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.
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.
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.
Ian Hislop has been on top form for DECADES! Private eye broke this story years ago when no else cared. He is a one man band who is always questioning power structures in society (monarchy, government, judges, celebrities, religions) God bless him! 🖤 🇬🇧
@@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.
@@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
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
Ian Hislop is 100% right. Gets my vote. “Classic corporate nonsense” on Fujitsu’s part. It’s time for truth, justice and humanity. Enough of this pernicious and fraudulent activity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone always says David Attenborough, Stephen fry etc. are British icons who will be missed dearly. But for me, it's Ian Hislop. He's does so much for British politics & cuts right to the cores of issues in a funny, digestible way. I've watched him on hignfy since I was a child. When he goes, British politics punditry will not be the same. A true British icon
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.
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.
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@@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.
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.
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.
As a non-brit who never stepped foot on your island, I'm so happy for you to have Ian. He's gold and should serve as an example for any and all journalists in the world, not just in the world of politics. We need more Ians.
Oh I love Ian. He's so passionate and isn't afraid to show it. Not intimidated by anyone! Really says it how it is. I wish there were more people holding this corrupt Tory government to account!
Ian is the world’s most silk gloved brawler. I love that he rants for two minutes then says ‘I’m gonna rant now’. One of my greatest heroes and a great reminder that ‘they’re’ not ‘all the same’ whenever someone talks about‘mainstream media’.
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.
You see Ian argue and put his point across very well often BUT you don't ever really see him angry. In this clip i get the felling there is real anger there!!
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.
As someone slightly involved in this (family member was in a post office until 2004ish), I'm so thankful for people like Ian Hislop and their consistant involvement in this case. Personally I don't blame Ed Davey compared to all the other people who lied through their teeth and are trying to pin the blame on one single person. They *knew* the system didn't work and yet rolled it out anyway. World needs more people like Ian Hislop especially when he's so animated because he is utterly correct in every single way.
Hislop's genuine almost unfettered apoplexy is wonderful to behold. You just wish they didn't have a time limit; I'd listen to him take the issue apart for hours. A giant of our time.
As a Private Eye subscriber for 38 years I expect nothing less from Ian. And that it was "Sir" Jake on the receiving end was particularly gratifying, a man holding one of the least deserved Knighthoods in a party crammed full of them, awarded simply for being a chum of Boris Johnson.
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.
@@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?
I have no idea why Jake Berry is laughing and giggling through this. Hislop laid out the feckless filth we can all see and he thinks it’s worth a chortle.
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!"
Props to all at Computer Weekly and Private Eye for trying to drag the UK out of the mess it's in, one fight against ignorance and nonsense at a time. The measure of heroism is not in the success but the audacity to step up; both stepped up and both deserved their success. Long may it continue.
Just because the woman "hands back her CBE" does NOT remove her from that honour until it is 'quashed' by the Government AND withdrawn by the King! The criminal is STILL a CBE.
@@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.
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. 🙂
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
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
@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.
The whole of the sorry story shows how low the UK has fallen... David Cameron should leave all public life just over the award of the honour... Ian Hislop has shown more decency than the whole Conservative Party and the rest of the Establishment put together. His verdict is decent and should be listened to, as well as acted upon.
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.
People dismiss Private Eye as "Just a funny paper," but it's editorials contain some of the best, honest, old fashioned investigative journslism in the British press.
Thank you for posting this. I really wanted to see Hislop's full interview. He doesn't let go very often but when he does it's always legitimate and superb.
Its about time Ian stopped Private Eye and started running for election. We had one of his joke guests running the country, now lets have him. Id vote for him in a heartbeat and i cant be alone.
Iain Hislop you speak for all of us who are neither ignoring the facts nor corrupt in our own actions. You are as many have said a National Treasure. Thank you.
