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Ian Hislop Quotes

born 1960 England

Ian Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is editor, and part-owner, of British satirical magazine Private Eye and a panelist on Have I Got News for You. Owing to the many writs for libel Private Eye once received, Hislop has sometimes been described as being "the most sued man in Britain".

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The trouble about working on a tabloid is that they tend to be run by bullies.

Boris Johnson, people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I always say, 'No.'

I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

If this is justice, I am a banana.

In Britain we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ian Hislop (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.