Oliver Pritchett



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Full name: Oliver Pritchett

Area of interest: Humour and Satire

Journals/Organisation: The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:oliver.pritchett@telegraph.co.uk oliver.pritchett@telegraph.co.uk]

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Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/oliverpritchett

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Viewpoints/Insight: My father's life is now an open book; Rejoice, for verily, this is my column

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Video: BBC Radio 4's 'Frontrow': John Wilson speaks to Jeremy Treglown and V.S. Pritchett's son Oliver about the biography of V S Pritchett, who is surprised by some of the book's revelations about his father (listen)

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Other: Son of writer V. S. Pritchett, married to author Joan Pritchett, father of cartoonist Matt Pritchett and writer/filmmaker Georgia Pritchett. 

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Remit/Info: Humour and Satire

Section: Features / Comment

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Average length: 600/650 words



Articles:

 * Estate agents love a Mills & Housing Boom - Estate agents are a soppy lot. They are all yearning for another royal wedding or another baby prince or princess, because an outbreak of cooing does wonders for house prices. - 2nd July 2017
 * Parents are banking on some good returns - Support from the Bank of Mum and Dad to help young people move up the property ladder will be part of more than a quarter of all property transactions in 2017, a new report says - 7th May 2017
 * A modest proposal for improving United Airlines' PR - Airlines have been getting bad publicity lately, with stories of general bossiness, over-booking, skimping on the usual courtesies and not even trying to come up with a decent meal, but selling us sandwiches instead – if they haven’t run out. - 16th April 2017
 * Forget the pursuit of happiness, we should all make time for our inner grouch - Max Strom, described as a happiness guru, said last week that employees should be allowed to go outside for a number of “breathing breaks” throughout the day - 26th March 2017
 * Never mess with the family from The Laurels  - The name of the property you move into can affect your character - 5th March 2017
 * A Prada pointer is the perfect pedigree chum  - Apparently, French bulldogs are popular because so many celebrities choose to own them. - 19th February 2017
 * Welcome to the Great NHS Experience. Your druid surgeons await you - Druid-style surgeons await among the ancient, sacred stones - 12th February 2017
 * Britain is succumbing to a plague of fake committees. I blame the chair and shiny table lobby - House of Commons committee is investigating fake news, we are told. It would be better if someone investigated the scourge of fake committees taking over this country - 5th February 2017
 * After freerunning, let’s recognise these sports... - Parkour, or freerunning, is now officially recognised in the UK as a sport - 15th January 2017
 * Rear ends of pantomime horses are kicking up - This is turning out to be the restive season. Everywhere we look there are strikes or threats of strikes - 17th December
 * What a British oath of allegiance would really sound like - I hereby pledge never to believe weather forecasts, nor walk on the grass - 10th December 2016
 * Traditional British illnesses are under threat from flamboyant foreign maladies - Forget about passports: there is a simpler way of ensuring that people coming from abroad don’t take advantage of our National Health Service without paying for it. - 27th November 2016
 * Black Friday isn't this season's only hullabaloo. We’re expecting a fracas on Shocking Pink Tuesday - Puce Monday (November 28) is the official start day for postmen to go on their rounds wearing Santa hats - 20th November 2016
 * From frowning doctors to the judge's pause on talent shows, quantitative uneasing makes the world go round - 5th November 2016
 * Some etiquette points for viewing a Royal series - 30th October 2016
 * How you'll know if you've caught xenophobia - 23rd October 2016
 * The crisis industry has reached a tipping point - 25th September 2016
 * Facebook likes, bun-baking, and Archers literacy: what Britain's new immigration system could look like - 11th September 2016
 * Turn yourself into a sandwich for better health - 4th September 2016
 * Time for the speaking clock to start cold-calling - 28th August 2016