When will we see CEOs held accountable they leave a company with a golden handshake even though they've fucked up big style... Massive bonuses to shareholders demoralised workforce then handed another another CEO position to do it all again it beggars belief... My heart goes out to all of the people and their families who have been affected by this disgusting miscarriage of justice 😢
Ian Hislop has my ultimate respect - despite the private education, leading to Oxford furtherance and connections which I've no doubt, in part (alongside his intelligence, of course) culminated in Private Eye editorship at a comparatively young age, he has spent his life and intellect in a truly worthy and commendable way - exposing hypocrisy and bullshit and never being cowed by those so many with his background end up becoming. Legend and titan.
Adam Crozier has swerved his responsibility. He was at the top of the Post Office when crucial decisions were made. He went on to become head of ITV and subsequently BT. Weird how his mates at ITV helped him not to be held accountable in the drama that aired.
@@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.
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.
Ian Hislop is amazing. He’s not scared of any of them. He says what he means and means what he says. I’m astonished as to why Peston didn’t dedicate his entire programme to this subject. This debate was really riveting and it was over before it got going.
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
over the last 30 years minimum, (since I've been reading it), Private Eye has been giving the uk the most honest and truthful journalism! We should boycott all other British papers!
The thing that struck me was how it could so easily be proven that the money wasn't stolen as it would never have appeared in their bank account or even been spent!
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.
Well said Ian Hislop. Hold those smirking MP's to account. They, the system and the establishment all stink and are rotten to the core. I hope that having an advocate for those Post Masters & Mistresses such as Ian will advance the case & conclude with full and speedy redress.
Fujitsu MUST pay every postmaster wrongly accused/convicted that million Ian suggested and the losses incurred to the taxpayer. A shocking abuse of corporate power
We absolutely neeeeeeeeeed a no nonsense leader like Ian. The media needs to take serious notes from him too. Hes the only one i can rhink of thats seriously holding politicians to account
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.
The difference between someone who's looked at this for ten minutes vs someone who has looked at it for over ten years. Men against boys stuff from Hislop.
The Tories hate Ian Hislop because he is so thorougher in all of his investigations and nobody can hold a candle to him. I wish we had more like Ian scrutinising what the shower in government get up to and to think That creep Jake Berry tory MP for Darwen and Rossendale who was up Boris Johnsons arse throughout the time Johnson was prime minister and Boris Johnson gives him a totally unworthy knighthood for his loyalty to a man who had to resign. What an accolade of achievement for Jake Berry.
Good to see Hislop making himself heard. Private Eye has reported on this disgusting miscarriage/cover up for many years. The root of this (and many others similar) is that successive Gov'ts have had to rely on on quick fixes by outsourcing to Corporations instead of investing in controlled, fit for purpose bodies. The outsourced Corps have the Gov't by the short n curlies when the Contract is drawn up. They take the piss. Big time. Fujitsu suing the NHS for £700 MILLION. FFS. And still getting £BILLIONS worth of tax-payer funded contracts.
Ian Hislop proving again what a legend he is! I would say he should be knighted if I wasn’t against the monarchy and everything that accompanies it including that ridiculous awards system! 😂
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.
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.
I think that may be the angriest I’ve seen Hislop and good on him, absolutely justified. Before we get even near policy, we’ve got to have more competent and honest government. Excoriation and humiliation are the only things that seem to hold this mob up for a second, so those who can do it publicly, must. Although I’m glad something is happening for the postmasters, this feels like an incredibly cynical PR job by a government desperate to turn opinion polls around.
@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.
Ian Hislop should be given a peerage. That way he could use ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ to highlight serious issues without fear of legal action. Since he’s continuously demonstrated his integrity over many years, I feel we could be confident he would not abuse the position- unlike many others.
@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.
The best bit of television I see in my life absolutely brilliant thank you Ian Hislop that's the people want more honesty like that thank you once again.
One of the best Peston shows ever! Having someone like Ian Hislop on, telling it like it is, is fantastic. He should have been allowed to speak for longer, everything he said is true. Fujitsu must be made to pay, and so should the previous bosses at Post Office Ltd, who took such large bonuses at the expense of the misery and ruin of sub-postmasters!
