 2024

Ian Hislop suffers head injury after being hit in road accident

It comes weeks after Hislop was involved in a taxi accident originally suspected to be a shooting

Evening Standard · Dec 12, 2024

Ian Hislop left with head injuries after being hit by electric bike

The Private Eye editor and TV personality is said to be ‘okay’ after being struck by electric bike

Evening Standard · Dec 3, 2024

This eye-popping pink Jaguar is pure sci-fi: it's also baiting us and we've fallen for it

The advert, it seems universally agreed, isn’t very good. “Vapid”, according to the BBC’s Today programme. “I thought it was the Clangers,” Ian Hislop exclaimed on Have I Got News For You. Nigel Farage expects and indeed hopes that Jaguar will go bust as result of departing so egregiously from…

The Independent UK · Nov 21, 2024

Ian Hislop hits out at Justin Welby for attending British Museum gala one day after resignation

Private Eye editor says it was ‘jaw-dropping’ to see Welby at event so soon after resigning

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Evening Standard · Nov 21, 2024

Ian Hislop: Jaw-dropping that Welby went to event day after resignation

The Have I Got News For You star said he could not believe the Archbishop of Canterbury turned up to a British Museum trustees’ dinner.

The Independent UK · Nov 5, 2024

Have I Got News For You hit by government threats over ‘enormous bias’, says Ian Hislop

Show has been a mainstay of British television for its irreverent approach to news

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2024

‘I was a stuffed shirt, he was an oik’ – Ian Hislop and Paul Merton on making Have I Got News for You

‘My mother came along to the filming of the pilot episode – and afterwards she said, “Oh, never mind, darling”’

Evening Standard · Oct 16, 2024

Standard reporter named journalist of the year for exposing secretive 'conveyor belt justice'

Tristan Kirk hailed as ‘a journalist who made a difference’ for his investigation into flaws of Single Justice Procedure

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2024

Ian Hislop has uncomfortable Have I Got News For You exchange with ex-Tory MP Andrea Jenkyns

‘You’ve got no evidence for that,’ Hislop replied, after Jenkyns claimed that the show’s studio audience had been hand-picked for political reasons

Evening Standard · Oct 5, 2024

Ian Hislop opens BBC broadcast with joke about taxi incident

It was initially believed the London black taxi had been hit by a bullet.

The National (Scotland) · Oct 4, 2024

Ian Hislop opens Have I Got News For You with joke about taxi 'gunshot' incident

IAN Hislop opened the BBC's Have I Got News For You broadcast by saying “I always say at this point I’m glad to be here, but this week I really…

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