The Oldie - 1 Nov 2025
Oscar Wilde, my grandfather
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Margaret Thatcher at 100 – John O’sullivan and Nicholas Garland
Great Bores of Today – Michael Heath on Soho legends
Bluestockings are back! Olivia Hurton
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Bluestockings are back
Farmer John
What Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows… Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage, by Stephen Pinker
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe, by Stephen Greenblatt
Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, by Karine Jean-pierre
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief, by Richard Holmes
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Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality, by Ferdinand Mount
Margaret Thatcher turns 100
Overlooked Britain: war memorials at Radley and beyond
Katherine Mansfield: A Hidden Life, by Gerry Kimber
Olden Life: What was whistling?
Requiem Mass: HRH The Duchess of Kent
Oscar Wilde, my grandfather
Return of the bluestockings
Taking a Walk: The Norfolk Broads
Greyhound tour of the USA in 1949
Modern Life: What is a Labubu?
I Once Met … Tina Turner
Bird of the Month: Jack snipe
Postcards from the Edge
The Doctor’s Surgery
Grand old Duke of Kent at 90
The Modern Review remembered
Rant: Internet overload
Theatre: The Producers
The hateful book world
On the Road: Alistair Mcgowan
Fifty years as a teacher
Film: One Battle After Another
I was a terrible farmer
Nazis on screen
Holding out for a hero
Oldie Man of Letters
Grumpy Oldie Man
Town Mouse
Kitchen Garden
Restaurants
Dying to die
Party animals
Memory Lane
Exhibitions
Digital Life
School Days
Country Mouse
Money Matters
Television
Golden Oldies
Competition
Gardening
Mary Killen’s Beauty Tips
Cookery
Small World
History
Music
Bridge
Prue’s News
Commonplace Corner
Radio
Motoring
The Old Un’s Notes
God
Readers’ Letters
Sport
Drink
Crossword
The Old Un’s Notes
Among this month’s contributors
Important stories you may have missed
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RIP dearest Jilly
The nagging ghost in my machine
what was whistling?
what is a Labubu?
Wilde lies
Holding out for a hero
Confessions of a bad farmer
Confessions of a bad farmer
From blackboard to tablet
I lived too long
What a swell party! When great writers want a dramatic scene, they throw a party.
Maggie at 100
Maggie at 100
Nicholas Garland on how he drew Margaret Thatcher
Blue belles
My Mary Whitehouse experience
My war with Richard Burton
My war with Richard Burton
Lowbrow highbrows
Lowbrow highbrows
Youth? The eyes have it
Actors’ tips for growing old gracefully
Low blows at High Table
Sonja, the Fantasy Goddess of the Cleethorpes charity shop
Take me down to Chinatown!
Mary’s trigger warning? Life is toxic
Who remembers the 5th of November?
A teacher’s lot is mostly not a happy one
HRH The Duchess of Kent (1933-2025)
In search of silent beauty? Get thee to a nunnery
To screen or not to screen
Christmas Gift Guide 2025
Christmas Quiz with Marcus Berkmann – win three bottles of Taylor’s Vintage port
What Not to Wear Hugh St Clair on festive jumpers
Church Rev Steve Morris celebrates the Christmas service
Concert Films Mark Ellen picks his all-time favourites
Give Generously Appeals from Jilly Cooper, Amanda Barrie, William Boyd and more
Gifts galore Original ideas from Amelia Milne
Christmas Feasting by Elisabeth Luard
Getaway Hugh Thomson in India
Drink Simon Berry’s good spirits
Gardening by Nigel Summerley
Gifts of Beauty by Mary Killen
Classical DVDS Richard Osborne
Tech by Jonathan Margolis
Books by Lucy Lethbridge
Gifts for everyone
Whose feast is it anyway?
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REV STEVE MORRIS has seen people flock back to church – so long as it’s traditional Midnight Masses
MARK ELLEN on the best pop and concert films Pop Treats
Christmas Classics
Passage to India
Fireside Reading
What Not To Wear
The Spirit of Christmas
Christmas tweaks
The technophile’s dream
Gifts for gardeners
Christmas Prize Quiz
THE PRIZE
Tina Turner
My lost world of Eastbourne vests
John Nott’s one-liner
Boycott’s tough delivery
Salute Sergeant Snudge
Winnie-the-pooh shock
Firefly’s chilly welcome
Wurzels eulogy
No appeasement
Don’t just sit there...
Blueberry thrill
In praise of handwriting
Malevolent Pleasence
MARK BOSTRIDGE
Anyone for Tennyson?
Marlowe murder mystery
Mind games
Commonplace Corner
RANT
SMALL DELIGHTS
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (15)
THE PRODUCERS
TELEVISION
RADIO
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GERARD HOFFNUNG: THE CENTENARY
LOOK BACK AND HANKER
HUON MALLALIEU
DAVID WHEELER
SIMON COURTAULD
ELISABETH LUARD
JAMES PEMBROKE
BILL KNOTT
JIM WHITE
ALAN JUDD
Key facts about the keyboard
Don’t keep companies in the family
Carcassonne and environs ... in the footsteps of the Cathars
Jack snipe
American odyssey
Radley’s lost boys
EL SERENO
Moron crossword 458
Genius 456 solution
Moron 456 answers:
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BRIDGE
Impressionist master
Norfolk Broads clean up their act
The grubby world of books
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