That was the question I wanted to answer in Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes and I have ... White with some rather rude rhymes in the Exeter Book of Riddles in the 10th century. There is Paul ...

Ian Hislop was hit by an electric bike as he crossed ... Then over the coming years, I managed to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the most money ever lost and hit a number of just huge ...

MY SISTER, her curiosity piqued by a primary school lesson on prehistoric life, once asked my grandma what it was like to use a bow and arrow. It’s a question that neatly illustrates the premise ...

Ian Hislop is a journalist, broadcaster and satirist. He is the editor of Private Eye and a team captain on the BBC quiz programme Have I Got News For You. Also this week: Good King Wenceslas’s winter ...

In his work as a journalist and commentator in print and on television Ian Hislop constantly demonstrates a healthy scepticism towards people in positions of power. Could his attitude be a ...