The Oldie, the magazine that dares to be interesting . . .

How would you like a monthly magazine which is…

• Unpredictable and eclectic
• Where Britain’s best writers express themselves freely and passionately
• Where books and the arts are reviewed without mercy
• A sanctuary for all who are irritated by our celebrity-obsessed media and culture
• Full of cartoons and is very funny

…and celebrates the unusual and eccentric?

Edited by ex-Private Eye man Richard Ingrams, The Oldie is emphatically not a magazine about retirement. We recognise that what our readers want more than anything else is good writing and amusing articles on a wide variety of topics. It is for any independent-minded reader.

As well as all the regular book reviews (recent reviewers have included Tony Benn and Colin Dexter), arts and theatre, travel and columns (Virginia Ironside and John Sweeney to name just two), The Oldie has regular interviews with MPs, writers, comedians and those currently in the news. Our "I Once Met" feature is written by our readers, telling of their run-ins with the famous and infamous, while our "Anorak" column is written by a different geek every month (music critic Stuart Maconie recently confessed all). You’ll find a sense of humour an advantage.

Plus! The Oldie Review of Books is our free quarterly supplement which gives you a digest of reviews of the sixty best books of the quarter. We compile not just our own views but those of all the national press and leading magazines to ensure you get the best picture. This is in addition to our renowned book sections and reviewers.

June Issue

• Oldie exclusive: new short story by Jane Gardam

• The Swinging Sixties and the myth of sexual freedom

• Ageism in British politics

• Wilfred De’Ath: in the clear?

• Would you let John Sweeney into your country?

• Doing well by doing good?

June Oldie

• Oldie exclusive: new short story by Jane Gardam
Sir Edward Feathers, the subject of Gardam’s 2004 novel Old Filth, appears again in ‘Facing the Music’, a new story written especially for The Oldie. Page 31.

•The Swinging Sixties and the myth of sexual freedom
1965’s Number Ones included  the raunchy ‘Satisfaction’ and the psychedelic ‘Mr
Tambourine Man’. But things were not so groovy if you were a pregnant teenager.
Maxine Doyle writes movingly of her experience and its long-term repercussions. Page 42.

• Ageism in British politics
The population is aging, but the average age of MPs is falling. Austin Mitchell MP (78) vents some justifiable spleen and warns that things can only get worse. Page 22. 

• Wilfred De’Ath: in the clear?
The police are not proceeding with the sex complaint made against maverick columnist De’Ath, but he is a changed man. See page 38 for his reflections on life after Operation Yewtree.

PLUS: 

Fay Weldon talks to The Oldie (p12); Jane Thynne lifts the lid on Hacked Off (p17); My childhood encounter with the ‘prostitutes’ padre’ (p19); Why the left were wrong about Hugo Chávez (p70)...