

Edward Enfield causing trouble through letter-writing*Joan Collins as described by Mark Ellen * Elwyn Jones on doing a life sentence in a North Carolina penitentiary*Roger Law of Fluck & Law fame going to pot (literally) in China* Nick Newman on the horrors of the queue to see the Leonardo exhibition * Jamie Douglas-Home on the horror that is Dumfries House* Plus Books of the Year from Jane Gardam, William Trevor, Peter O' Toole, Lucinda Lambton, Jilly Cooper and more....
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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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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 with emphasis on good writing, humour and quality illustration..."


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.