Peter Oborne



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Full name: Peter Alan Oborne

Area of interest: Politics, World Affairs, Middle East

Journals/Organisation: Daily Mail | The Spectator

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Biography:
About: Columnist and author particularly known for acerbic commentary on the hypocrisy and apparent mendacity of contemporary politicians

Education: Sherborne School; Cambridge University: History

Career: Was the political editor of the Spectator before joining the Daily Mail as chief political commentator, then the Telegraph in 2010

Current position/role: Chief political commentator for The Daily Telegraph


 * also writes/has written for: Spectator: contributing editor (former political editor)

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Other activities: author

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Viewpoints/Insight: Interview by James Silver - 30th October 2006

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Video:
 * Channel 4 Dispatches: Tabloids and Telephone Hacking broadcast on the day Andy Coulson resigned as Conservative Party communications director (22nd January 2011)
 * Presenter on Radio 4's Week in Westminster
 * Channel 4 Dispatches: War on Terror It Shouldn't Happen To A Muslim "...investigates whether the 7/7 London Bombings and the fear of terrorism has fuelled the rise of violence, intolerance and hatred against British Muslims" (7th July 2008)
 * Narrator and co-producer: Not Cricket: The Basil d'Oliveira Conspiracy Channel 4 (2004)
 * IMDb

Controversy/Criticism:
 * Peter Oborne attacks BBC and FT for pro-euro bias, Telegraph man points finger at euro progagandists – and warns radio listeners to avoid ‘Y Euros’ like the plague, The First Post, 23rd September 2011


 * wrote a highly critical biography of Alastair Campbell
 * a vocal critic of Robert Mugabe, see pamphlet: A moral duty to act there OCLC59335070

Awards/Honours: won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year (2004) for his book on the Basil D'Oliveira affair

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Books & Debate:

 * Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the rise of the media class (1999) OCLC42039875
 * Basil D'Oliveira: cricket and conspiracy: the untold story (2004) OCLC56203243
 * The rise of political lying (2005) OCLC61684499
 * The use and abuse of terror: the construction of a false narrative on the domestic terror threat (2006) OCLC122952804
 * The triumph of the political class (2007) OCLC137313250

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Current debate:The 2009 Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture: 'The Problem of Integrity in Modern Politics' (download mp3 here), 4th March 2009 - see also Postmodernism section, Wikipedia and politico-media complex



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Articles: 2016

 *  I admire him, but with these rancid attacks on Brexit, John Major has stooped lower than any former PM - Major is known to blame the disloyalty of the Conservative Right-wing, and Eurosceptics opposed to his support for the 1992 Maastricht Treaty for wrecking his entire premiership - 8th June
 * Deafening silence of Theresa May: As Britain is hit by a series of immigration crises, where on earth is the home secretary? - The Home Secretary, who normally laps up the limelight, seems to have gone AWOL as the country debates the EU referendum. This is a shameful abrogation of duty - 3rd June
 * Comrade Corbyn's shameful silence on Europe - With regards to policy, Jeremy Corbyn has failed in his promise and diverged much less than expected from the Blairites - 28th May


 * Well done, Boris Johnson - but now watch your back after David Cameron's vicious Commons statement - Whenever the leading members of the Tory and Labour parties agree on a vital national issue in peacetime, history warns us to be very wary - 24th February

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Articles: 2015

 * From hubris to hell - In a courageous dispatch, PETER OBORNE reports from the Libyan city where Cameron was hailed as a saviour for toppling Gaddafi. He found bloody anarchy... and fanatics now bent on bringing carnage to the West - 24th December

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Articles: 2010

 * your honeymoon chaps, next year you'll be reviled'' - David Cameron had better enjoy his popularity while it lasts - for by this time next year he will be running one of the most hated and reviled Governments Britain has ever known - 24th July
 * a day goes by without the Coalition breaking election pledges. They could TRULY be Blair's heirs'' - Barely ten weeks ago David Cameron and Nick Clegg promised to bring a new integrity into British government - 33nd July
 * Vince Cable has positioned himself as the Coalition's rebel leader'' - Two months after the General Election and it has become stunningly clear that David Cameron means to lead a radical and ambitious government - 16th July
 * Miliband and six lies on torture'' - 16th July
 * cynical game of treachery and deceit '' - Under AV, governments will cease to be decided by the democratic vote of the British people - but by secret deals struck behind the scenes between members of the Westminster political elite - 13th July
 * Coalition's fatal flaw'' - both leaders have launched coups d'etat against their own parties - 9th July
 * I know the exact date the coalition will collapse...'' - With every week that passes, the life expectancy of David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s coalition government grows shorter - 5th July



