Extremely good piece about Mohammed Al Fayed. Thank you for supporting those who revealed his true nature for so long. And thank you for acknowledging the bravery of the witnesses who came forward to discuss what he did to them. A horrible man who, like so may, evaded justice and retribution in his lifetime.
A recurring theme l note - if more people read the Eye they'd likely be far less surprised by all sorts of stories which other "news" reporters eventually notice. 🤔
I may buy the Boris tome when a copy appears in the local Oxfam. Winter’s coming near and my home is heated by a wood fire, paper to get it going is always welcome.
@@susanb4816 I’m a small scale trad sheep farmer who lives in a small stone cottage well out in the sticks down West. I make not a lot of money because it’s a small farm that gets very little subsidy and lamb/mutton doesn’t sell for much since Boris, Forage and their merry men shoved Brexit down our throats, losing us the lucrative European marketplaces, then did stupid deals on meat imports which all but killed the already poor home market. The electricity supply can be unreliable when storms come through, kerosene and LPG costs money. Coppiced wood is a reliable fuel that takes labour but is otherwise effectively free, apart from about 15 gallons of petrol and £15 a year to keep the chainsaw going. I’m toasty warm and the wood’s a completely renewable resource. Is that silly? Not from where I’m standing.
@@robm.4512 ask someone with asthma. Or those flooded out due to freak storms… i could go on and on. We have the technology to heat without harm, but that takes thought, which most people prefer to reject over cheap, easy solutions
@@robm.4512townies are often surprised how off the grid us country bumpkins are. I'm 12 miles from the county city and the whole valley has no mains gas, no mains water or sewers and unreliable electric supply. In fact, it has been so unreliable in 2024, I am heading into winter at £0 electric costs due to 6 payments of £90 for my power being cut for longer than 12 hours. I'm regretting not buying a forest (or land to plant a harvest) instead of flash cars in my youth to heat my house and have as much hot water as anybody could ever need. Fair winds Rob
@@susanb4816 it exists, but it isn't anywhere near free (or without environmental costs). Using the wood stove that's already in the house versus getting something set up that will provide reliable energy isn't child's play. Are you volunteering to go to their house with all necessary supplies and get everything sorted out? Because you aren't going to snarkily shame someone into doing it. I plan on building a hydroelectric generator when I do my house. But that takes a chunk of work and the right bit of land to put my house that works for it. Because it's not easy, and doing it takes knowledge, skill, and money.
Ah Mohammed, a friends wife sank her life savings into a kitchen and staff to produce west african ready meals, managed to get a pitch in Harrods, Mr fayed did his walk through the morning we set up and were pleased when he stopped to converse with us. "Fug off my store" he told us, and that was that
There were definitely ex-Harrods staff warning young women not to apply for jobs there. Similar to the 'not safe in taxis' advice forewarning other women about predatory men.
You phillistines! The original "jet fuelled Concorde" didn't blow up so much as get blown up having hit a foreign object on a French runway. Even the most intelligent journalist can trip over a small object.
Love the Eye podcasts... living in the USA it's one of the best ways of keeping tabs on how things are doing and what's going on back home and to be frank, crazy as the US is, seems a lot of the things going on back home aren't too rosy so I'm going to be staying here......
Frustrated of Warsaw here. I have been reading Private Eye from 1976 to 1997, never missing an issue. Moving abroad, there's ONE THING I miss about the UK and that's the laughs I'd get from Private Eye. But given the time lag between a new issue coming out and Polish post delivering it to me, there's no point of me taking out a sub. Jokes that are two or three weeks old are stale. [I subscribe to The Economist, print and digital. No great problem in receiving two or three in one go whenever the postman can be bothered to call, because I have full online access. ] Here's my solution: how about uploading a .pdf of the Eye and offering a digital-only sub? I'd happily pay. There are many apps that give online access to print material.
I worked in publishing for 20 years. Setting up the print pdfs online is relatively easy. Can edit them at will. Add or remove adverts etc. Setting up a pay wall is harder but possible. Not sure Ian H is keen though.
i had no idea ian hisplop was on here, should have the hosts on the thumbnail. i thought this was some student channel i had no idea who you guys were. you got a new sub!
