No, he's a hypocrite who criticise others but suppresses examination of his own behaviour. Morons like him because he reads out jokes on television.

No he is not. He just happens to be on the righteous side this one time.

@@johnmountainstone1177 Yes he is!

@@johnmountainstone1177he’s literally made his whole career about highlighting corruption. I guess you’ve never read Private Eye

How many other journalists do we see who have the grasp of the facts and no reluctance to tear into politicians that Mr Hislop has? Many journalists and interviewers will only push it so far and often let the politicians BS slide for fear of being blacklisted or because they don't know they're being fobbed off. How much better it would be if they all took Ian's approach.

I mean, both Ian and Paul did, repeatedly, on HIGNFY. Unfortunately that was clearly not a big enough warning sign to stop him getting elected...

He was always a good source of information on Have I Got New For You, information that you wouldn't hear anyone else talk about on TV for 'legal reasons' and career advancement reasons. Hislop has been laughing in the face of lawyers and judges with their vested interests for decades.

PROGRAMME'S OVER!!!!

I have been reading Private Eye for years and this scandalous story has been a regular appearance, he and the team on proper journalists in the Private Eye should all be lauded for their tenacious pursuit of this story, it is a crying shame that it had to take a TV drama and an election year to move this to the point that those that were wronged are restituted - long live Ian and his team.

@@painstruck01 The Post Office and Horizon scandal isn't though.

Sadly Ian can't be this voice forever and I'm not sure who we've got to take his place when he decides to retire. I hope he knows who his successor is because I don't.

Only reason he’s not been knighted is because of how much he’s bashed Brenda & the rest of the royals over the years.

Not certain he'd accept one tbh

​@@Toronto_Jameswhat I love is he goes for everyone when it's justified. He says he's pro constitutional monarchy, but he can still call it out and puncture it. Private Eye is perfect because it's cynicism striving for kindness and lambasting everything on the way.

PE didn't break the story, but they did run it for years.

​@@EdwardLindonHislop has spoke in glowing terms of the investigative reporters who ferretted out these issues. He gives them absolute credit and was privileged to give them a platform and defend the story in court. Skin must be pretty tough with all the cases hes had to fight

At the same time as Hislop and _Private Eye_ were brilliantly covering and campaigning the Post Office scandal, he and it were attacking Julian Assange and taking part in the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn. I haven't heard Hislop apologising for himself deliberately lying about Corbyn.

Blame the successive governments!

And what part of corporate nonsense did Fujitsu did commit. Sounds like the the customer did not like the answers they were getting after being warned of the limitations and potential errors.

@@flateric1594 if you can point where this was stated n court or the enquiry and not a tv drama. In most large scale systems acces to the hw and sw is common. Log files are created so I am not sure why access would have been denied and why lie about it.

The only people I would vote for would never go into politics in the first place.

100%👏👏👏

I've never seen him rage so hard. It's quite impressive actually

quickly? this isnt new for him hahahaha. hes a legend and not a recent one at that.

Yep he already was... and unfortunately I don't it helps him or his team being proven correct decade's later. Too much damage has already been done and I'm sure it just makes him even more angry

@@sunnytimes_ fuel for the fire my friend, fuel for the fire.

He has been for a long time

he's an upperclass snobby git. some hero.

👌 It’s a wonderful combination

Well said.

Oh come on...anybody with a modicum of intelligence knows when an MP is talking crap: It's when they open their mouths and begin to speak. With the honourable exception of Andrew Bridgen.

@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne : Andrew Bridgen !!!😂😂😂😂…….Alex Belfield’s fanboy 😂😂😂😂

Only in your sad world@@Kingcarparpeggio

@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 😱😭😂😂😂

@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne Soon to be ex-MP.🎉

None of those concerned actually carry the shame gene. It's either absent at birth, or it's trained out of them at Eton.

@@jackywhite880 'ethics/morals are for the poors'

Absolutely

Ashamed ? They should be jailed for life. Yes Hislop is correct as always they robbed these people.

@@noramartin96 absolutely

When Hislop goes, the British Establishment will collectively breathe a sigh of unspeakable relief, not only because they'll no-longer have to worry about him finding out about the mass-graveyards in their closets, but also because there's no upcoming journalist of similar calibre or integrity for him to hand the torch over to. The world will suffer a considerable loss, come that day.

Stephen Fry is a likeable royal lacky.

Quite right. Hislop is the Christopher Hitchens of the 21st century. It seems the universe is duty-bound to provide at least one foil to the establishment line in every age, Hislop is ours. An absolute giant.

@@chrisburn7178 Hitchen was a right wing reactionary drunk. A fatter Russell Brand. His pro waterboarding derp was typical. Just because he was an atheist excuses nothing.

