The Oldie

30 pearls of wisdom

God speed to the Old Un!

Terry Wogan on our 1992 launch

I am so looking forward to contributing to The Oldie. I see it as a truss for the brain, a surgical stocking for the soul and a Zimmer frame for the mind.

Beryl Bainbridge, Oldie theatre critic

1. Inveighing against the ignorance, idleness, stupidity, dishonesty and sexual incompetence of the young.

2. Insulting the young in any and every manifestation.

3. Insulting the old who seem

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