On our pearl anniversary, we’ve raided The Oldie’s brimming archive
God speed to the Old Un! Terry Wogan on our 1992 launch I am so looking forward to contributing to The Oldie. I see it as a truss for the brain, a surgical stocking for the soul and a Zimmer frame for the mind. Beryl Bainbridge, Oldie theatre critic 1. Inveighing against the ignorance, idleness, stupidity, dishonesty and sexual incompetence of the young. 2. Insulting the young in any and every manifestation. 3. Insulting the old who seem to be deferring or otherwise sucking up to the young. 4. Promoting the idea of ‘age fascism’, whereby the young are automatically seen as inferior. 5. Denouncing new things, new ideas, modernism in any form, especially anything proposed in the name of youth or by someone under the age of 40. Auberon Waugh’s initial suggestions for his Oldie column, ‘Rage’ ...
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