He cuts right to the core of issues if you're a centre left Liberal.

Didn't like her smirking...

To be honest, I was smirking too at Ians demolition of the puffed up popinjay that is Jake Berry

Labour were also to blame but Hislop is a Blair man

She is not on the same level.

Never forget that Hislop is a Blair man and that the Blair government kicked all this off. Easy to cry, Tories at fault when they have been left holding the parcel when the music stopped.

Do you understand this is a problem created by Labour? 😂😂

@@boswellwhanau And the Tories have had no time to fix the problem? They ignored it.

​. Do you understand entirely perpetuated by tories

​Erm, no it wasn't, it was the post office paving the way for privatisation and all that lovely money. The whole debacle was perpetuated with full tory backing.

@@boswellwhanau The Labour government gave Fujitsu the contract, but you can hardly blame Labour for the system's flaws. There should be a full inquiry though.

Seconded 👍

Agree.. Tony Blair is one.

​@@althomas3168Boris Johnson too.

​@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 Johnson for treason...yes.

@@beniteztheconman Messi is still the 🐐

@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 nowhere near the top 20

They have done the same with the tainted blood scandal,The fall out from COVID,And right at the moment the Tories shady dealings with the new Teeside Freeport.

Was he not just attempting his job as devil's arbitrator?

I stopped buying the Private Eye when they called anyone who disagreed with a lot of what was happening during the pandemic as a loony conspiracy theorist... Thats literally ANYONE who veered slightly off the narrative.

and they were right. @@mikethebloodthirsty

@@mikethebloodthirsty Private Eye has been proved right. All the anti-vaxxers and anti-lockdown people were loony conspiracy theorists. If Private Eye says something is BS then it very probably is BS

@@mikethebloodthirsty. So you stopped buying Private Eye when their assessment of the Covid situation differed from yours? About the same time you fell hook, line and sinker for the avalanche of loony conspiracy theories that appeared, then?

@@mikethebloodthirsty Have you possibly considered that maybe you were the one in the wrong?

Understandably too! In fact, is it even possible to talk to a Tory anymore without finding yourself in anger & despair?

True, but there's still a smile on his face. A smiling assassin.

He’s passionate when he gets his teeth into something not angry👍

All leftists are permanently angry people

That's because his magazine (Private Eye) has been following this issue for over 10 years now and are far more clued up about what went wrong than some two-bit nobody who simply sits in a tv studio and repeatedly reads from the script.

She’s just trying to avoid having to hand back the money. That’s what she really cares about.

@@borismuller86 yep, apologies and bits of metal mean nothing of any actual value to the victims. Sadly, some of the victims are no longer with us because the stress killed them.

Who cares about the gong? She can keep it for all its worth. The honours system is utterly discredited. The Tory politician on the couch has a knighthood for God's sake. A flipping knighthood!

I don't believe for a second that she has actually handed it back. I reckon she's sitting on it and hoping the fuss will go away, and the media will rally around her claiming she's being bullied, simply because she SAYS she's handed it back, like that's somehow enough to make good.

Wonder what the other inmates will make of that....

I far prefer paying my subscription than my license fee 😉

I think Private Eye should be in the same section as the daily newspapers. I do sometimes move it there when I get the chance.

Face is more like a pug

Regardless, I'll settle for his intellect rather than yours treacle😚 @@jeffsimon9594

​@@jeffsimon9594All right wingers are permanently angry little people

Berry smirks and giggles because he knows full well what we all know. That he and the rest of his Tory criminals will - as always in a UK that's now little better than a banana republic - simply walk away scot free. My late father used to say, "What do you call a man who steals an apple? A thief! What do you call a man who steals 10 million pounds? You call him sir!"

He's not always right, but in this case 100%

He was right about how Vote Leave broke electoral law, and therefore stole the referendum. But that was to be expected, Brexiters are just a bunch of racist fraudulent thugs

@@jonhelmer8591 do you fancy giving a couple of examples where he isn't?

​@bifferspice not sure about Hislop specifically, but Private Eye was very wrong on Andrew Wakefield and the MMR vaccine bullshit he shamelessly peddled for years.

A Completely Uncaring Narcissistic Tory, if you will. 🤔

He was a talisman for Northern redwall seats.Absolutely useless for the revival of the North but headbutts like 30p Lee Anderson does in the cause of big capitalism and social division. Sad that men like him get elected and then knighted.

The medals are given to help as a jail time buffer

After making that bloody idiot Botham a Lord, anything is possible.

​@@fsp- unelected euro bureaucrats in Brussels stopping our Great British politicians from giving Honours to their chums.