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.
You failed to mention the £46,000,000 taken by the cartel of lawyers representing the victims leaving the postmasters and mistresses £20,000 each? A bloody disgrace. Has anyone questioned even in the expensive world of litigation how £46,000,000 can be justified.
I'm glad all of these people can find humour in this horror show, when people went to prison and even committed sui*. Even now, there is a refusal to own up and take responsibility. The people responsible for this utter clusterfk need to be behind bars.
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
Can't watch this often enough! Ian Hislop still has the fire in his belly that makes him one of our greatest-ever campaigning journalists - and he's funny too. Jake Berry never stood a chance (not that there's any reason to cry over that!).
The Post Office should have the right to directly prosecute and investigate taken away - they were judge, jury and executioner and totally biased and even paid bonuses to the psychopathic investigators for chasing down innocent people and ignoring the errors in the Horizon system.
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.
i had to shout "SHUT UP !" at my computer as soon as peston jumped in to quiet Mr Hislop and thereby help defend the criminal filth from the lambasting they so richly deserve to receive...on their way to prison.
Sad that democratically elected politicians in Britain seem to have as much respect for the truth as Trump and Putin. Thanks Ian from the bottom of a deeply cynical person please keep it up.
Let me think for a second. Trump or the Biden crime family. Trump regenerates the economy of the U.S.A. and Biden destroys it for no other reason than to maliciously reverse all of the acts brought in by Trump. What untruths you are referring to?
Hislop is perfectly right. Fujitsu is a multi billion pound company. They should be made to stump up some money to compensate these people, some of whom have lost EVERYTHING. Homes, reputations, friends (not really friends were they then?) livelihoods, relationships and pensions. £1m per sub postmaster is the very least they should be offering. For 25 years this has been dragging on and only now, following the ITV drama, is the government getting its arse into gear. Those in control of the Post Office who knew that the Horizon systems was flawed and yet still carried on with prosecutions should be hauled before the courts and made to pay both financially and emotionally for their role in this massive scandal. To tell each victim that they were the only one and no one else was having trouble was disgraceful. A Helpline that was anything but. The Post Office STOLE £1000s from these people - they deserve that money returned and SUBSTANTIAL compensation. To hell with the cost to the government/taxpayer - JUSTICE MUST BE DONE - AND SEEN TO BE DONE.
17 Post Office Ministers since 2000 and 16 Business Secretaries. These are complicated briefs that they are in charge of, so how the hell are they supposed to get fully 'tuned in' to their jobs given tenures are so short? This seems to be typical of the way governments carry out their policy and oversight responsibilities - short termist, short-sighted and a reshuffle every few months (it seems).
Listening to Ian Hislop always goes a long way to restoring my faith in human nature. Long may he continue!
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.
“You can’t just talk nonsense and not be interrupted.” Ian is a fearless champion. If only someone said that to Boris Johnson more often.
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...
Ian Hislop has been on top form for DECADES! Private eye broke this story years ago when no else cared. He is a one man band who is always questioning power structures in society (monarchy, government, judges, celebrities, religions) God bless him! 🖤 🇬🇧
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
Ian Hislop is quickly becoming a hero of our age. A man of principle and justice. I have so much respect for him.
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.
Ian Hislop is 100% right. Gets my vote. “Classic corporate nonsense” on Fujitsu’s part. It’s time for truth, justice and humanity. Enough of this pernicious and fraudulent activity.
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.
Ian Hislop is a national treasure. He's one of the few people willing to hold the corrupt to account.
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.
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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.
Hislop with all the fury of a fiery young radical, but with 40-odd years of experience in dealing with such fraudsters is positions of power - superb.
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It’s a wonderful combination
Well said.
Ian Hislop is an absolute giant of a man in this country. I am a grateful subscriber to Private Eye and I couldn't agree with Ian more.
