The Oldie - 1 Dez 2025
100 years of modernism
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Princess Margaret on Mustique
Who wants to be a millionaire?
Do skinny jabs work? Fat chance!
El Generalismo: Franco: Power, Violence and the
Britain’s oldest modern-art gallery
Ernie Wise at 100
Margaret’s Mustique
OUTNOW! Oldie The 2026 Annual
Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World, by John
Holbein: Renaissance Master,
Features
My dad invented TV
From the Castle to the Hove-l,
Death of an Ordinary Man,
Margaret in Mustique
Taking a Walk: autumnal Northamptonshire
Overlooked Britain: Papplewell Pumping Station
Gardening
Modern Life: What is stupidogenesis?
Reader trip to the Loire Valley ... in the footsteps of the Plantagenets
John Vanbrugh, 300 years on
A century of art at the Mayor Gallery
The Old Un’s Notes
Real SAS rogue hero Paddy Mayne
Rant: Trendy hamburgers
A Life in Letters, by John Updike
Widowed and downsizing
I Once Met … Tom Jones
Postcards from the Edge
The Doctor’s Surgery
Olden Life: What were polyfotos?
Literary lunch
Memorial Service: Ray Brooks
Restored-art disasters
On the Road: Alf Dubs
Oldie Man of Letters
Bird of the Month: Brent goose
How I won a million
Grumpy Oldie Man
Digital Life
Ernie Wise at 100
Kitchen Garden
Restaurants
Exhibitions
Town Mouse
Memory Lane
School Days
Country Mouse
Money Matters
Television
Competition
Golden Oldies
Mary Killen’s Beauty Tips
Cookery
Small World
History
Music
Gyles Brandreth’s Diary
Bridge
Prue’s News Prue Leith
Commonplace Corner
Motoring
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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GREAT BORES OF TODAY – THE GOOD OLD BRITISH PUB
P G Wodehouse’s Plum Lines
Unveiling theatre’s unsung hero
Let us pray for a living saint
what were
what is stupidogenesis?
Anne Frank, ten, in her 1939 polyfotos
Father of the TV age
Father of the TV age
I wanted to be a millionaire
Importance of being Ernie
Importance of being Ernie
Words can never hurt me
100 years of modernism
The SAS legal eagle
When two become one
Bitter secrets of Iris Murdoch’s marriage
Vanbrugh Revisited
Avoid the Denis Healey look
Lose weight with skinny jabs? Fat chance!
Cinema Paradiso – in Maidstone
There were no punters at the white elephant stall – until I came flying to the rescue Angel of the Church Coffee Morning
Grey squirrels, watch out! John Humphrys is about
The strange death of broadcast news
History pictures paint a thousand words
My candidate for the Bad Sex Prize
Ray Brooks (1939-2025)
The Bible’s message – don’t be beige
Bad news – or fake news?
Christmas Round-up of the Best Books
Review of Books: Winter Delights
FICTION
Michael Barber looks beyond Slow Horses to the next crime novels
Christopher Silvester on celebrity biographies and memoirs
Tim Willis dives into the past
Stephen Cooper picks the best
Nicholas Shakespeare’s favourites
Emily Bearn’s magical stocking fillers
Sam Leith on the latest techie books
Lulu Taylor defends popular fiction
A BOOKWORM’S DIARY
Peter Harper’s poetic meeting
CURRENT AFFAIRS
MISCELLANEOUS
ART & CRAFT
HISTORY
Literary gossip from Jilly Cooper, Mary Beard – and Queen Victoria.
The Bookworm’s Diary
NEW RELEASES IN THE NEXT 3 MONTHS
STORYTELLER
Recent Memoirs not to be missed
THE CONFESSIONS OF SAMUEL PEPYS
AUGUSTINE THE AFRICAN
ALEXANDRIAN SPHINX
CHRISTOPHER SILVESTER sifts through the tottering piles of new books about and by celebrities
TIM WILLIS heads back into the ancient past
THE WARS OF THE ROSES
THE RAGE OF PARTY
THE TRAITORS’ CIRCLE
THE FINEST HOTEL IN KABUL
A SHORT HISTORY OF STUPIDITY
Just how dangerous is AI? And are we all doomed? SAM LEITH on new books on tech
POWER AND THE PALACE
BETWEEN THE WAVES
OFF THE RAILS
INJURY TIME
EVERY LAST FISH
At a Nobel conference, PETER HARPER was dazzled by a sublime W H Auden – and staggered by a ridiculous Arthur Koestler
Proust is gibberish – and Middlemarch horrifying, says NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE
VENETIAN VESPERS
A LONG WINTER
THE SECRET OF SECRETS
RICHARD LLOYD PARRY
THE TWO ROBERTS
Do men read women’s novels? STEPHEN COOPER celebrates the latest crop – and says they should
EMILY BEARN picks her favourite stocking fillers for Christmas
VERMEER
COMRADES IN ART
CRAFTLAND
LOVE’S LABOUR
ON FRIENDSHIP
THE BOOK OF KELLS
LITERARY GARDENS
CHASING THE DARK
THE BIBLE OF BRITISH TASTE
THE QUIET EAR
A YEAR WITH GILBERT WHITE
MICHAEL BARBER looks ahead to crime novels beyond Mick Herron’s Slow Horses
Why was Jilly Cooper praised on her death – and mocked during her life?
Tom Jones
Dream teen job? Working on a pig farm
Rude Brian Sewell
Whistling for oldies… …and hospital patients
RIP literary biography
His nibs
Teutonic heroes
RIP Gillian Tindall
Marrying for money
Highland Hallowe’en
The write stuff
Franco’s reign in Spain
Down and out in Hove
Tudor pin-ups
Grecian 2025
SPINNING THE PLATES OF FEAR AND OPTIMISM
Dying of the light
Rampant Rabbit
Commonplace Corner
Trendy hamburgers
SMALL DELIGHTS
HARRY MOUNT
WILLIAM COOK
VALERIE GROVE
FRANCES WILSON
RICHARD OSBORNE
MARK ELLEN
HUON MALLALIEU
DAVID WHEELER
SIMON COURTAULD
ELISABETH LUARD
JAMES PEMBROKE
BILL KNOTT
Wine
JIM WHITE
ALAN JUDD
Big Brother is costing you
Silver Lining to the Gold Rush
Follow Huon Mallalieu in the footsteps of the Plantagenets in the Loire Valley
Brent goose
Treasured island
Treasured island
Pumping for joy
Pumping for joy
My great escape
Genius crossword 459
Moron crossword 459
Genius 457 solution
Moron 457 answers.
TESSA CASTRO
BRIDGE
The Bermuda Triangle of Northants
Rogues’ over-restored gallery
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