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 ...

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 ...

With the help of contemporary comedians, scholars and an appetite for enduring humour, Ian Hislop tracks down the earliest examples of enduring British comedy tropes and jokes. Show more There are ...

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 ...