Just Fancy That
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Just Fancy That is a feature in Private Eye which appears throughout the magazine. It contrasts what people and newspapers have said about particular subjects at various times with the purpose of highlighting either inconsistency, inaccuracy, or hypocrisy.
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- "Attention is drawn to that great British man of letters, Christopher Hitchens... Hitchens's invective, at once forensic and brimming with righteous indignation, makes him as the greatest polemicist of our age." -- George Galloway, Morning Star, 17th August 2001.
- "A drink-sodden ex-Trotskyist popinjay and useful idiot" -- George Galloway on Christopher Hitchens, 17 May 2005[citation needed].