When Ian's being funny he's very very good: when he's angry, he's even better.
100%👏👏👏
I've never seen him rage so hard. It's quite impressive actually
The world needs more Ian hislops. He can sense when a politician talks crap even before they’ve spoken a word. God bless Ian Hislop.
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 😂😂😂😂
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@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne Soon to be ex-MP.🎉
Everyone always says David Attenborough, Stephen fry etc. are British icons who will be missed dearly. But for me, it's Ian Hislop. He's does so much for British politics & cuts right to the cores of issues in a funny, digestible way. I've watched him on hignfy since I was a child. When he goes, British politics punditry will not be the same. A true British icon
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.
First time I've ever seen Jess Philips so quiet, she knew to just sit back and let Hislop go to town on the Conservatives
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.
Mr Berry tried to laugh his way through this and he just proved that he's just another Tory about to be out of a job. Well done Ian!
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.
Line of the century " You can't just keep talking nonsense and not be interrupted"!!!
I LOVE MR.HISLOP!!! ❤❤❤
Seconded 👍
As a non-brit who never stepped foot on your island, I'm so happy for you to have Ian. He's gold and should serve as an example for any and all journalists in the world, not just in the world of politics.
We need more Ians.
Oh I love Ian. He's so passionate and isn't afraid to show it. Not intimidated by anyone! Really says it how it is. I wish there were more people holding this corrupt Tory government to account!
Ian Hislop is 100% right, 100%!
The government, The Post Office and Fujitsu should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done.
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
Peston would have done better to shut up and listen to Hislop. But his grandstanding self-importance wouldn't let him do that. Shame.
Was he not just attempting his job as devil's arbitrator?
Ian is the world’s most silk gloved brawler. I love that he rants for two minutes then says ‘I’m gonna rant now’. One of my greatest heroes and a great reminder that ‘they’re’ not ‘all the same’ whenever someone talks about‘mainstream media’.
Ian Hislop is exceptional. True hero. Whenever I hear him speak I sit up and listen.
Ian, via Private Eye, has been chasing this story for nearly 20 years. No wonder you can hear the anger in his voice.
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.
You see Ian argue and put his point across very well often BUT you don't ever really see him angry. In this clip i get the felling there is real anger there!!
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.
As someone slightly involved in this (family member was in a post office until 2004ish), I'm so thankful for people like Ian Hislop and their consistant involvement in this case.
Personally I don't blame Ed Davey compared to all the other people who lied through their teeth and are trying to pin the blame on one single person. They *knew* the system didn't work and yet rolled it out anyway.
World needs more people like Ian Hislop especially when he's so animated because he is utterly correct in every single way.
Hislop's genuine almost unfettered apoplexy is wonderful to behold. You just wish they didn't have a time limit; I'd listen to him take the issue apart for hours. A giant of our time.
As a Private Eye subscriber for 38 years I expect nothing less from Ian. And that it was "Sir" Jake on the receiving end was particularly gratifying, a man holding one of the least deserved Knighthoods in a party crammed full of them, awarded simply for being a chum of Boris Johnson.
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.
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@@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?
Ian Hislop once again tells it like it is. Thank you to Private Eye for all their hard work over many years.
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.
I have no idea why Jake Berry is laughing and giggling through this. Hislop laid out the feckless filth we can all see and he thinks it’s worth a chortle.
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!"
Props to all at Computer Weekly and Private Eye for trying to drag the UK out of the mess it's in, one fight against ignorance and nonsense at a time. The measure of heroism is not in the success but the audacity to step up; both stepped up and both deserved their success. Long may it continue.
There are people who should be sitting in a jail cell and it's not the postmasters!!
Agree.. Tony Blair is one.
@@althomas3168Boris Johnson too.
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 Johnson for treason...yes.
@@beniteztheconman Messi is still the 🐐
@@colloquialsoliloquy6391 nowhere near the top 20
Just because the woman "hands back her CBE" does NOT remove her from that honour until it is 'quashed' by the Government AND withdrawn by the King! The criminal is STILL a CBE.
