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From the archives...

Sam Taylor

East of Islington

Will East of Islington's most notorious stray survive with his manhood intact?
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Edward Enfield

The world according to Enfield Snr

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What are The Oldie's regular writers talking about
this month?

EAST OF ISLINGTON by Sam Taylor
The gas man cometh...

HOUSE HUSBANDRY by Giles Wood
In which Mr Wood contrasts the modern boarding school experience with the rigours of the ancien regime
VIRGINIA IRONSIDE: GRANNY ANNEXE
'I wonder whether now isn't the time to do drugs. I mean 'do' them rather than 'take' them

SUPERBYWAYS by Webster
Fair shares

WILFRED DE'ATH
On Esther Rantzen

DR STUTTAFORD'S SURGERY
Urine colour and budget eating

WHITEBOARD JUNGLE by Kate Sawyer
Better the Head you know

GOD... with Melanie McDonagh

MAMMON... with Margaret Dibben

WORDS, WORDS, WORDS by Diarmaid O'Muirithe
Frogs of throat and pond

UNWRECKED ENGLAND
Candida Lycett Green on the UK's unspoilt places. This month: The Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

ROVING REPORTER by John Sweeney
Building bridges, a comparative study