Articles: 2009

 * Cameron has only himself to blame for this mess on Europe - A shabby deal with the Sun and internal wrangling over the Lisbon treaty mean that the Tories still have one big Euro-headache - The Observer, 1st November
 * Did Blair betray Britain for years in his bid to become EU president? - A new type of career politician is beginning to emerge: one who no longer sees 10 Downing Street as an end in itself, but rather as a stepping stone for higher things - 30th October
 * Is David Cameron making the same catastrophic mistake as Iain Duncan Smith? - The Conservative Party has been paying the political price ever since its then leader threw his political weight behind the invasion of Iraq seven years ago - 23rd October
 * Week the tectonic plates of politics shifted - There was not a single instance of class-based rhetoric at the Conservative conference, in contrast to the many spiteful attacks on Tory 'toffs' at the Labour conference - 10th October
 * An utterly boring speech but what a thrilling message - David Cameron yesterday delivered the most boring party conference speech in recent political history. No jokes, no drama and not a single new policy announcement of the slightest importance - 8th October
 * Enough poison about the Human Rights Act. It is Churchill's legacy - Instead of binning this maligned legislation, David Cameron should embrace it. It is thoroughly Conservative – our own bill of rights - The Guardian, 5th October
 * The lesson David Cameron can learn from Margaret Thatcher - Exactly 31 years ago this weekend Margaret Thatcher, the 52-year-old leader of the Opposition, was preparing to make her journey to the annual Conservative Party conference in Blackpool - 2nd October
 * BAE are targets of a deeply political vendetta - Fifty years ago Britain could still boast a magnificent and proud industrial base, but today we only have two truly world class manufacturing giants - 2nd October
 * Brown chose to save his own skin - not rescue Britain - At a moment of grave economic crisis on October 3, 1978, Jim Callaghan gave what would turn out to be his final speech to a Labour conference as prime minister - 29th September
 * The illegal housekeeper, a baroness on the brink and why Labour is incapable of cleaning up British politics - There are two basic codes of morality. The first is observed by the vast majority of the population who do their best to obey the law, pay their taxes, to tell the truth and generally observe the conventions of decent society - 25th September
 * By George! How Osborne turned from being a widely mocked liability into the visionary who could rescue Britain PLC - When the economic crisis of the Seventies was at its darkest, the Conservative thinker and politician Sir Keith Joseph stepped forward with a series of great speeches that reshaped British history - 18th September
 * Tony Cameron! Why the Tory leader will be doomed if, like Blair, he tries to be all things to all men - A few days before the 1997 General Election, the historical novelist and political commentator Robert Harris published a penetrating and farsighted study of Tony Blair's character as Opposition leader - 12th September
 * Brown's evasiveness over Lockerbie raises the question: Can he last until the Election? - Prime Ministers fall into three categories. There are the truly exceptional individuals with the courage and the indomitable will to shape history - 5th September
 * A blonde with a contempt for decency and how cynical, grubby and greedy MPs sabotaged moves to clean up Parliament - Fewer than three months have passed since British politics was convulsed by one of the greatest scandals ever to hit Westminster - 24th July
 * Has David Cameron the integrity to derail 'President' Blair's Euro bandwagon? - Tony Blair's ambition to be President of Europe dates back at least ten years. I can remember the possibility first being discussed among his inner circle not long after he became prime minister - 17th July
 * Amoral spiv or traditional Tory? Will the REAL Cameron stand up - For anyone who wants to know what kind of Prime Minister David Cameron would make, they need to understand that there are two very different sides to his political personality - 10th July
 * The child murder epidemic: Deaths as shocking and avoidable as Baby P's happen every single week - Sadly, there was nothing out of the ordinary about the ordeal of Baby P. Deaths every bit as terrible take place nearly every week in this country, largely unnoticed - 10th July
 * Our Right Honorable liars and the debauching of democracy - There is an long-held convention that MPs are men and women of honour and integrity who would never lie or mislead the House of Commons - 3rd July
 * This reveals both moral and economic bankruptcy - Thirty years ago, the Labour Prime Minister Jim Callaghan found himself in almost exactly the same predicament Gordon Brown does today - 30th June
 * Why David Cameron won't sack these expenses cheats - The death of the singer Michael Jackson could scarcely have come at a better time for Gordon Brown - 27th June
 * Labour's sinister revolution will tear Britain's 700-year-old constitution to shreds in weeks - Yesterday was perhaps the darkest day in the 700-year-old history of the British Parliament. This magnificent institution on the banks of the River Thames, the scene of so many of the greatest episodes in our national life, suffered two hammer blows - 23rd June
 * Europe and a squalid Blair, Cameron pact that could tear the Tories apart again - More than 12 years have passed since the last Tory government, fatally split over Europe and brought low by sleaze, was driven from office - 19th June
 * Most candidates have had their hands in the till - this grubby race to become Speaker reveals MPs have learnt nothing - Only a few weeks have passed since the revelations about MPs' systematic thievery of taxpayers' money, which led to an explosion of public fury, a number of hasty resignations and the enforced departure of the Commons Speaker Michael Martin - 13th June
 * How a Labour vacuum let in the bigots - The notorious fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, campaigning at the height of the Great Depression of the 1930s, never achieved a fraction of the electoral success the BNP achieved yesterday - 9th June
 * Riven by hatreds, how can they hope to govern? - Gordon Brown has arguably saved his skin thanks to last Friday's Cabinet reshuffle - but one urgent question remains - 7th June
