Shock horror

(Praising with faint damns?)

I think the name is meant as a joke, Agus, but the impression it gives is definitely of a cosy mag for the decrepit, which it could hardly be under Richard Ingram. I wonder who will take over?

I subscribed for a while. It is funny in parts, in a rather consciously intelligentsia kind of way. Some of the contributors are good - Kate Sawyer on the Whiteboard Jungle, Virginia Ironside reporting from the Granny Annexe. Wilfrid De'ath is not to my taste.

MrA, DD2 and DSiL and I were discussing that question over dinner Elegran.
We think Ian Hislop is perhaps the man for the job, especially as he was Richard Ingrams' successor at Private Eye.
DD suggested someone from Viz could do the PE job

I don't think Ian Hislop would touch it with a barge pole! Not his thing at all.

But he could certainly give it some spice!

Well yes! Just the thing for it. Sales would shoot up.

My wife and I are devastated by the box-ticking dismissal of Richard Ingrams. We were given our first subscription to the Oldie as a Christmas present from our daughter and it has been renewed for the past 4 years. It is an ongoing joy throughout the year. Who is going to be able to fill the shoes of such a witty, incisive and literate editor. It sounds like a poisoned chalice in more ways than one.

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Not exactly buzzing, though, is it?