Richard Ingrams was one of the founders of ‘Private Eye’ and was its editor for many years, until he went on to found and edit ‘The Oldie’. His column in the Observer is considered required reading.

‘This is a wonderful portrait of a great Englishman…Richard Ingrams’s biography does a fantastic job of fleshing out this bold, bacon-eating, bloody-minded and often very funny writer.’ Independent on Sunday‘The publicity hype – “a perfect match of author and subject” – really is spot-on. Both are supreme satirists, masters of the vituperative arts and excellent writers of plain, vigorous English.’ Mail on Sunday‘It is a packed and combative life, and Richard Ingrams, who knows all about people trying to silence you with libel writs, is the ideal man to write it. He does so spiritedly and entertainingly.’ Daily Mail‘CK Chesterton remarked: “The man who does not find one of Cobbett's books amusing is doomed to find every book dull.” The same applies to anyone who reads this entertaining biography.’ Independent‘There have been many biographies of Cobbett but the story is a good one, full of adventures, and few can have told it with the succinctness of Ingrams.’ Guardian‘Cheerful and enthusiastic…an entertaining read. Ingrams…shows us a man of quite extraordinary passion, energy and principle.’ Daily Telegraph

Richard Ingrams was one of the founders of ‘Private Eye’ and was its editor for many years, until he went on to found and edit ‘The Oldie’. His column in the Observer is considered required reading.

‘This is a wonderful portrait of a great Englishman…Richard Ingrams’s biography does a fantastic job of fleshing out this bold, bacon-eating, bloody-minded and often very funny writer.’ Independent on Sunday‘The publicity hype – “a perfect match of author and subject” – really is spot-on. Both are supreme satirists, masters of the vituperative arts and excellent writers of plain, vigorous English.’ Mail on Sunday‘It is a packed and combative life, and Richard Ingrams, who knows all about people trying to silence you with libel writs, is the ideal man to write it. He does so spiritedly and entertainingly.’ Daily Mail‘CK Chesterton remarked: “The man who does not find one of Cobbett's books amusing is doomed to find every book dull.” The same applies to anyone who reads this entertaining biography.’ Independent‘There have been many biographies of Cobbett but the story is a good one, full of adventures, and few can have told it with the succinctness of Ingrams.’ Guardian‘Cheerful and enthusiastic…an entertaining read. Ingrams…shows us a man of quite extraordinary passion, energy and principle.’ Daily Telegraph

Richard Ingrams was one of the founders of ‘Private Eye’ and was its editor for many years, until he went on to found and edit ‘The Oldie’. His column in the Observer is considered required reading.

‘This is a wonderful portrait of a great Englishman…Richard Ingrams’s biography does a fantastic job of fleshing out this bold, bacon-eating, bloody-minded and often very funny writer.’ Independent on Sunday‘The publicity hype – “a perfect match of author and subject” – really is spot-on. Both are supreme satirists, masters of the vituperative arts and excellent writers of plain, vigorous English.’ Mail on Sunday‘It is a packed and combative life, and Richard Ingrams, who knows all about people trying to silence you with libel writs, is the ideal man to write it. He does so spiritedly and entertainingly.’ Daily Mail‘CK Chesterton remarked: “The man who does not find one of Cobbett's books amusing is doomed to find every book dull.” The same applies to anyone who reads this entertaining biography.’ Independent‘There have been many biographies of Cobbett but the story is a good one, full of adventures, and few can have told it with the succinctness of Ingrams.’ Guardian‘Cheerful and enthusiastic…an entertaining read. Ingrams…shows us a man of quite extraordinary passion, energy and principle.’ Daily Telegraph