Richard Ingrams

The crack in the Toby Jug

<I>Richard Ingrams</I> on the truth about the conflicted 
GK Chesterton – and his brush with sainthood
there was bound to be disappointment when, two years ago, the church in the person of rev peter doyle, bishop of northampton rejected the ca...

Why preachers – and politicians – shouldn't speak from notes

i have been told that not so very long ago – certainly in my lifetime – if and when an mp read out his speech in parliament he would be gree...

'I've had some remarkable cures': The story of John Bradburne's red headband

not being able to remember things is one of the consequences of old age, in some cases beneficial, in others frustrating. after many years i...

I've never seen a ghost, but I believe in them

i have never thought it strange that so many people do not believe in god. what i find peculiar is the number of people, many of them sane a...

The satirist who illuminated the strange world of the 1970s

one of the handicaps of old age is the loss, one by one, of those few commentators and journalists to whom one has long looked for guidance ...

A reasonable doubt

friends and colleagues of the distinguished lawyer sir louis blom-cooper will have been puzzled by the opening sentence of his recent obitua...

Richard Ingrams: The author who saw Ireland change utterly

when i first went to ireland in 1962, it seemed like a foreign country – more foreign than france, even though the inhabitants spoke the sam...

Richard Ingrams: The Gospels as journalism

hearing the traditional easter gospel reading (john 20) always reminds me of graham greene’s reaction to it – that it is reportage, a factua...

Holiness is not to be sneered at

there is something about a great many saints that annoys and even angers some people. thus the recent canonisation of mother teresa revived ...

Holiness is not to be sneered at

Why do critics spend so much time scolding the saintly?

Why they hated Brian Sewell

it was easy for the many people who didn’t approve of brian sewell to dismiss him as a comic figure because he spoke in that funny voice. ye...

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