Private Eye had been established two years earlier, but this was its first major scrape with the law. The man they’d offended was Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston, who really wasn’t the man his father had been: he was, variously, a boozer, a carouser, a rip-roarer… You get the picture.He was also a thin-skinned fighter, so when the Eye published a cartoon strip which suggested he wasn’t really writing an upcoming biography of his father and had instead forced a load of student lackeys to do the work under his name, he sued everybody.Really, everybody.
Not just the publishers, but every single person listed in the issue as a contributor. It included somebody called Mrs O’Morgo-Ingrams, who didn’t actually exist, and was just an office.
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