So who are the three gorgeous, pouting EyeBirds then? – and whose backside is Mr Booker observing so intently (did it remind him of the Euston Arch perhaps)?

Is that Booker’s mum standing up? Or Ian Hislop’s (mum-to-be-one-day)?

Ian Hislop was actually all of 15 months old when the first edition of the Eye came out (but living in Nigeria, and it was a long time before they got round to overseas subscriptions).