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....
Not very often you see Jess Phillips sitting back munching the popcorn - I think she enjoyed that.
Ian Hislop, how British people used to be , fair minded, humourous, rational and decent.
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
Ian is absolutely right as usual 🤷♂️
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.
Ian Hislop is like a terrier with a rat once he gets hold he just keeps shaking it, GREAT MAN.
Face is more like a pug
Regardless, I'll settle for his intellect rather than yours treacle😚
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@@jeffsimon9594All right wingers are permanently angry little people
The whole of the sorry story shows how low the UK has fallen... David Cameron should leave all public life just over the award of the honour... Ian Hislop has shown more decency than the whole Conservative Party and the rest of the Establishment put together. His verdict is decent and should be listened to, as well as acted upon.
I freaking love Ian Hislop. He is a towering intellect and absolutely unafraid to call a spade a spade.
Go for it Ian. Such a pleasure to see such passion. If only more people were so riled up.
"SIR" Jake Berry who has achieved exactly nothing as a tory MP, but still got a knighthood. Brexit Britain in a nutshell.
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.
People dismiss Private Eye as "Just a funny paper," but it's editorials contain some of the best, honest, old fashioned investigative journslism in the British press.
Thank you for posting this. I really wanted to see Hislop's full interview. He doesn't let go very often but when he does it's always legitimate and superb.
😂😂Ian is ruthless, and thank God!
Still tearing into him him as the credits roll. Excellent work Ian. Going to renew my private eye subscription
Yes he was letting him him have have it wasn't wasn't he?🤣
Its about time Ian stopped Private Eye and started running for election. We had one of his joke guests running the country, now lets have him. Id vote for him in a heartbeat and i cant be alone.
Iain Hislop you speak for all of us who are neither ignoring the facts nor corrupt in our own actions. You are as many have said a National Treasure. Thank you.
I’m a Yank (sorry), and for years I’ve loved Ian Hislop. This was brilliant. At his best.
Be proud, you lot walked away..
When will we see CEOs held accountable they leave a company with a golden handshake even though they've fucked up big style... Massive bonuses to shareholders demoralised workforce then handed another another CEO position to do it all again it beggars belief... My heart goes out to all of the people and their families who have been affected by this disgusting miscarriage of justice 😢
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.
Ian Hislop has my ultimate respect - despite the private education, leading to Oxford furtherance and connections which I've no doubt, in part (alongside his intelligence, of course) culminated in Private Eye editorship at a comparatively young age, he has spent his life and intellect in a truly worthy and commendable way - exposing hypocrisy and bullshit and never being cowed by those so many with his background end up becoming. Legend and titan.
Adam Crozier has swerved his responsibility. He was at the top of the Post Office when crucial decisions were made. He went on to become head of ITV and subsequently BT. Weird how his mates at ITV helped him not to be held accountable in the drama that aired.
Robert Peston continually denied Ian an opportunity to articulate his points, while trying to make fun the whole situation, well done Ian.
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?
four suicides due to this scandal, people made to felel shame and made to feel they let down the people they serve. how do you bring back a life lost?
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
Ian Hislop is amazing. He’s not scared of any of them. He says what he means and means what he says.
I’m astonished as to why Peston didn’t dedicate his entire programme to this subject. This debate was really riveting and it was over before it got going.
I've never seen Ian Hislop so angry.
And so right.
I'll start my subscription today.
Private Eye and Mr Hislop championed the postmasters for years. Thank you Ian
Typical Tory Politician, totally blind when it comes to reality. Keep it up Ian
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.
over the last 30 years minimum, (since I've been reading it), Private Eye has been giving the uk the most honest and truthful journalism!
We should boycott all other British papers!
Ian Hislop and Private Eye are the Rock Stars of UK Politics - Well done Ian for pushing this for over decade.