Exactly. Postmasters and mistresses spat at, abused and racially abused and labelled criminals. And their families. With governor ,post office and Fujitsu knowing they are innocent. Basically government and post office are sitting on their hands because they still want to blame some post masters because they don't want to take 100% of the blame and quirk out of it.

Correct

Be proud, you lot walked away..

And persistent! He hung on in there with this coverage when many wouldn’t have.

No.

I think you have a fair bit of patriotic nostalgia going on there. As a member of a different nation, I can assure you those are characteristics that apply to certain greats of the past regardless of where they were from; as a Czech, I'm thinking Karel Čapek. 🙂

Now the traits that mark the English out are an ignorance only exceeded by their apathy.

People in power, politicians, companies etc have been corrupt from the day the existed, don't think "back in my day" was any better, they just got off with more shit

Same thing with the banking crisis... All the main players went on to err... Carry on being main players. I think two got any kind of punishment

When hell freezes over is a good estimate.

Yeah Peston was completely useless and utterly embarrassed himself. What was he trying to do there?

We must have been watching different clips. Funny how our Political leanings can influence what we actually see and hear isn't it.

@@ceeabee Look, if I didn't know the background, I'd think Hislop incredibly rude and aggressive towards a fellow guest. But I do know the background, and so does Peston, and if he wasn't ready for the righteous indignation of Ian (and right he is), then I don't know what he was doing. It's also interesting you somehow relate this to politics.Ian Hislop doesn't play politics; he has been invested in this dossier for 15 years and has continuously fought for the victims in the story. He doesn't detest Berry for being a Tory, he detests him for being useless and for downplaying the effect this had and still has on people. The guilty have to be brought to trial, and that includes the politicians that enabled it while knowing better.

Peston is a twerp. on a good salary

@@ceeabeeIs there a particular political party that is at odds with Ian Hislop’s opinion on this whole Post Office affair?

And what do you think Labour is. Remember a woman has a penis.

Don't forget that this all happened under a Blaire Labour government, with Postmasters prosecuted long before Cameron came to power.

@@kevinsyd2012 Blairite = Tory lite

No it didn't, the prosecutions were being brought throughout the Coalition's term of office and for years afterwards, and it was the Tories that gave that bloody woman a CBE and continue Fujitsu's contract spending millions of £s of taxpayer's money. Wind your Tory neck in ! @@kevinsyd2012

​@@kevinsyd201213 years of Tory rule and they kept the injustice going which makes them worse.

Yes he was letting him him have have it wasn't wasn't he?🤣

Post offices do deal in cash.... but I agree it would not have been difficult!

It’s not difficult to dispose of cash in small amounts (by which I mean up to tens of thousands). Many genuine cash thefts from companies are used for gambling for which there is no trace; you take the cash into the bookies and it’s gone! Even using cash to cover half your grocery shopping and clothing could make many thousands of £s ‘disappear’ over the course of a year. However, the onus should have been on the PO to prove that thefts actually occurred and, as we now know, they didn’t even have that basic evidence; they coerced the innocent into pleading guilty of fraud for fear of being found guilty of the much more serious offence of theft. This appears to have been widespread practice by PO investigators. Utterly despicable.

⁠@@InnesbI agree with your points. I think some of the issue was that it was many thousands in a month. I know working on investigations, I would have followed the money to see where are the ill gotten gains. Nobody there benefited so it staggered me when I heard this story. No credible investigator would have done that, they would have actually investigated regardless where the outcome led to. They also would have needed to gather significant and credible evidence to support a decision. They just seem to say “that’s what you owe, pay up.” My understanding is that is pretty much what happened and wasn’t even dramatised. That isn’t investigating. Seeing these “investigators” just acting like some crooked bailiffs is just shocking and I hope that PO has investigatory function taken from them. They shouldn’t have had it in the first place.

What about Paxman or Andrew Neil?

But who'se holding him to account? Private Eye? 😂

The problem is that leaders have to do politics, that's their job. Politics is, boiled down to the simplest idea, the process of herding cats in the House of Commons. It's why Rishi is seen as weak, because he's so bad at it. It takes a special kind of person to have the patience to do that day-in day-out, which is why people like Hislop don't want that job. It's not what they enjoy.

@@fang_xianfu And he's got no skill in it.

Carping from the sidelines is easy.

And a million signature petition that they could not ignore

I suspect he'd not accept

​@@1968spikeyI'd hope Mr Hislop would say, "Thank you, but no thanks"

@@MartinandFreddie they have ignored numerous hitting that. its just a way for them to stick it to the libs at the moment

Then he'd be part of the establishment. 😂😂😂 just like sir Ed.sir kier and sir Cameron.

Sir Ed Davy was one of them.

The post office’s primary tactic was to run up costs, hoping the postmasters would run out of money … ofc the post office used our money to do it.

Wow. Thats astonishing.