 * Broken and compromised, Brown is the prisoner of his Cabinet and his sleazy Chancellor - Gordon Brown ensured his short-term survival as Prime Minister yesterday - but he has paid a terrible price - 6th June
 * The day that Susan Boyle rang Gordon to check on his health - Last weekend, in a lame attempt to show he was in touch with the public mood, Gordon Brown rang up The Priory health clinic to ask about the condition of Britain's Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle, who had been taken there suffering from a breakdown - 4th June
 * Assassins, chaos and Gordon Brown's nightmare - Two years ago, in the dying days of the Blair Government, a Cabinet minister took me aside and despairingly confided that Gordon Brown was not up to the task of being Prime Minister - 3rd June
 * Operation panic: Plot to ditch Brown for Alan Johnson...and a shotgun wedding with the LibDems - Were it not for the shameful scandal of MPs' expenses, there would be only one topic dominating political discourse this weekend: the real and growing threat to Gordon Brown's leadership after next week's elections - 29th May
 * New Labour's victims are Middle Britons who obey the law, work long hours and are taxed almost to extinction. This is plain wrong - There are just two categories of Briton who have done well out of New Labour. The first, it goes without saying, is the very rich - 28th May
 * The man who must take the blame for this culture of lies and corruption - When a very large bomb detonates in a small space, it causes chaos and confusion - 22nd May
 * So will the frauds and charlatans follow suit? - To believe that yesterday's resignation of the Speaker Martin means that the expenses scandal that has convulsed the House of Commons is over would be a terrible mistake - 19th May
 * If he goes down, will he take Brown down with him? - Useless, arrogant and morally corrupt, it is now certain that the disgraced Speaker will be forced to quit. But one burning question remains: will Michael Martin bring down the Prime Minister and perhaps the Government with him? - 19th May *If only we could have Saint Vince for PM - He claimed next to nothing, bought no flats, stole none of your money (and got it dead right on the economy). If only we could have the Lib Dems' Vince Cable to replace Gordon Brown - 15th May
 * Throwing out this greedy and arrogant man won't solve all our problems - but it would be a start - Yesterday afternoon, Speaker Martin, making a speech for the first time since the expenses scandal broke, ought to have done three things - 11th May
 * Make them pay the money back, sack the spivs who let them get away with it - and put the thieves on trial - Ever since Parliament first met beside the Thames more than 700 years ago it has been inspired by one very powerful and wonderful idea: disinterested public service - 8th May
 * Innocent victims of a bloodbath - at least George Bush never started a Pakistani civil war - Last week, the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton read the riot act to Pakistan President Ali Zardari - 6th May
 * PM's enemies scent blood and they're circling for the kill - When prime ministers fail, it is often a single event which causes them to lose authority - 3rd May
 * So, who will hand Brown the loaded revolver and bottle of whisky? - Since 1945, three Prime Ministers have self-destructed while in office, leading to a paralysis in the running of the country. Sadly, Britain has just embarked on yet another of these rudderless periods - 1st May
 * Back to the dark ages: How life in Kabul is still punctuated with shootings, assassinations, kidnappings and bombings - Muhammed Wahaaj, an Afghan doctor, was brutally kidnapped on his way home from work by bandits posing as intelligence officers - 28th April
 * Thieving MPs and why I was wrong... Brown will NEVER stop this culture of corruption - When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister he promised to end the squalor, sleaze and dreadful culture of cronyism that disfigured Tony Blair’s government - 24th April
 * Credit crunch budget 2009: This bogus and dishonest mix was not a Budget for Britain but a desperate bid to cling to power - 23rd April
 * A cynical scheme to hoodwink the voters - Many will instinctively welcome Gordon Brown's announcement last night that he is to impose a tough new system of MPs' expenses - 22nd April
 * This is a fight to the death - This venomous war of smear and counter-smear has the potential to destroy Gordon Brown's government - 20th April
 * The Tories must avoid the cult of the celebrity prime minister - Parliamentary democracy has been supplanted at Westminster by a regime of media hype, spin doctors and skulduggery - The Observer, 19th April
 * At last, Gordon Brown's poodle turns on his master - Chancellor Alistair Darling is one of the nicest men in the Labour Government. He and his wife, Maggie, have turned 11 Downing Street into a very warm, pleasant and happy place - 17th April
 * The Prime Minister is up to his neck in this squalid affair. But the real villain is Alastair Campbell - On becoming Prime Minister almost two years ago Gordon Brown pledged a new and more decent kind of politics - 13th April
 * Sorry, but a Tory election victory is far from certain - At the Conservative spring conference at Cheltenham in two weeks' time, David Cameron is due to make his most important speech so far this year - 10th April
 * How Ireland became an economic basket-case (...and the lessons for Britain) - Just two years ago, the Republic of Ireland was universally seen as one of the most dynamic economies in the world - 9th April
 * Hubris, hoopla and claims that were false, cynical and very, very dangerous - Judging by yesterday's headlines, the Prime Minister pulled off an audacious triumph at this week's London G20 summit - 3rd April
 * Masterly diary of a minister low in rank, high in wit - Major political diaries tend to be written by minor politicians. They see events in a clearer light and have more time to think - 3rd April
 * Disloyalty. Humiliation. The week that Brown's grand vision was brutally shattered - For the past three months, Gordon Brown has truly cared about only one event: the G20 economic summit he will host in London next week - 27th March
 * How a bitter war between the Bank of England and No10 could decide if Britain has to be bailed out by the IMF again - Over the past few months, Gordon Brown has used two principal policies, both highly controversial, to try to lift Britain out of the economic slump - 13th March
