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Author: Peter Oborne
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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.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – An Unintelligent Intervention
Before Donald Trump launched his illegal attack on Iran, Sir John Sawers, former head of MI6, popped up on the Today programme to prod him into action.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – End of the Order
Last month in Sarajevo, I asked a guide to take me to the street corner where Gavrilo Princip (pictured) ignited the First World War by shooting dead Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – Return of the Oligarchs
Twenty years ago, the political philosopher David Marquand wrote his far-sighted tract Decline of the Public. Reading it today is uncanny because it predicted with such clarity and understated intellectual power the course of British politics over the last two decades.
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Peter Oborne’s Diary – The Sycophants
You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to know that the Trump presidency would lead to calamity. All you needed to do was read his speeches and study his record. It was all there – including the catastrophic tariffs. Yet, Britain’s most famous newspapers, along with two former prime ministers, hailed him as world saviour.
