Geoffrey Bindman marks a half century of libel action at Private Eye
Long lunches
As their legal adviser, I attended the regular Eye lunches at the Coach & Horses in Soho. On these enjoyable occasions celebrities such as Alan Clark and Stephen Fry—among others whom it would be indiscreet to identify—were pumped for stories of scandal in high places, by which readers of forthcoming issues of the paper were duly entertained. More recently, my invitations to lunch have been reduced to one a year, when the editor is on holiday.