 * Toughened by tragedy, has David Cameron now the courage to tell voters the truth? - David Cameron's leadership of the Conservative Party can be divided into two periods... - 7th March
 * Speaking truth in power - The bravest but most necessary change Cameron should make is to break with New Labour's postmodern politics of spin - The Guardian, 4th March *Torture, and why the Blair years will be judged some of the most morally squalid in our history - When Tony Blair came to power 12 years ago, he promised to make Britain a better place - 27th February
 * Treachery, sleaze and a Prime Minister in denial. This is a Government in collapse - The symptoms are always the same when governments break down: sleaze takes hold, the ambitious defect, ministers turn disloyal, connection with reality gets lost and it becomes a matter of hanging on pointlessly to the end - 20th February
 * Borrowing to save the economy is like trying to sober up a drunk by giving him a large whisky - Hard though it is to believe, Chancellor Alistair Darling still claims that borrowing is under control, while Gordon Brown continues to insist that the British economy is built on ‘sound fundamentals’ - 20th February
 * Vile torture. British agents. And questions Miliband must answer - When New Labour came to power 12 years ago, Tony Blair announced an ‘ethical’ foreign policy which, so he claimed, would turn Britain into a shining example of decency and high morality around the world - 19th February
 * The crony with a gift for disaster - The scene is a glorious sunny day in July, and Lloyds TSB chairman Sir Victor Blank is in his element - 15th February
 * Despite that cover-up by establishment stooges, Ms Smith is guilty of thievery (and I dare her to sue me) - My brother has a house in Wiltshire where his family lives, where his social life is based and where his children go to school... - 13th February
 * I pray Ed Balls is wrong but fear he's right: This could be worse than the Great Depression - Most Labour politicians possess only the cloudiest and most naive understanding of how the British economy really works - 10th February
 * Anyone else would be sent to jail - The revelations concerning Home Secretary Jacqui Smith come as another jolting reminder that far too many British MPs are, quite simply, corrupt - 8th February
 * Rich men, dodgy money and the banana skin that could stop Cameron reaching No. 10 - Dances and balls are normally very showy affairs and the guests are expected to dress up and enjoy being on public display - 6th February
 * A conspiracy that is as foul as it gets - The Foreign Secretary's very public denunciation of George W Bush's so-called war on terror may be exploding in his face - 5th February
 * The boast that shows the ignorance of Mandy ‘Antoinette’ - When Gordon Brown brought Peter Mandelson home from Brussels three months ago and appointed him Business Secretary, the move was hailed as a masterstroke - 1st February
 * Betrayal of our finest and why Britain must not become Obama's poodle - Over recent months it has been a convention for Gordon Brown, if there have been British fatalities in the war in Afghanistan, to begin Prime Minister's Question Time by reading out the victims' names... - 30th January
 * Five years on from Hutton and we STILL haven't been told the truth about the war based on lies - Yesterday marked a sombre and important anniversary. A full five years have passed since the Hutton Report sensationally acquitted Tony Blair and his senior advisers of any wrongdoing in the death of Dr David Kelly - 28th January
 * For centuries the Lords has been a beacon of integrity. Now it is a byword for sleaze. This is Blair's REAL legacy - The 'Lords-for-hire’ affair is threatening to become one of British politics’ worst corruption scandals since the end of World War II - 27th January
 * 'Lords for Hire': Brown must act now to stop the rot - Almost 15 years ago, the Conservative government was shamefully embroiled in the cash-for-questions scandal - 25th January
 * Obduracy, incompetence and the week I became convinced Britain faces national bankruptcy - There can come a time in the life span of a government when it suddenly loses its authority - 23rd January
 * No wonder MPs don't want us to see their expenses - a lot of them are just plain criminal - Two years ago, when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister, he pledged to bring to an end the dishonesty, greed and moral squalor of the Blair years - 22nd January
 * We’re a nation on the brink of going bankrupt - All hopes of Gordon Brown managing to save the world with October's great banking bail-out have proved tragically misguided - 18th January
 * Why should bailed-out bank bosses receive obscene salaries (and bonuses!) at our expense? - The average pay of a civil servant stands at around £40,000 a year, though exceptional individuals are able to earn considerably more - 16th January
 * If you want to know what's wrong with Gordon Brown's masterplan, remind yourself what this man did to Britain - With his long sideburns, wide collars and oddly plausible manner, Welfare Secretary James Purnell could have walked straight off the set of Seventies sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em - 13th January
 * More broken promises and the scandal of why MPs still refuse to admit how they squander our money - The is barely a week old and the direst predictions are already being realised, with news of fresh job losses being brought every day - 9th January
 * Cameron is right - it's the prudent savers who really deserve help now - The biggest category of losers from this year’s economic recession will not be the profligate and sometimes irresponsible... - 5th January
 * Ditch Speaker Martin, make Vince Cable Chancellor and freeze out the Tories... is this Brown's masterplan for 2009? - British politics changed fundamentally after Margaret Thatcher's famous election victory in May 1979. It opened the way to a prolonged period of one-party rule -  initially with the Conservatives in power until 1997 and thereafter New Labour - 2nd January
 * The pound may be in trouble but don't be fooled by the euro gloaters. Their bogus currency will never see its 20th birthday - This week marks the tenth anniversary of the euro - and every eurocrat in existence is hailing the single currency as an exquisite success - 1st January

