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

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

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.

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

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

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

‘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