They did it on a no win no fee basis. They took all the risk.

@VesiustheBoneCruncher: don't forget that this all happened under a Blaire Labour government, with Postmasters convicted long before Cameron came to power.

​@@kevinsyd2012 it did not all happen under the Blair government. Lots did, but the contract was signed under John Major and prosecutions continued under Cameron. The majority of the cover-up, the actual lying under oath and fraud, happened in the last 15 years.

​​@kevinsyd2012 and what have the tories done about it over the past 14 years, besides give one of the culprits an honour? Very on brand. Committed fraud? Be a Tory Lord.

You can't turn around when all the fucking wheels fell off years ago, they've just a passenger in the crash waiting for the impact. Big ups Ian Hislop

@ianhouston4424: He wouldn’t accept a peerage. Yet another reason why Ian’s a good thing.

there's no way ian would accept a peerage, it would ruin his good reputation.

Why would anyone with integrity want a peerage? In fact peerage and integrity is a contradiction. 😁😁

He does seem to be proud of being “the most sued man in Britain” … Parliamentary privilege would ruin the fun

​@nickwyatt9498 I think that's part of the problem with society. The people who would be able to remain trustworthy whilst holding power are usually those uninterested in having it. Whilst I agree with the sentiment of not wanting to roll in the filth with the corrupt mps, someone has to go in there and clean it up at some point or it will never change. A vicious cycle that shows no sign of stopping soon.

I don't think a single person here would disagree with you

The PO 'investigators' - read: paid thugs - were handed pre-formed conclusions by their bosses and told to come to those conclusions, irrespective of evidence to the contrary, by any means necessary. They were told to secure convictions by any means necessary. The Horizon system was never to be found at-fault in any way. Today, now, those 'investigators' only shield is the Nuremberg Defence of "I Was Only Following Orders", which has never flown and never will. Those 'investigators' didn't even write their own statements of evidence for court proceedings: they were HANDED their statements, pre-prepared by lawyers representing the Post Office, told to sign them and then swear by them in court - which is perjury. Now they're actively incriminating themselves by being forced to admit to that. That's how sordid this whole mess is.

It’s been covered for years by Private Eye - shame bigger media didn’t grasp what a big and important issue it was

It just goes to show how our MSM political shows and news have been staffed for decades by inept people from top to bottom.

The media will have known but they just don't care. The biggest media outlets are right-wing so wouldn't want to upset big business nevermind the sitting conservative government. And the last bastion of big media left-wing investigative journalism died when Alan Rusbridger stepped down at the guardian and they were turned into a left-wing version of the daily heil. @@emmabrooker166

Too right, the totally confirms they really don't give a hoot about the people that make this country work. Key worker when they need us. . Criminal if if it saves there faves

The public has been nullified with crap media output. The folks at the top like it that way.

Pretty sure he would turn it down, even if it was offered to him, which it wouldn’t, as he upsets too many apple carts.

Who would want to be knighted to be alongside the likes of Michelle Mone, Jacob Reese Mogg and Michael Fabricant? The whole thing has been cataclysmically debased by the Tories. It is beyond laughable, they just troll the common man with these joke awards. They’ve fucked the country beyond any possible parody, award each other for doing it and expect us all to call them Sir and Dame for the pleasure of doubling our mortgages, stealing our taxes and turning our nation into a laughing stock with zero public services fit for purpose. They have ruined us and yet you will still vote for them as they laugh at you from their villa in the Swiss Alps.

​@@danbillingare you serious? You don't work for the bbc for 35 years if you are not part of the establishment

Legend? What has he ever done for public service? He ridiculous MP’s and celebs . What on earth has he done to deserve a knighthood? Private eye was brilliant against the post office, why doesn’t he target and go after the outlets who rejected this. Why doesn’t he fight against the sex gangs up north?!

Don't worry, every country has similar awards for service with different names, be they a monarchy or not. Just ours are linked to history and the monarchy. Still awards of public recognition.

It's not just the post office doing it's own prosecution. Various government departments are now allowed to prosecute. They should all be stopped and investigated for unsafe convictions, not just the post office.

There are quite a number of organisations who do their own prosecutions. Inland revenue, health and safety executive, environment agency and others. More than one would think.

Blindly supported a bin bag full of custard

Friend of boris, that’s it.

What lefty peston?

Embarrassed at the anger live on air. Peston is ok I think

Just a shame it didn't go on longer...

I was thinking exactly the same thing 👍

The Peston show could be exponentially improved if they removed Peston from it. He adds nothing to the debate, indeed he interrupts when people are making valid points. What is the point of Peston? Other than to shut down criticism of the status quo.

He'd make a good defence lawyer.

​@@CB-xr1egHe's certainly employed enough 😂. A great man