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Articles: 2015

 * With Universal Credit, work might finally pay - It's been a long time coming, but Iain Duncan Smith's attempt to streamline the benefits system might finally be bearing fruit - 18th February
 * Nothing will be solved by Syriza's empty promises - We haven't seen despair on a scale like this in Europe since the Thirties – but Alexis Tsipras's populism won't help anyone - 25th January
 * Why does Roy Greenslade appear to be doing Labour's dirty work? - Come on Roy, you can do much better than this - 21st January
 * The Tory machine is gearing up to back Boris Johnson as the next leader - George Osborne is clever enough to know he can’t win – and to know a man who can - 15th January
 * The questions Tony Blair must answer - The former Prime Minister has tried to escape scrutiny over Northern Ireland amnesties - 13th January
 * Nigel Farage is wrong to blame the horror in France on multiculturalism - Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg were right to attack Farage. However neither of them pointed out that the Ukip leader is factually wrong - 10th January
 * The hypocrites have jumped aboard the Magna Carta bandwagon - Neither the Government nor the VIPs celebrating the historic charter's anniversary give a damn about its principles - 9th January



Articles: 2014

 * New Year Honours list: Fiona Woolf served her country and deserves recognition - The list honours ordinary people who perform lives of service to their local community. I guess this is why it has generated such anger among the political and media class - 31st December
 * David Cameron is hurting Israel by ignoring Palestine's plight - If the Prime Minister was a true 'Conservative friend of Israel', he would be prepared to offer friendly criticism where it is so obviously due - 19th December
 * Nigel Farage must ditch Neil Hamilton or Ukip will be destroyed - Ukip leader now faces a choice over the former Conservative MP that will decide Ukip's fate - 17th December
 * George Osborne is not the great Chancellor that he thinks he is - With the debt surging, he is more interested in getting re-elected than squaring the books - 4th December
 * David Cameron can sell Euroscepticism to the EU - The Prime Minister’s new position on immigration will convince many who take the trouble to think deeply about this sensitive subject - 29th November
 * Shaker Aamer's imprisonment in Guantánamo Bay is a scandal and an embarrassment - Mr Aamaer's case exposes the hypocrisy of Blair's war on terror - 23rd November
 * The BBC is still ignoring evidence of a potential cover-up over Jimmy Savile - There are worrying signs that Rona Fairhead's reign at the BBC Trust will be as squalid as Chris Patten's - 21st November
 * Firing Patrick O'Flynn would signal the start of Ukip's slide back into fringe insignificance - The contradictions between Ukip's Left and the Right threaten to tear the party apart - 17th November
 * The question that Interpol won't answer: why does it collaborate with totalitarians like Vladimir Putin? - The Secretary General at Interpol has failed to show that he is ready to confront the organisation's culture of complicity - 5th November
 * Let's salute Misbah-ul-Haq and his exiled Pakistan cricket team for restoring national pride - Misbah-ul-Haq has given a disgraced team its self respect back - 3rd November
 * Watch out: the anti-smoking fanatics now want to regulate drinking - The anti-smoking lobby has been offering advice to the House of Lords on how to regulate drinking. Draconian moves could follow - 30th October
 * The 'Saatchi Bill' is dangerous and will bring nothing but harm - Quacks, Big Pharma and insurance firms will benefit from the Saatchi Bill - not doctors and certainly not patients - 24th October
 * Farage’s Tory 'fifth columnists’ are helping no one but Miliband - It’s hard to explain why so many Conservative MPs are secretly – or openly – on Ukip’s side - 17th October
 * A masterclass that showed why David Cameron deserves to win - His 2007 speech saved his leadership, his party and, arguably, the nation. Can he do it again - 2nd October
 * Air strikes play into the hands of Saudi-inspired jihadists - David Cameron’s summit with the Iranian president shows the way to beating Isil - 26th September
 * Scottish independence: Britain is facing its greatest constitutional crisis in 300 years - If Alex Samond wins, neither David Cameron nor Ed Miliband will survive – and that’s only the start - 12th September
 * Cameron can chart a course past Farage the revolutionary - Ukip wants Labour in power to see it fail, but the Conservatives are the only serious option - 4th September
 * Carswell’s defection to Ukip is a seismic shock to the British political system - The Clacton MP's decision to join Nigel Farage is, like the rest of his career, principled and decent - 29th August
 * Bercow and his cronies threaten our parliamentary democracy - The Speaker’s plan to give a crucial job to a wholly unsuitable candidate is reckless - 28th August
