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All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.
I should go on Mastermind, answering questions on the life and times of Jeffery Archer. I'd get more questions right than he would!
I try to let the stories speak for themselves, to see if it is possible at this distance to make those men come alive.
I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. I... (more Ian Hislop quotes)
In 2007, Hislop became the only person to go on the BBC show Room 101 twice. It was Paul Merton's (Hislop's sparring partner in Have I Got News For You) last show as host.
After school, and before going to Oxford, Ian spent time on a kibbutz.
Both his grandfathers fought in wars; his maternal grandfather in the Boer War and his paternal grandfather in World War One.
In 1991, Ian was the Editors' Editor of the Year Award (from the British Societ... (more Ian Hislop trivia)