Love Ian Hislop’s passion for the truth. 👍🫶
The thing that struck me was how it could so easily be proven that the money wasn't stolen as it would never have appeared in their bank account or even been spent!
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.
Well said Ian Hislop.
Hold those smirking MP's to account.
They, the system and the establishment all stink and are rotten to the core.
I hope that having an advocate for those Post Masters & Mistresses such as Ian will advance the case & conclude with full and speedy redress.
Fujitsu MUST pay every postmaster wrongly accused/convicted that million Ian suggested and the losses incurred to the taxpayer. A shocking abuse of corporate power
We absolutely neeeeeeeeeed a no nonsense leader like Ian. The media needs to take serious notes from him too. Hes the only one i can rhink of thats seriously holding politicians to account
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.
Sir Ian Hislop (sounds good) he’s 100% true. This all comes down to electioneering. The only reason this is being acted on.
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.
Perfect example of why Ian Hislop is loved and honored across Britain, USA, and Commonwealth
Lovely work from Mr Hislop…pure passion!
Ian Hislop is brilliant. We need more like him.
The difference between someone who's looked at this for ten minutes vs someone who has looked at it for over ten years. Men against boys stuff from Hislop.
The Tories hate Ian Hislop because he is so thorougher in all of his investigations and nobody can hold a candle to him. I wish we had more like Ian scrutinising what the shower in government get up to and to think That creep Jake Berry tory MP for Darwen and Rossendale who was up Boris Johnsons arse throughout the time Johnson was prime minister and Boris Johnson gives him a totally unworthy knighthood for his loyalty to a man who had to resign. What an accolade of achievement for Jake Berry.
Good to see Hislop making himself heard. Private Eye has reported on this disgusting miscarriage/cover up for many years. The root of this (and many others similar) is that successive Gov'ts have had to rely on on quick fixes by outsourcing to Corporations instead of investing in controlled, fit for purpose bodies. The outsourced Corps have the Gov't by the short n curlies when the Contract is drawn up. They take the piss. Big time. Fujitsu suing the NHS for £700 MILLION. FFS. And still getting £BILLIONS worth of tax-payer funded contracts.
Ian Hislop proving again what a legend he is! I would say he should be knighted if I wasn’t against the monarchy and everything that accompanies it including that ridiculous awards system! 😂
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.
I think that may be the angriest I’ve seen Hislop and good on him, absolutely justified.
Before we get even near policy, we’ve got to have more competent and honest government. Excoriation and humiliation are the only things that seem to hold this mob up for a second, so those who can do it publicly, must. Although I’m glad something is happening for the postmasters, this feels like an incredibly cynical PR job by a government desperate to turn opinion polls around.
@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
I hope Ian is training and coaching and mentoring other people to do what he does, when he can’t do it any longer.
We need people like this.
I was thinking exactly the same thing 👍
What on earth has Jake Berry ever done to deserve a knighthood?
Blindly supported a bin bag full of custard
Friend of boris, that’s it.
Ian Hislop should be given a peerage. That way he could use ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ to highlight serious issues without fear of legal action. Since he’s continuously demonstrated his integrity over many years, I feel we could be confident he would not abuse the position- unlike many others.
@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.
The best bit of television I see in my life absolutely brilliant thank you Ian Hislop that's the people want more honesty like that thank you once again.
Just a shame it didn't go on longer...
One of the best Peston shows ever! Having someone like Ian Hislop on, telling it like it is, is fantastic. He should have been allowed to speak for longer, everything he said is true. Fujitsu must be made to pay, and so should the previous bosses at Post Office Ltd, who took such large bonuses at the expense of the misery and ruin of sub-postmasters!
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.
You failed to mention the £46,000,000 taken by the cartel of lawyers representing the victims leaving the postmasters and mistresses £20,000 each? A bloody disgrace. Has anyone questioned even in the expensive world of litigation how £46,000,000 can be justified.
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.
