The editor of The Oldie has resigned from the magazine after a dispute with the owner and claiming he was 'too old' for disciplinary hearings. After a series of clashes with James Pembroke, owner and publisher of The Oldie, Ingrams left the magazine at the end of May 2014 having resigned as editor. So many clichés about age are wrong or vainly hopeful. The 25th Anniversary issue of the Oldie is now on sale. It was a classic case, he claimed on Desert Island Discs in 2008, of the "old boy network". Winning the Peace: The British in Occupied Germany, 1945–1948, Christopher Knowles, 2017, pg 218, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Along with several other Old Salopians, including Willie Rushton, Ingrams founded Private Eye in 1962, taking over the editorship from Christopher Booker in 1963. The Oldie is a British monthly magazine written for older people "as a light-hearted alternative to a press obsessed with youth and celebrity", according to its website. Alexander’s predecessor, Richard Ingrams, who edited the Oldie from 1992 until 2014, turns 80 in August. The magazine did nearly go under in 1994, before it was saved by the Oldie’s current co-owner and publisher, James Pembroke, who turned the fortnightly magazine into a monthly. That love of nicknames, the delight in silliness, the mocking of pointless authority... Ingrams and Chancellor have always known youth doesn’t have a monopoly on these qualities. He always had a youthful air: a raffish way of dressing, a childlike delight in funny stories and a complete absence of the traditional, ominous symptom of male maturity - the desire to tell other people what to do. I immediately took to the magazine, even though I was only 20. He laughed away at the surreal madness of the police interrogating Hislop about magazine issues dating back to 1974 - when Hislop was just 14. Fun and good articles - is there anything more you could want from a magazine? Hollywood's election divide: who are Donald Trump and Joe Biden's celebrity supporters? Before attending Oxford, he did his National Service in the army ranks after failing his interview for officer training, something which was unusual for someone from his background at the time. Through his maternal grandmother and her ties to the Baring family, Ingrams is a direct descendant of the 19th-century prime minister Earl Grey.[7]. And he, too, retains an air of mischief and boyish delight in the general, all-round ludicrousness of human behaviour. I have a very special offer for supporters of the National Churches Trust…. You can be a youthful oldie, like Chancellor and Ingrams. It’s even more shocking when the new editor of the Oldie Magazine is only 45. Hacks are eternal youths, however old they get - drinking too much, telling funny stories, staying up too late, getting into romantic scrapes, feeling very sorry for themselves the next morning. It's a free-thinking, funny magazine, giving readers a light-hearted alternative to a press that's obsessed with youth and celebrity. This video content is no longer available, To watch The Telegraph's latest video content please visit, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. He had just finished editing the 25th anniversary issue of the magazine, which came out only five days after he died. I interviewed him last week about his latest book - on Ludovic Kennedy’s investigations into miscarriages of justice. His sister-in-law (wife of his late brother Rupert, a publisher) was Davina Ingrams, 18th Baroness Darcy de Knayth; his nephew Caspar is the present baron. It was aimed at older people, yes, but also at young people who wanted to read something grown-up. When Roger Moore took off Madeline Smith's dress in Live & Let Die with a magic watch, he couldn't have been more polite, © 2020 Oldie Publications Ltd. (Company No. He edited, not by cold command, but by a gentle suggestion that your article could always be a little more entertaining. I’ve known him since I was a child - he’s one of my father’s oldest friends. Julie Burchill called it “the most pathetic magazine ever published”; Peter McKay said Naim Attallah, the Oldie’s owner, would have “more chance of seeing a return if he financed a troupe of geriatric piano accordionists working on the Northern Line on Sunday evenings.”. "The idea for the Oldie was cooked up 25 years ago by its founding editor, Richard Ingrams, and his much-lamented successor, the late Alexander Chancellor. Richard Reid Ingrams (born 19 August 1937 in Chelsea, London) is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and founding editor of The Oldie magazine. Ingrams married Mary Morgan on 24 November 1962;[11] they had three children: a son, Fred, who is an artist; a second son, Arthur, who was disabled and died in childhood; and a daughter, Margaret ("Jubby") a mother of three who died in 2004, aged 39, of a heroin overdose in Brighton. [2], Ingrams's parents, who had three other sons including the banker and opera impresario Leonard Ingrams[3], were Leonard St Clair Ingrams (1900–1953), O.B.E.,[4] an investment banker from a clergy family, who worked as a government official in propaganda, economic warfare and the secret services during World War II,[5][6] and Victoria, the daughter of Sir James Reid, private physician to Queen Victoria. The Oldie is not a magazine about retirement. That doesn’t help much if you feel old, tired and ill - and you happen to be all three. Shortly after the death of Jimmy Savile, Ingrams' The Oldie was the first publication to break the story of Savile's history of child abuse, after several national newspapers had been unwilling to print it.[10]. Much as I loved it, it got a kicking from the press to begin with. I’ll take my cue from them both. T hat’s strange - given that he was an extraordinary editor, both at the Oldie, and the Spectator, which he completely turned around in his years in charge from 1975 to 1984. In 2011 he announced he had converted to Roman Catholicism. From Donald Trump to John Prescott: a brief history of 'dad dancing' politicians, Meet the men who are knitting for mindfulness, The best waterproof jackets for men, that won't make you look like an anorak, 'He would rather be laughed at than ignored', Monty Don on how he spends his Saturday in the potting shed and playing his Fender Stratocaster. When Private Eye ran into financial problems Cook was able to gain a majority shareholding on the proceeds of his brief but financially successful venture. It's ageless, timeless, free of retirement advice, and crammed with rejuvenating wit, intelligence and delight. Their aim was to create a free-thinking, funny magazine, a light-hearted alternative to a press obsessed with youth and celebrity. Please register or sign in for free access to the Oldie website. I can now reveal that I am that new editor, appointed after the dreadfully sad death of Alexander Chancellor, who died last Saturday at 77. Well, it can be a pretty terrifying number - particularly when your number’s up. According to his old associate editor at the Spectator, Charles Moore, Alexander’s only editorial policy was, “Well, we should publish some good articles, I suppose.”. More importantly, he met Paul Foot, another former Shrewsbury pupil not yet the left-wing radical he became, who was to be a lifelong friend, and whose biography Ingrams wrote after Foot's death.

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