"I am the first to admit we have dropped a few clangers — partly out of carelessness, partly out of an overzealous wish to run a story. The Eyes success has made us more cautious recently, particularly about business news. One has to be more careful about people in the City than when writing about, say, Margaret Thatcher, when one can be more knockabout."
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Ingrams had announced he was standing down as Private Eye editor in September 1986 to be succeeded by Ian Hislop.
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