QUANGO - DAVID CAMERON WILL NEVER BE HIP As we speak, Dave is probably getting some spotty Number 10 wonk to create hour-long weekly zeitgeist videos for him: who Snookie is, the necessary and sufficient conditions for trolling to occur, how Pitbull’s career is going. Just the important stuff. If he were braver, his office would have come out with an official statement saying, in so many words, “Look. I haven’t got time for this shit, OK? I’m running the fucking country. The UK: ever fucking heard of it?” Normality is the curse most of us have to live through. It is not the dream to which we should aspire. Read the full article here

QUANGO - DAVID CAMERON WILL NEVER BE HIP

As we speak, Dave is probably getting some spotty Number 10 wonk to create hour-long weekly zeitgeist videos for him: who Snookie is, the necessary and sufficient conditions for trolling to occur, how Pitbull’s career is going. Just the important stuff. If he were braver, his office would have come out with an official statement saying, in so many words, “Look. I haven’t got time for this shit, OK? I’m running the fucking country. The UK: ever fucking heard of it?” Normality is the curse most of us have to live through. It is not the dream to which we should aspire.

Read the full article here

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BEING REBEKAH BROOKS Paparazzi never get a clear view of Rebekah Brooks. The former News of the World and Sun editor tends to just be a blur of orange whisking by them in her fancy SUV. So, on the morning of May 11, 2012, we dressed up a ginger girl we know and “identity hacked” David Cameron’s crush outside the Leveson Inquiry. It was fun! Watch the film here

BEING REBEKAH BROOKS

Paparazzi never get a clear view of Rebekah Brooks. The former News of the World and Sun editor tends to just be a blur of orange whisking by them in her fancy SUV. So, on the morning of May 11, 2012, we dressed up a ginger girl we know and “identity hacked” David Cameron’s crush outside the Leveson Inquiry. It was fun!

Watch the film here

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AN INTERVIEW WITH IAN HISLOP For those of you without taste or eyes, Private Eye is a fortnightly satirical newsprint magazine that contains more actual news than all the other newspapers made in Britain during the two weeks it takes to put an issue of Private Eye together. In fact, it is one of a very small number of news publications that remains worth a shit. Not only is it consistently hilarious, informative and subversive, it wields a mighty punch. Private Eye has acted like a sharpened pin to the whoopee cushion of incessant lies and deceit that has become the common currency of modern British politics. Its relentless and savage satire remains perhaps one of the truest checks on UK executive power. As if to prove that, today its editor Ian Hislop will give evidence at the Leveson inquiry, as the British press tries to figure out how best to regulate itself in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. It is no coincidence that, as the longest-serving editor of the magazine, Hislop is the most sued man in Britain and that the magazine keeps a “fighting fund” on hand to payroll the endless litigation they face. Back in October 2008, we met him in his offices in Soho and drank tea with him while staring at all the amazing stuff on the walls and trying to concentrate on asking the questions. (He has a piano in there on which they play Mozart while they’re coming up with jokes.) He is my hero. Read the full interview here

AN INTERVIEW WITH IAN HISLOP

For those of you without taste or eyes, Private Eye is a fortnightly satirical newsprint magazine that contains more actual news than all the other newspapers made in Britain during the two weeks it takes to put an issue of Private Eye together. In fact, it is one of a very small number of news publications that remains worth a shit.

Not only is it consistently hilarious, informative and subversive, it wields a mighty punch. Private Eye has acted like a sharpened pin to the whoopee cushion of incessant lies and deceit that has become the common currency of modern British politics. Its relentless and savage satire remains perhaps one of the truest checks on UK executive power. As if to prove that, today its editor Ian Hislop will give evidence at the Leveson inquiry, as the British press tries to figure out how best to regulate itself in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.

It is no coincidence that, as the longest-serving editor of the magazine, Hislop is the most sued man in Britain and that the magazine keeps a “fighting fund” on hand to payroll the endless litigation they face.

Back in October 2008, we met him in his offices in Soho and drank tea with him while staring at all the amazing stuff on the walls and trying to concentrate on asking the questions. (He has a piano in there on which they play Mozart while they’re coming up with jokes.) He is my hero.

Read the full interview here

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