 * The principled Lady Warsi has given our PM a wake-up call - Successive governments have failed to condemn disproportionate use of force by the Israelis against the Palestinians - 7th August
 * As the clouds gather, Alastair Cook conducts himself with a certain quiet heroism’ - The debate over Alastair Cook’s future as England captain should not obscure the courage and dignity he shows in adversity - 23rd July
 * This fiasco of a reshuffle almost looks like an act of sabotage - Competent ministers have been sacked in order to strengthen the Chancellor’s position - 17th July
 * Cameron and his gang haven't learnt their lesson - Our rulers carry on as if the phone hacking didn't happen - 26th June
 * There’s a whiff of sleaze coming from Mr Hague’s Foreign Office - Her Majesty’s birthday party is being sold to the highest bidder all around the world - 19th June
 * There’s a whiff of sleaze coming from William Hague’s Foreign Office -Her Majesty’s birthday party is being sold to the highest bidder all around the world - 19th June
 * A powerful and merciless force has emerged on the world stage - As Middle East borders are redrawn by jihadists, the West should regard Iran as an ally - 12th June
 * Why is it always the spads who take the fall? - Brits believe in standing up for people who work for us: so why do the special advisers resign, not the ministers? - 11th June
 * This Coalition can be compared with our greatest governments - Like Thatcher and Attlee before them, Cameron and Clegg have changed Britain - 4th June
 * Only our PM can lead the fight for a new-look European Union - The Tory leader has a chance to channel voter anger into meaningful reform - 30th May
 * Cameron's friendship with Blair is starting to do serious damage - The PM’s inertia over allegations of abuse in Iraq is bad for him and this country - 22nd May
 * British politics is broken - and only Nigel Farage is profiting - The Ukip chief is alone among the party leaders in being able to navigate our shattered political landscape - 15th May
 * The future of the BBC is at stake – and David Cameron must take control - Repairing the damage done by Lord Patten will require a bold and independent successor - 9th May
 * Rebellion is brewing against the elite that has ruined Europe - 'The idiot in Brussels’ and his like may keep their jobs for now, but trust is evaporating fast - 24th April
 * As the bombs fall, the people of Damascus rally round Assad - The West may oppose the regime, but on the streets of the capital the people fear a greater evil - 17th April
 * Cameron is paying the price for grievous lapse of judgment - Downing Street needs shaking up if PM’s credibility with voters is to be restored - 10th April
 * The Aintree cavalry charge thunders on - Without the dedication of one man and his team, the Grand National would be history - 3rd April
 * There’s a quiet rebellion under way against bossy government - People need to be free to do what they like, including having a smoke in the pub - 27th March
 * A triumph for Mr Osborne, and a triumph for the Coalition, too - Renewing vows with the Lib Dems is still the Tories’ best chance of returning to power - 20th March
 * Labour’s unforced error is a gift for its opponents - Only the Tories offer a real chance of Britain having a say on Europe - 13th March
 * We appeased Putin before - why confront him now? - The deaths in Ukraine are a pinprick when set against Putin's past crimes - 6th March
 * We can get rid of Assad or fight al-Qaeda, but we can’t do both - To get a proper picture of the Syrian conflict, the West needs to listen to its enemies - 27th February
 * The US has bullied our banks into handing over a billion dollars - Quietly and without notice, Britain has surrendered control over its trade with Iran - 20th February
 * Yes, the floods are awful, but we must keep a sense of proportion - Countries where we send aid suffer disasters on scale we can't imagine
 * Kevin Pietersen debacle is a modern morality tale - In the place of loyalty, the new breed of neo-liberals bat only for themselves - 6th February
 * Joyce, Hancock and Mercer are perfect examples of Parliament’s low standards - In any other profession, the three errant MPs would have been shown the door - 30th January
 * The Tories must rescue Clegg in order to save their own skins - If the Lib Dem vote collapses, it would jeopardise any future coalition government - 23rd January
 * One question for the Tory rebels – whatever happened to loyalty? - It’s hard not to agree with the 95 Conservative MPs’ letter on curbing EU powers, but it has rekindled a civil war in the party - 16th January
 * We may all pay a price for the crushing of democracy in Egypt - Peter Oborne saw this week in Cairo that the junta is bent on repeating the mistakes of the past - 9th January
 * Europe is slowly strangling the life out of national democracy - Decisions affecting the lives of voters are being taken by bureaucrats and unelected 'experts' - 2nd January