A Cabdriver speaks: Ere, I 'ad that Ian Hislop in my cab the other day, very clever man. Makes jokes about ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE, know what I mean? Stay lucky*! (*if you can!)
print media. i don’t regret the loss of newspapers, (most of the ones that i see aren’t worth the price you are asked to pay) so much as i regret the loss of local reporting. there is so much that goes on in the back corridors and the proverbial (now mercifully gone) smoke-filled rooms that flies under the radar, because there is *no money to be made* by reporting on it. ie. you can’t get enough ads to pay the people trained to do that anymore. it has fallen to the online community to perform that task, and those who indulge their snoopiness don't have that training, nor the clout, to put the fear into the perpetrators of the backroom deals, that a dogged reporter exposing those machinations to the broad public, used to wield. “they’ll go online…it’ll be fine” (met by a tentative titter…and silence) power and money. the latter has always been able to buy the former, and a fast track ticket to the “upper crust”. which doesn’t like to admit that it has a lot of very nasty rotting corpses populating its echelons. droit de seigneur, indeed. (another thing that the crust denies exists, but is practised *by all* within it) yay capitalism
He no longer needs that sort of money. "Cripes, the plebs at the Bojo Broadcasting Corporation can only offer one peanuts these days. I should have put the licence fee up when I could."
Extremely good piece about Mohammed Al Fayed. Thank you for supporting those who revealed his true nature for so long. And thank you for acknowledging the bravery of the witnesses who came forward to discuss what he did to them. A horrible man who, like so may, evaded justice and retribution in his lifetime.
He sounds remarkably similar to Vince McMahon judging by the Netflix doc I've recently finished.
another case of a rich powerful guy abusing his position, why are we not surprised. I am only sorry we didnt get him while he was alive. Ditto Savile.
A recurring theme l note - if more people read the Eye they'd likely be far less surprised by all sorts of stories which other "news" reporters eventually notice.
🤔
I may buy the Boris tome when a copy appears in the local Oxfam.
Winter’s coming near and my home is heated by a wood fire, paper to get it going is always welcome.
Heated by wood? In 2024? Wow
@@susanb4816 I’m a small scale trad sheep farmer who lives in a small stone cottage well out in the sticks down West.
I make not a lot of money because it’s a small farm that gets very little subsidy and lamb/mutton doesn’t sell for much since Boris, Forage and their merry men shoved Brexit down our throats, losing us the lucrative European marketplaces, then did stupid deals on meat imports which all but killed the already poor home market.
The electricity supply can be unreliable when storms come through, kerosene and LPG costs money.
Coppiced wood is a reliable fuel that takes labour but is otherwise effectively free, apart from about 15 gallons of petrol and £15 a year to keep the chainsaw going.
I’m toasty warm and the wood’s a completely renewable resource.
Is that silly? Not from where I’m standing.
@@robm.4512 ask someone with asthma. Or those flooded out due to freak storms… i could go on and on. We have the technology to heat without harm, but that takes thought, which most people prefer to reject over cheap, easy solutions
@@robm.4512townies are often surprised how off the grid us country bumpkins are. I'm 12 miles from the county city and the whole valley has no mains gas, no mains water or sewers and unreliable electric supply. In fact, it has been so unreliable in 2024, I am heading into winter at £0 electric costs due to 6 payments of £90 for my power being cut for longer than 12 hours. I'm regretting not buying a forest (or land to plant a harvest) instead of flash cars in my youth to heat my house and have as much hot water as anybody could ever need. Fair winds Rob
@@susanb4816 it exists, but it isn't anywhere near free (or without environmental costs). Using the wood stove that's already in the house versus getting something set up that will provide reliable energy isn't child's play. Are you volunteering to go to their house with all necessary supplies and get everything sorted out? Because you aren't going to snarkily shame someone into doing it.
I plan on building a hydroelectric generator when I do my house. But that takes a chunk of work and the right bit of land to put my house that works for it. Because it's not easy, and doing it takes knowledge, skill, and money.
Ah Mohammed, a friends wife sank her life savings into a kitchen and staff to produce west african ready meals, managed to get a pitch in Harrods, Mr fayed did his walk through the morning we set up and were pleased when he stopped to converse with us. "Fug off my store" he told us, and that was that
There were definitely ex-Harrods staff warning young women not to apply for jobs there. Similar to the 'not safe in taxis' advice forewarning other women about predatory men.
