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Welcome! The Oldie is Richard Ingrams' humorous monthly magazine, packed with great writers and cartoons - a veritable Private Eye for grown-ups...
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The distinguishing mark of modern society, G K Chesterton once wrote, is a hatred of religion. If that was the case more than 100 years ago, you could magnify it 100 times over for today. Hatred is the crucial word. Not apathy or indifference, but a violent reaction of the type that can lead to intemperate, illogical language even from clever people.
RICHARD INGRAMS WRITES: "After editing Private Eye for over twenty years, I decided in 1992, along with a group of friends (Auberon Waugh, Alexander Chancellor and Stephen Glover), to launch The Oldie. The aim was to produce an antidote to youth culture but, more importantly, a magazine wih emphasis on good writing, humour and quality illustration..."
Joanna Lumley won this year's Oldie of the Year for her courageous fight for the rights of Ghurkhas while P.D. James was pronounced Handbagger of the Year.
Candida Lycett Green has been writing her Unwrecked England column for The Oldie since its launch in 1992. Her new book gathers together one hundred of her favourite places. She tells us more about the book and why these places are special.
If you enjoy our cartoons you will enjoy The Oldie Cartoon Exhibition at London's Cartoon Museum where a selection of the best cartoons from The Oldie Book of Cartoons 1992-2009 will be on display. You can also buy more than 100 original cartoons just up the road at Abbott and Holder. The exhibition at the Cartoon Museum (35 Little Russell Street) and sale at Abbott and Holder (30 Museum Street, near the British Museum) both run from 1st October to 24th December. We urge you to visit both..jpg)
FOR fifteen years The Oldie has been publishing tales of chance enounters with the famous and infamous – writers, artists, politicians, rogues, murderers and more besides. Browse a selection from our archive here.