 * These new-fangled 'books' are enslaving our brains - 21st August 2016
 * Guacamole to nuts: the hedonistic life of germs - 14th August
 * Revealed: the names in Juncker’s little black book of enemies - 7th August
 * Condiments are getting politicians in a pickle - 31st July 2016
 * BFG means lots of scrumdiddlyumptious things - 24th July 2016
 * I haven’t watched House of Thrones, either - 17th July 2016
 * Birds, beetles and weather aside, who'll watch the watchers? - 10th July 2016
 * Someone needs to save the silly season - so it might as well be me - 2nd July
 * A wonderful world of tie-breaks and tea breaks  - 25th June
 * No sense or sensibility from the two Mr Darcys - 19th June 2016
 * Loony literary festivals, Ivan the Terrible faces MPs, and what's that I hear behind me? - 12th June 2016
 * We’ve had love triangles ever since Pythagoras - 29th May 2016
 * Freddie the Wonder Horse is going for Brexit - 21st May 2016
 * Spoonfeeding will survive the death of cutlery - 15th May 2016
 * Top tips to be the perfect party bore! - 1st May 2016
 * What if I don't want to be joyful and sociable while on a hike? - 23rd April 2016
 * How to remain youthful – my exclusive tips  - 10th April 2016
 * Why stop at kale when a duck wants its dinner?  - 3rd April 2016
 * Chutney is the gift that goes on being given - No one eats it, no one likes it - yet we go on giving it away at Christmas. Why? - 26th March 2016
 * A bucket list? I’m too old for this sort of thing - Don't waste time climbing Everest. Go see the wonderful creatures hiding in Britain's landscape - 20th March 2016
 * Forgive me father, I have doubts about the Sunday customer service - Now we are invited to shop on Sundays, who among us can deny they've been tempted to go to church instead? - 12th March 2016
 * Must we get Kindles with our Amazon groceries? - Amazon does everything now. Everything. Click on it and it will come - 5th March 2016
 * I’ll man the barricades if they ditch Pythagoras - Lily Allen is wrong about the value of Pythagoras: there is a special pleasure in coming across things we forgot we knew - 14th February 2016
 * Sean Penn and El Chapo? Try Stanley and Livingstone - The Hollywood actor is not the first man to meet a criminal mastermind. Wasn't Dr Livingstone in search of a suspicious sounding source? - 7th February 2016
 * I fear the humble sausage could lead us to war - Michael McFeat, from Perthshire, has been arrested under Kyrgyzstan race-hate laws for his views on sausages. These food wars could spin out of control - 9th January 2016
 * Benedict Cumberbatch's Father Christmas letter: Santa responds - The Sherlock actor has written a letter to Father Christmas pleading for the children. Here, St Nick responds - 13th December 2015
 * King Arthur wasn't the only publicity stunt being kicked around Glastonbury's cloisters - The monks really wanted to host the Glastonbury Plainsong Festival in a nearby muddy field - 29th November 2015
 * Let's ban brunch and bring back the surly British breakfast - I'm fed up with the enforced, roaring jollity that goes on until lunchtime and into the early afternoon - 1st November 2015
 * Good manners aren’t old hat: The simple rules to follow for correct headwear etiquette - Country life is wrong about the decline of hat etiquette in modern Britain. It is stronger than ever - 25th October 2015
 * Three cheers for train wine - What if every train had a sommelier? - 18th October 2015
 * What next for reality TV? 'Extreme Origami'? - As a new television series follows the daily lives of a bunch of pensioners, Oliver Pritchett imagines what else desperate producers could turn their attentions to... - 11th October 2015
 * Men have a right to be boring - Idle indulgent chat is a delight. Plus bad advice, worse directions and... summer substitutes - 9th August 2015
 * Disobey these automated voices at your peril - Who are these disembodied voices that continually boss us around? - 2nd August 2015
 * I love a rainy British summer - It just occurred to me... our grim and sodden summers should be celebrated and treasured - 9th July 2013
 * Is that the best you can come up with? - It just occurred to me... the poor quality of British excuses is a cause for concern - 27th May 2013
 * You’ll never hear a silent breakfast in my house - For my wife and I the first meal is all toast and telepathy, the joy of unfinished sentences and bonding over elliptical remarks - 9th january 2013
 * Sunday Telegraph Pantomime: Leveson In Wonderland - The World’s First Independently Regulated Pantomine - 23rd December 2012
