Journalist Christopher Booker , a founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye , recalled the `` bewitching '' character of the swinging sixties : `` There seemed to be no one standing outside the bubble , and observing just how odd and shallow and egocentric and even rather horrible it was '' . Journalist Christopher Booker , a founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye , recalled the `` bewitching '' character of the swinging sixties : `` There seemed to be no one standing outside the bubble , and observing just how odd and shallow and egocentric and even rather horrible it was . ''