Ian Hislop: Private Eye editor looks at satire in a world beyond satire
LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 03: Journalist Ian Hislop arrives to celebrate the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction at London's Royal Festival Hall on Wednesday 3 June 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for DIAGEO)
Ian Hislop, editor of the UK satirical magazine Private Eye, and team captain on political panel show Have I Got News For You, has every reason to be thoroughly pessimistic.
He's stood by print as the Eye's main medium, even as the pandemic forced yet more of the UK's media online. He's steering the mag through a polarised time when an increasing percentage of the public do not enjoy seeing their political side mocked.
