The Accidental Institution

August 9, 2011

By Christopher Hitchens

"At whose expense comes the mild irony when, this fall, the cheaply produced scandal sheet Private Eye will have an exhibition of its cartoons and pictorial covers at the Victoria and Albert Museum, a building consecrated to taste and restraint?"

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...
August 9, 2011 at 11:48 PM  

the link ain't workin' and VF doesn't show the article

 
Tom said...
August 10, 2011 at 7:35 AM  

should work now..

 
Anonymous said...
August 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM  

As he's an old friend of the Private Eye lot, I've always wondered why Hitchens never appeared on 'Have I got News for you'.

 
Tom said...
August 11, 2011 at 9:31 PM  

@Anonymous

I think having lived in a different country for the entire run of the show might have something to do with that. That said, Hitch has done Question Time at least once, so perhaps it's more to do with HIGNFY being too lowbrow for him.

 
Anonymous said...
August 12, 2011 at 9:22 PM  

For any Brits - The Eye is an absolute MUST read.

My hour on Friday evening in the Nelson with a pint or two of Hardys and Hansons bitter and the Eye is something I look forward to all week.

It makes your hair stand on end... and can hilariously funny too.

 
Anonymous said...
August 13, 2011 at 2:20 PM  

'CH' would scarely dismiss something as lowbrow. Hitch is cool. He gives interviews on street corners for god sake. He has appeared on TV with (inarticulate) rappers like Mos Def and posed for photos with (and written about) Paris Hilton. You'll find photos of him half naked in the shower online. He doesn't give a shit. Anyway, Peter Hitchens did appear on HIGNFY. I'd say Hitch wasn't available. It would be great if he did it in the end.
- C

 
tim said...
August 13, 2011 at 9:35 PM  

Hitchens is the business. I don't agree with everything he says, but I love his advocacy of reason.

 
Karen Olsen said...
August 14, 2011 at 2:28 AM  

This was a fun column, a bit more light-hearted than some of the recent Slate articles about things like Turkey and the Gaza Flotilla. I'm not familiar with the Private Eye (being a Yank and all; I was last in the U.K. in March of 1985); but it sounds like something Hitch had a good time writing about...

--Karen Olsen

 
你好嗎 said...
August 14, 2011 at 3:46 PM  

@Karen its best to keep maps away from children until they learn to properly experience worlds. :)

 
Anonymous said...
August 15, 2011 at 7:29 PM  

@我很好 and how or what exactly do you propose to teach of how to 'properly experience worlds...'? really. i'm curious to hear. :)

 
你好嗎 said...
August 16, 2011 at 10:21 PM  

@我很好
don't know, just fishin'

 

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