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How Ian Hislop failed the gender test

29 April 2025

3:30 PM

29 April 2025

3:30 PM

Ian Hislop has found someone to blame for Have I Got News For You‘s failure to tackle the Supreme Court’s gender ruling: the programme’s editors. After the BBC show ignored the big story of the month on its Easter edition, Hislop launched into a rant on the latest episode – insisting that he had spoken about the subject:

‘A lot of people said Have I Got News For You was pathetic, because last week nobody answered this question (on the gender ruling).

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