BBCNEWS Ian Hislops 2022 June 4, 2024 03:51:00
We are perfectly capable of being serious about what is serious. erm, and i do think it was an extraordinarily mature response. erm, whenever anyone said, "this is a tragedy," someone else said, "no, it isn't a tragedy. she's a very, very old woman "who's had the most extraordinary life." it's a huge loss. but i did think there was a...a genuine sense of what had happened that took over the country. and that struck me as...as...as...as terribly positive. i remember thinking, "how's private eye going to cover this?" this seemed to me an event that took its own life. and the first thing it did, ...