"The Oldie" - A must read for anyone over 50

Friday, 25 June 2010

The Oldie is Richard Ingrams' humorous monthly magazine, packed with great writers and cartoons—a veritable Private Eye for grown-ups.

'The most original magazine in the country... The Oldie's eclectic embrace of human variety is a monthly rebuke to the formulaic, celebrity-led concept of features in our newspapers and magazines.'

– The Independent on Sunday

What is The Oldie?

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. Eighteen 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 World’s Worst Dumps slot, where readers reveal their most horrific travel tales.’

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