You phillistines! The original "jet fuelled Concorde" didn't blow up so much as get blown up having hit a foreign object on a French runway. Even the most intelligent journalist can trip over a small object.
Hope ian is ok
Seconded
No one was hurt, thankfully.
He’s quieter in this episode. I wonder if this was recorded after the taxi incident.
It was just a mechanical failure - the window just shattered, it wasn't a shooting incident.
Put a ring fence around the Tory Conference & call it a Lunatic Asylum.
Filled with Napoleons and little Hitlers...
Glad Hislop is ok after the Al Fayed’s ghosts hit squad.
That hit was the Fuggin' Duke of Edinburgh ...
THank you
Love the Eye podcasts... living in the USA it's one of the best ways of keeping tabs on how things are doing and what's going on back home and to be frank, crazy as the US is, seems a lot of the things going on back home aren't too rosy so I'm going to be staying here......
I most certainly won't be buying BoJos loo roll.
You never know , the way the economy is rolling, it might be cheaper and you get the bonus of using BoJo's words to wipe yer bum 😁
ni moi non plus
Frustrated of Warsaw here. I have been reading Private Eye from 1976 to 1997, never missing an issue. Moving abroad, there's ONE THING I miss about the UK and that's the laughs I'd get from Private Eye. But given the time lag between a new issue coming out and Polish post delivering it to me, there's no point of me taking out a sub. Jokes that are two or three weeks old are stale. [I subscribe to The Economist, print and digital. No great problem in receiving two or three in one go whenever the postman can be bothered to call, because I have full online access. ] Here's my solution: how about uploading a .pdf of the Eye and offering a digital-only sub? I'd happily pay. There are many apps that give online access to print material.
I still enjoy my copies even though there's a delay. So do my friends who get my copies afterwards.
@@wendysimpson6395 My record is five weeks. Three-quarters of Liz Truss's time at No. 10.
@@MichaelDembinski 😆
I worked in publishing for 20 years. Setting up the print pdfs online is relatively easy. Can edit them at will. Add or remove adverts etc. Setting up a pay wall is harder but possible. Not sure Ian H is keen though.
24:26 Helen makes a great point about the emergence of substacks
A more depressing lineup of faces I have never seen.
The cringe was unbearable!
i had no idea ian hisplop was on here, should have the hosts on the thumbnail. i thought this was some student channel i had no idea who you guys were. you got a new sub!
The best use of the Standard is lining the bottom of the sheds at the Kentish Town petting zoo
The only thing he's sorry about was getting caught out. That the BBC is giving him prime time publicity sickens me.
A Cabdriver speaks: Ere, I 'ad that Ian Hislop in my cab the other day, very clever man. Makes jokes about ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE, know what I mean? Stay lucky*! (*if you can!)
But will there be a Harry Enfield narrated, in-character of course, audiobook of Boris's memoirs
think it should be Culshaw or Lucas plus i hope some bookshop employee has a sense of humour and puts the book in the fiction section
print media.
i don’t regret the loss of newspapers,
(most of the ones that i see aren’t worth the price you are asked to pay)
so much as i regret the loss of local reporting.
there is so much that goes on in the back corridors and the proverbial
(now mercifully gone) smoke-filled rooms that flies under the radar,
because there is *no money to be made* by reporting on it.
ie. you can’t get enough ads to pay the people trained to do that anymore.
it has fallen to the online community to perform that task,
and those who indulge their snoopiness don't have that training,
nor the clout, to put the fear into the perpetrators of the backroom deals,
that a dogged reporter exposing those machinations to the broad public,
used to wield.
“they’ll go online…it’ll be fine” (met by a tentative titter…and silence)
power and money.
the latter has always been able to buy the former,
and a fast track ticket to the “upper crust”.
which doesn’t like to admit that it has a lot of very nasty rotting corpses
populating its echelons.
droit de seigneur, indeed.
(another thing that the crust denies exists, but is practised *by all* within it)
yay capitalism
Tom Tote-N-Tat
Bad Enoch scares me.
Rivers of Blood.
Fayed
...was a very bad man.
@@SuezWSuezW ...was a very fuggin' bad man.
Bring BoJo back in time for this weeks HIGNFY.
He no longer needs that sort of money. "Cripes, the plebs at the Bojo Broadcasting Corporation can only offer one peanuts these days. I should have put the licence fee up when I could."