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. Sixteen years later, The Oldie can well claim to be a success story, attracting some of our best writers, illustrators and cartoonists.'

'We provide all you should expect from a quality monthly magazine – reviews of arts and books, great features, independent opinions – as well as some things you might not expect, such as our I Once Met  column, where readers write about their encounters with the famous or infamous, Still With Us, which catches up with people you might have thought were dead, and our Anorak slot, where each month a different ‘geek’ confesses to their private passion.'