Richard Ingrams
Richard Ingrams has written a column for The Independent since 2005. A key figures in the satire boom of the 1960s, he helped found Private Eye and edited it for 23 years. In 1992 he founded The Oldie, which he has edited since. Vintage humorist, scourge of the pompous and the power-hungry, Ingrams brings a unique perspective to bear on the political foibles of the age and on a culture in thrall to celebrity.
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Richard Ingrams: Labour can't turn its back on an architect of war
Saturday, 29 May 2010
The Tories refused to put up a Cabinet minister to go on the BBC's Question Time on Thursday because Alastair Campbell had already been booked.
Richard Ingrams: Why show the debate where lots of us can't see it?
Saturday, 24 April 2010
I searched the Evening Standard TV guide on Thursday to try to find details of the great election debate but there was nothing to say when it was on or on which channel you could watch it.
Richard Ingrams’s Week: I decide who to vote for – and then something puts me off
Saturday, 10 April 2010
As a floating voter, I have traditionally based my decision on whom to vote for on purely negative and, it has to be said, extremely trivial issues.
Richard Ingrams’s Week: A debate that highlights the BBC's dereliction of duty
Saturday, 3 April 2010
There was something a bit reminiscent of the Three Tenors about Monday's Channel 4 debate starring Messrs Darling, Osborne and Cable. Given the generally harmonious atmosphere, I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd all three burst into song – "I can't give you anything but cuts".
Richard Ingrams’s Week: Some friends will stick to you through thick and thin
Saturday, 27 March 2010
The expulsion of a Mossad man from London following the affair over the forged passports used by a gang of Israeli assassins in Dubai is welcome, if only to remind us that regardless of this single expulsion Mossad operates openly out of London with the full approval of the British Government.
Richard Ingrams's Week: No one knows how to educate our children
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Would Boris claim that his knowledge of Latin helps him in any way when it comes to dealing with the congestion charge?
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