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Author: Peter Oborne
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Labour Lessons
Obituaries of the economic historian Robert Skidelsky, who died in April, have praised his monumental three-volume life of John Maynard Keynes. But none paid much attention to a rather more original and important book that Skidelsky wrote as a struggling graduate at Nuffield College, Oxford.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Emperor Trump
Suetonius, who served as personal secretary to Emperor Hadrian, enjoyed privileged access to the imperial archive when he researched The Lives of the Caesars.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Nothing to Celebrate
Three months remain before the United States celebrates a historic milestone: the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Fatal Choice
It is a simple matter to identify the moment when it went wrong for Keir Starmer.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Telling Silence
The collapse of mass party membership and the long assault on trade unions have left both the Conservatives and Labour hopelessly dependent on donor cash.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – A Dangerous Sponsor
It is becoming hard to avoid the conclusion that the United Kingdom is complicit in two ongoing genocides: Sudan as well as Gaza
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Merger and Assignations
Rather than challenge a morally corrupt system, Keir Starmer has chosen to become part of it
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Leper in the Commons
When I was appointed political correspondent of the Evening Standard in the early 1990s, I knew very little about the House of Commons and urgently needed to remedy my lack of knowledge.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – History Lessons
It is exactly 50 years since I went up to university to read history. Almost everything I was taught has turned out to be wrong.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – An Annual Ritual
Now here we are playing cricket in the south west – Morgan McSweeney territory. The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff is less well-known here than his father, Tim, a Cork-based accountant whose firm makes a fortune housing asylum seekers.
