What you were saying a moment ago is whatjournalism is about, what is your starting point with thinking about how we deal with this . Do you just think lets get the bestjokes or do you think we really need to reflect the yea r . I try and get the bestjokes and if weve been dull about a particular subject or have not covered it well, i try and leave it out. I mean, were exhaustive, but the idea is to be entertaining. Youve been personally committed, havent you, to trying to reverse the decline of the english cartoonist . Yes. Why have you and private eye kept up with your investment in cartoons . Um, because, um, people like them and the mag sells. No, obviously, its a much more elevated reason than that. No, i love cartoons and i think that one of the things that print can do is reproduce sort of beautiful drawings that are funny. And english cartooning tradition is very old and i think absolutely remarkable. So i am basically i doubled the number of cartoons um, and people said, well,
Australias Prime Minister apologises for holidaying in hawaii as wildfires continue to sweep across three states. If the queen attends a Church Service in sandringham while the duke of edinburgh spent a second night in hospital receiving treatment for a pre exisiting condition. And coming up, rhe bbcs media editor meets the editor of private eye magazine at 17 30. A walk through the year in media with ian hislop. Hello, good afternoon. A six Year Old Girl has opened a pack of Tesco Christmas cards to find a message saying they were packed by prisoners in china being forced to work against their will. Tesco says its stopped production at the factory while it investigates. Greg mackenzie reports. Ready . Uhhuh. It was six year old schoolgirl florence widdecombe whod sat down at home to write out her Christmas Cards to her friends and family when she discovered one of the cards had already been written out. We were writing in them and about on my sixth or eighth card, there was. Somebody
In the story, public money had gone to those women who dances around the lap dancing pole but essentially the joke was that borisjohnson had been caught out. He is saying, i need technology lessons, and she is saying, floppy disk or hard drive. There is a properjoke here, with boris into his new girlfriend, i do not lie to women any more, and she says, except the queen. That is not a legal problem. That is the supreme courtjudgment. This is ourjob, reporting. And you sometimes jump on anniversaries, too. Yes. This is when boris became prime minister, which many people equate with an event as unlikely as landing on the moon. But he did, and theres this brilliant picture of him just going into number 10, so we did it as the lunar landing, a souvenir issue one small step for man and a giant leap in the dark for mankind and put it in black and white. And in terms of your annual, when youve got a year to get through youve done many of these annuals, of course when youve got to curate a year
Ukraine, solicited the government of ukraine to start investigations that would harm the political perspectives of a political opponent. Is that not the abuse of power that the founders had in mind when they drew up the impeachment clause into the institution. I feel bad that im going to give you the answer. I had all morning, after all. Which is, theres this political constitutional process under way on the hill and the attorney general is not part of that process and at this stage, im just not going to comment on it. Nothing at all on i will say i will say on the other article of impeachment relating to obstruction, i dont believe its the case that where somebody including a branch of government is asserting a legal privilege that they have under the law, that that constitutes obstruction. The second article says President Trump directed the unprecedented categorical and indiscriminate defiance of subpoenas issued by the house of representatives. And it gives the house sole responsib
To be treated for whats being described as a pre existing condition. Almost 100 Flood Warnings are in place across england, and the situation is set to get worse, with heavy rain forecast overnight. And coming up, the bbcs media editor meets the editor of private eye magazine at 17 30 a walk through the year in media with ian hislop. Good afternoon. More than 100 bushfires are raging across australias most populous state, New South Wales. Christmas travellers are being urged to delay theirjourneys as record temperatures of more than a0 degrees and strong winds intensify the fires. Australias deputy Prime Minister, Michael Mccormack has said his country must step up its efforts to tackle climate change. Heres our sydney correspondent shaimaa khalil. correspondent shaimaa khalil. This was said to be one of the worst days australias most populous state has ever seen, and its lived up to every urgent warning. Huge flames spiralling out of control, moved by strong, unpredictable wind. This