Articles: 2013

 * David Cameron, the great reformer - It may not be enough, but the Tories have won the argument over welfare reform, the budget deficit and free schools - 30th December
 * Only the Queen understands the true value of the Commonwealth - There may be distrust from Left and Right, but Her Majesty’s record is unmatched - 28th December
 * How many more times can the Foreign Office get it so wrong? - A total misreading of the situation in Syria is just the latest example of Whitehall blundering - 19th December
 * Politicians always pay a price for trying to change the world - Obamacare and IDS’s Universal Credit are both struggling, but only the latter may prevail - 12th December
 * George Osborne has given the Tories a working plan for victory - The Chancellor fully deserves his triumph – but it’s hard to make sense of his economics - 5th December
 * Iran nuclear deal: The friends of Israel who are refusing to face facts - Benjamin Netanyahu’s acolytes are hell-bent on undermining Obama's pact with Iran - 28th November
 * Immigration: Britain’s doors are wide open, and we can’t even talk about it - A wave of Romanians and Bulgarians is heading our way, thanks to the EU’s lack of democracy - 14th November
 * Cameron’s great lobbying purge fails the 'Mandelson test’ - Thanks to a loophole, the former Labour minister’s clients can remain anonymous - 7th November
 * Ministers are still treating the Commonwealth with contempt - William Hague vowed to put the 'C back into the FCO’ – but things are as bad as ever - 30th October
 * Sir John Major has broken his silence – let’s hope the party is listening - The former PM wants less 'ideology’ and more talk about what matters to ordinary people - 24th October
 * If the police are allowed to lie and cheat, we are heading for anarchy - The Andrew Mitchell case is not isolated, and there are grounds for a Royal Commission - 17th October
 * The phone-hacking trial will be dream territory for the PM’s rivals - Under siege, Cameron will find it hard to resist the proposed state controls on the media - 10th October
 * Political leaders show what they really believe - David Cameron’s speech ends an unusual but refreshing conference season - 3rd October
 * Wake up, Mr Hague – change is in the air - Ignoring Iran’s peace overtures is the latest in a series of errors by the Foreign Secretary - 26th September
 * Ed Miliband is proving himself to be a brave and adroit leader - If Mr Miliband is remembered for nothing else, his stand on Syria changed the course of history - 19th September
 * Nick Clegg has served his party well and deserves to survive - The Lib Dems embody two contradictory factions, one of which may turn on its leader -12th September
 * The questions that have to be answered about our bloated BBC - Lavish pay-offs and a City bonus culture have tainted a corporation that belongs to us all - 5th September
 * The rush to judgment on Syria is a catastrophic and deadly error - Britain and America show contempt for the lessons of the past in pressing for action - 29th August
 * Cameron’s empty gesture could spark a British rebirth - The EU referendum gives us the chance to re-emerge as a global trading nation - 25th July
 * These hereditary peers put our MPs to shame - Lord Borwick is a fine example of a parliamentarian who is in touch with the ordinary man - 21st July
 * The Left talks gibberish while Cameron racks up successes - After three years, the Coalition’s daring reforms are starting to pay dividends - 18th July
 * Britain is betraying its values in its response to the Egyptian coup - William Hague can’t tell the truth about Morsi’s departure for fear of upsetting the US - 11th july
 * Soon, we are likely to need a braver chancellor than this one - Osborne is good at the politics, but flunks the economics. For how long can this continue? - 27th June
 * Five Tory chairmen is a shambles - Boris Johnson could get the Tory party into shape - 20th June
 * Ashcroft and the Tories should part company - Lord Ashcroft's vicious attacks on the PM have gone too far - 13th June
 * Conservative radicalism can go too far - David Cameron's reforming administration is in danger of making too many changes at once - 9th June
 * Why has Cameron put us on al-Qaeda’s side? - Just like Tony Blair over Iraq, the PM has lost touch with reality when it comes to Syria - 6th June
 * The whiff of suspicion over the Chilcot Inquiry grows stronger - Lord Owen is right to raise questions about a conspiracy of silence following the Iraq War - 30th May
 * Interpol: fighting for truth and justice, or helping the villains? - This famous police force is being used by vicious despots to pursue their political enemies - 23rd May
 * Have MPs learnt a thing since 2009? Their greed suggests not - The expenses scandal hasn’t gone away, with politicians of all shades still milking the system - 16th May
 * This Queen’s Speech proves that the Coalition is still going strong - The footsoldiers may be squabbling, but those at the top are determined to see the job through - 9th May
 * Voters should learn the lesson of history and back a Tory - Lord Tebbit’s advice to Conservative voters shows he does not understand the party - 2nd May
 * Ukip has thrown British politics into the most marvellous chaos - Nigel Farage is a problem for David Cameron – but the PM should avoid a lurch to the Right - 25th April
 * A moment of deep civility amid the brutality and bitterness - It was right that Lady Thatcher’s old enemies were there – but final closure may be elusive - 18th April
 * Margaret Thatcher: This is a state funeral, and that’s a mistake - The decision to acknowledge Lady Thatcher, but not Clement Attlee, makes the Queen appear partisan and is out of kilter with the impartiality of the modern monarchy - 11th April
 * Marvel at Margaret Thatcher – the outsider who beat the system - Unlike most politicians today, she had courage, integrity and a clear sense of who she was - 9th April
 * George Osborne can’t claim credit for Iain Duncan Smith’s virtuous reforms - The energy and radicalism in welfare policy have nothing to do with the Treasury and everything to do with Iain Duncan Smith’s moral vision - 7th April
 * David Cameron's critics are wrong. He’s on the verge of something great - A revolution is under way in health, welfare and education that may change Britain forever - 4th April
 * David Miliband a colossus? He’s a greedy failure in a cosmic sulk - The political breed the Labour MP represents has done extraordinary harm to the nation’s governance - 28th March
 * Budget 2013: Labour made the mess, but the Tories are only making it worse - The ugly truth is that there appears to be no political solution to the calamity facing us all - 22nd March
 * The Queen’s leadership is special - On Commonwealth Day, the former secretary general says his talks with leaders all point to one conclusion over who would succeed Her Majesty as its head - 11th March
 * Ed Miliband should sack Ed Balls - and as brutally as possible - The Liberal Democrats’ antics over Lord Rennard have obscured the truly dreadful performance of the shadow chancellor, Ed Balls - 27th February
 * The BBC rot starts at the top, with the elusive Lord Patten - The chairman emerges smelling of roses, even as he sticks the knife into his juniors - 24th February
 * George Osborne should stick to his job and leave politicking to others - The Chancellor has enough to do trying to save the economy from impending disaster - 21st February
 * Mid Staffs crisis: No one wants to talk about the real scandal of our time - The horse meat affair matters not a jot. The interesting question is why the deaths of more than 1,000 people in an NHS hospital have been ignored - 17th February
 * Nick Clegg and his poor Lib Dems are having a nervous breakdown - The Coalition’s junior partner started well, but is now a threat to good government - 14th February
 * David Cameron is trashing his own party, and it’s not a pretty sight - Gay marriage is an admirable cause, but if Tory membership keeps falling at this rate, we will soon enter a new political era - 7th February
 * Could Chris Huhne take Nick Clegg or David Cameron with him? - The by-election brought about by Chris Huhne’s resignation will be fought viciously and will expose every rift in the Coalition - 4th February
 * We must shine a light on the dark corners of our secret state - The Coalition should ditch the Justice and Security Bill, which would cover up Britain’s complicity in torture - 31st January
 * David Cameron may have finished off the Tories – but he had no choice - EU referendum: David Cameron's Conservative Party gamble over Europe has been tried before, by Labour. It fatally split the party - 24th January
 * Israel’s moderate voices won't be heard at this general election - As the polls open in Israel's general election, the loudest applause is reserved for Naftali Bennett, leader of Jewish Home, and the new Right - 22nd January
 * Tony Blair’s record in the Middle East is a sorry one – it’s time he quit - It’s easy to see what the former Labour prime minister gets out of his role as Middle East envoy, but harder to see what he gives back - 17th January
 * Face it, we only matter to Obama as part of the EU - The Americans have smashed the foundation myth of the modern Tory party - 13th January
 * Europe’s dogmatic ruling class remains wedded to its folly - Proclamations of the euro’s salvation owe more to ideology than to the facts - 10th January
 * Christopher Martin-Jenkins: the passing of the inspirational amateur leaves us all the poorer - Our institutions need many more 'outsiders’ with the enthusiasm and knowledge of CMJ - 3rd January



