Reading all the moans and whines I felt I had to defend HIGNFY.
We have never missed a single episode of this series since it started in 1991. We have either recorded it on video or in later years caught up with it on BBC iPlayer.
Like all satirical news programmes some episodes are better than others depending on what is happening in the world and the dynamics of the chair and teams. However, it always worth watching and Ian Hislop's continued "truth to power" denunciations are ever more relevant at present as Britain's governing party since 2010 has now sunk so low and has been embroiled in so much sleaze and corruption it is almost beyond satire and is making Robert Walpole look honest.
As Ian once noted satire has never changed anything but it does hold the mirror up to those in power and allows us to mock and ridicule their pretensions, venality, and cupidity.
Long may HIGNFY continue.
We have never missed a single episode of this series since it started in 1991. We have either recorded it on video or in later years caught up with it on BBC iPlayer.
Like all satirical news programmes some episodes are better than others depending on what is happening in the world and the dynamics of the chair and teams. However, it always worth watching and Ian Hislop's continued "truth to power" denunciations are ever more relevant at present as Britain's governing party since 2010 has now sunk so low and has been embroiled in so much sleaze and corruption it is almost beyond satire and is making Robert Walpole look honest.
As Ian once noted satire has never changed anything but it does hold the mirror up to those in power and allows us to mock and ridicule their pretensions, venality, and cupidity.
Long may HIGNFY continue.