Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "Ian Hislop reviews the chaos of 2024" video.

  1. The thing about Hislop (and his long time panel show colleague, Paul Merton) is that he is one of the vanishingly rare few people in the public domain who hasn’t turned out to be a bastard, or allowed his advantages of being popular in the public eye to corrupt him at all. I’ve been an admirer of Hislop’s since the 1980’s, reading his rag since the days when Richard Ingrams ran the show and Ian Hislop, “stuck to him like a limpet,” as Peter Cook put it. And I’ve seen every episode of Have I Got News For You since its inception. When he does a documentary series, or writes for a TV show, he always uses that opportunity as a way to serve the public good; either by giving us insights into current affairs and laughing at them, or showing us lesser known aspects of history that have come to define us, or resulted in the institutions we have today. One of the very few people I know of worthy of our, “admiration,” and perhaps, “National Treasure,” status.
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  2. Yeah, he really ought to write some of these zingers down.
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  3.  @frflinstone  : I know what you mean, but Hislop does contribute to public life through all of his endeavours, which is unusual by any standard. Though, merely being incorruptible is an unusual thing these days and you’re right to point out what that says about who we are becoming . . . who we already are.
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