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The authorized biography of Malcolm Muggeridge, who grew from a young idealist into a controversial journalist to "St. Mugg," a devout evangelical Christian known publicly as the voice of orthodoxy.
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Muggeridge was always a controversial figure who liked to go against the crowd. He was in his element when elegantly knocking or deriding someone or something, often biting the hand that fed him (‘reviling the medium that fed him’), e.g. BBC and Guardian. Even his inlaws, the Webbs, came in for ridicule. The Guardian and its followers of course never forgave him for opposing their line on Soviet Russia at the time of Stalin. This, in my opinion, was Muggeridge’s finest hour, when he was brave en
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'The appeal of a Muggeridge—“Saint Mugg,” as encomiasts and scoffers combined to call him after he junked agnosticism—might well be fully graspable only by those old enough to remember his strenuously iconoclastic lecture tours and TV talking-head role. Perhaps, in that most vexing of clichés, “you just had to be there.”'
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Ingrams served his National Service as a Private in the Royal Army Service Corps, but failed to gain a commission and joined the satirical publication Private Eye in 1962. In the same year Ingrams married Mary Morgan.
The following year Richard Ingrams became editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye - a post he retained until 1986.
He is now editor of The Oldie magazine.
The following year Richard Ingrams became editor of the satirical magazine Private Eye - a post he retained until 1986.
He is now editor of The Oldie magazine.
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