 * Three jeers for the round robin! - The much-derided practice of including family newsletters with Christmas cards is a ritual to be proud of - 18th December 2012
 * The prince’s seven eggs are a myth – and so is my duel - It's not just the prince who is debunking wild rumours - and shouldn't we answer his own frequently asked questions? - 14th November 2012
 * Forget apps and smartphones - I just want to make calls - A fumble-proof phone aimed at the over-75s couldn't be simpler - 8th November 2012
 * Rampaging children have become the new pub bores - Now children are allowed in pubs, David Cameron and Boris Johnson would have been better off meeting in the car park - 3rd October 2012
 * You’re sacked! And thank you for taking it so well... - Reshuffles can be a savage business, but let's not make them unpleasant, shall we? - 4th September 2012
 * I want compensation for my vital Olympic role - Following the examples set by RMT and Unite, I propose £500 for all over-60s - 12th June 2012
 * It’s official: hail will no longer be the size of golf balls - A search for more meaningful descriptions of the weather is long overdue - 23rd May 2012
 * My wife and I rejoice when it rains in Biarritz - A wet holiday four years ago is the yardstick by which we now measure all pluvial activity - 30th April 2012
 * Horsegate: My hacking memories, by Raisa the horse - Adventures with Rebekah, David, the Met police and the Chipping Norton set, as told to Oliver Pritchett - 4th March 2012
 * must have babes and baseball caps'' - The threat to Francis Drake's favourite bowling green should rouse the sport from its stupor - 4th March 2011
 * 70, I can't wait to have my happiest years'' - Grumpiness is one of the great pleasures of life, which explains why we get happier as we age - 23rd February 2010
 * clarifications'' - It is the policy of this column to correct all errors - but not immediately. After writing in The Sunday Telegraph for 30 years, I believe this would be a good moment to acknowledge a few minor slips - 12th October 2008 (Final column)
 * blood in my house mouse'' - the local Vermin Archives - 5th October 2008
 * hole in the road'' - My Big Prang Theory - 28th September 2008
 * - diary of the final frontier'' - the movers and shakers of the new social space - 14th September 2008
 * characters in search of room service'' - we are about to see the arrival of a new genre - after Chick Lit, it will be Check-In Lit - 7th September 2008
 * column may cause dizziness'' - Dream (the Department for the Regulation and Evaluation of Acronyms in Medicine) - 31st August 2008
 * Man is blowin' in the wind'' - before he took up music, Dylan was actually the chairman of a major company quoted on the Stock Exchange. I've found one of his speeches to shareholders at an AGM - 24th August 2008
 * go go Tessa Jowell!'' - the 2012 Cheer Squad - 17th August 2008
 * tale told by a menacing alien life-form'' - Daleks in Shakespeare - 10th August 2008

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Remit/Info: Humour and Satire

Section: News

Role: Columnist

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Email: [mailto:oliver.pritchett@telegraph.co.uk oliver.pritchett@telegraph.co.uk]

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Website: www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/oliverpritchett

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Articles:

 * I miss the builders when they're gone - It just occurred to me...there’s a hole in my life when the builders leave - 19th October 2012
 * If you want to marry Prince Harry, you’ll need a head for heights - Admiring the Borneo rainforest must be an infinitely worse ordeal that having intrusive photographs published in a rubbishy magazine - 18th September 2012
 * When a trip to the barber’s leads to razed eyebrows - A cure for baldness will be useless when so many men are shaving their heads - 21st August 2012
 * New parlour game makes its mark on over-70s - Lady Steel's tattoo leads the way for the bolder senior citizen - 24th July 2012
 * The old boys get the cane at our prep school reunion - How we 60-year-old boys chattered happily away about our school days - 14th May 2012
 * We don't want politicians to feel our pain - It could be the Prime Minister's greatest strength to be out of touch - 3rd April 2012
 * 'research’ that never goes without a hiccup'' - I can’t help worrying about the mental satisfaction of people who carry out scientific surveys - 13th March 2012



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