I'm glad all of these people can find humour in this horror show, when people went to prison and even committed sui*. Even now, there is a refusal to own up and take responsibility.
The people responsible for this utter clusterfk need to be behind bars.
I don't think a single person here would disagree with you
Ian has been to court so many times he has to make sure what he's saying is correct!...He's ace...
This is so awesome. Jess' face when Hislop lets rip is so good.
Ian's clarity of thought is matched only by his erudite delivery. The greatest exponent of " telling it like if is."
Hislop is a warrior beast that we the general public need ..
Sees through bs and cuts them down with his morals,facts, and intellect ..
amazing how its taken a tv show to bring attention to something that was allowed to happen years ago
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.
Can't watch this often enough! Ian Hislop still has the fire in his belly that makes him one of our greatest-ever campaigning journalists - and he's funny too. Jake Berry never stood a chance (not that there's any reason to cry over that!).
Go Ian! One of Britain’s best journalists
The Post Office should have the right to directly prosecute and investigate taken away - they were judge, jury and executioner and totally biased and even paid bonuses to the psychopathic investigators for chasing down innocent people and ignoring the errors in the Horizon system.
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 is rather disgusting that Peston tries to laugh his way through the segment.
What lefty peston?
Embarrassed at the anger live on air. Peston is ok I think
"You can't just talk nonsense and not be interrupted!" Love it
Would love Ian Hislop to be a regular on this programme. What a pity they cut this short.
We need more Ian Hislops in this country
There was a BBC Panorama investigation in 2015 on the Post Office scandal which included interviews with the Fujitsu whistleblower.
i had to shout "SHUT UP !" at my computer as soon as peston jumped in to quiet Mr Hislop and thereby help defend the criminal filth from the lambasting they so richly deserve to receive...on their way to prison.
Sad that democratically elected politicians in Britain seem to have as much respect for the truth as Trump and Putin. Thanks Ian from the bottom of a deeply cynical person please keep it up.
Wait, what? You're thanking him from your bottom...really??🤔
Let me think for a second. Trump or the Biden crime family. Trump regenerates the economy of the U.S.A. and Biden destroys it for no other reason than to maliciously reverse all of the acts brought in by Trump. What untruths you are referring to?
What truth are you talking about when referring to Putin?
At least in the UK there's often consequences. Sometimes swiftly, sometimes eventually.
He’s a national treasure
Hislop is perfectly right. Fujitsu is a multi billion pound company. They should be made to stump up some money to compensate these people, some of whom have lost EVERYTHING. Homes, reputations, friends (not really friends were they then?) livelihoods, relationships and pensions. £1m per sub postmaster is the very least they should be offering. For 25 years this has been dragging on and only now, following the ITV drama, is the government getting its arse into gear. Those in control of the Post Office who knew that the Horizon systems was flawed and yet still carried on with prosecutions should be hauled before the courts and made to pay both financially and emotionally for their role in this massive scandal. To tell each victim that they were the only one and no one else was having trouble was disgraceful. A Helpline that was anything but. The Post Office STOLE £1000s from these people - they deserve that money returned and SUBSTANTIAL compensation. To hell with the cost to the government/taxpayer - JUSTICE MUST BE DONE - AND SEEN TO BE DONE.
Jake Berry...... goes with whatever direction the prevailing Tory wind is blowing!! Great work by Hislop!!!!
Love it that even at the end Ian wouldn't let it go
Ian Hislop. The ultimate hero who talks common sense.
17 Post Office Ministers since 2000 and 16 Business Secretaries. These are complicated briefs that they are in charge of, so how the hell are they supposed to get fully 'tuned in' to their jobs given tenures are so short? This seems to be typical of the way governments carry out their policy and oversight responsibilities - short termist, short-sighted and a reshuffle every few months (it seems).
The man has big fat balls to stand up and say it exactly as it is! Thank god for people like him. Well said Ian! You’re one of a kind! 👏🏽
Ian Hislop is a legend 👏👏👏👏👏