The Oldie Magazine

A human Calling


‘We are summoned to something other than just naked opposition and rivalry. We are summoned to do something together within a world of which we are part.
What might it be to think of a model where the well-being of the human community did not depend entirely on winners and losers.’

Portrait of Rowan Williams taken for The Oldie Magazine

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Portrait of Rowan Williams © Neil Spence 2026

Tony Adams on My Last Drink

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After England were knocked out of Euro 96, Tony Adams, the Arsenal and England captain, drowned his sorrows on an epic scale.

In this month’s Oldie magazine, former England captain, Tony Adams writes an emotional and incredibly personal account of his struggle with alcoholism. The last drink ‘… if you can’t remember your last drink, you haven’t had it.’

Photograph of Tony Adams © Neil Spence 2026 / Text © The Oldie Magazine / Tony Adams

Portrait photograph of British art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Andrew Graham-Dixon on the trail of the great Dutch painter Vermeer asking why. Why did he paint his pictures and what did they mean? The answers he discovered reveals all previous assumptions about the artist to be wrong…

 Vermeer, A Life Lost and Found

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Portrait of Andrew Graham-Dixon © Neil Spence 2026

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