Articles: 2012

 * There’s a whiff of failure at the heart of our honours system - The PM promised to end the abuses, but there are signs of a return to the old ways - 27th December
 * Iain Duncan Smith has to win the day in the Tory war over welfare - Only the Work and Pensions Secretary has the moral authority to push through the welfare reforms - 23rd December
 * Boxing Day racing is part of the fabric of English life - There’s no more hospitable place to be on Boxing Day than a race meeting - 23rd December
 * David Cameron deserves better than this ghastly backbench B-team - The Tory leader David Cameron can do nothing to satisfy his selfish MPs. The only winner is Ed Miliband - 20th December
 * The cowardice at the heart of our relationship with Israel - The Tories’ shameful reluctance to criticise Tel Aviv is putting any hope of peace at risk - 13th December
 * Autumn Statement: The day the Chancellor reneged on his promise - Chancellor George Osborne’s fiscal gutlessness in this budget shows a failure to engage with the enormity of the crisis - 6th December
 * Cameron will pay a heavy price for the feebleness of his whips - The PM’s haughty disregard of his own party is reminiscent of Tony Blair at his peak - 29th November
 * EU budget: it is selfish of Eurosceptics to try to force David Cameron’s hand - With Europe on the brink, now is the time for magnanimity, not self-serving posturing - 22nd November
 * Bercow and his bullies bring shame on our Parliament - The Speaker is leading an ambush by MPs of the body set up to control their expenses - 15th November
 * US election 2012: A good day for David Cameron, but a rout for the Tory Right’s vision - David Cameron and George Osborne must learn from Mitt Romney’s defeat and rethink Conservative election strategy for 2015 - 8th November
 * EU Budget: the Coalition can’t keep facing two ways at once - Agreement on the economy is vital if the Government is to make it through to 2015 - 1st November
 * Cameron should beware the Australian master strategist - The return of political guru Lynton Crosby would signal the defeat of everything the PM stands for - 27th October
 * Chris Patten personifies everything that is wrong with the BBC elite - Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, is no longer fit to carry out his role and should stand down now - 25th October
 * Why the Tories are ready to risk detonating the Brussels bomb - Withdrawal from the EU has changed from being a fringe view to mainstream opinion - 18th October
 * David Cameron has shown why the Tories are the truly moral party - The Prime Minister David Cameron made a compelling case for his great social reforms at the Conservative Party conference - 11th October
 * Now it’s David Cameron’s turn to display his one-nation credentials - It’s a simple choice for the Tories: face defeat or rekindle the high hopes of two years ago - 4th October
 * Prince Harry: Conduct unbecoming - The Prince’s disgraceful behaviour in a Las Vegas hotel room ignored the duty he owes to two respected institutions – the Royal family and the Army. He should know better - 23rd August
 * Our South Africans are on a sticky wicket - Kevin Pietersen is only one of many to use the England team for his own selfish ends - 16th August
 * We must summon the courage to bring Zimbabwe in from the cold - Sanctions have served no purpose and the Foreign Office is right to begin lifting them - 19th July
 * In the Coalition’s darkest hour, it must return to the Rose Garden - A fresh agreement with the Lib Dems might just give the careworn PM a new lease of life - 12th July
 * Cameron can learn from 'Mac the Knife’ - Fifty years ago, Harold Macmillan sacked a third of his cabinet. But the full story of the betrayal that destroyed him has never been told - 7th July
 * Yet another dismal repeat at the highest echelons of the BBC - The new director-general is a clone of the old one - a far cry from the values of Lord Reith - 5th July
 * Lord Ashcroft’s Tory Right is stopping the Coalition working - The Government's early idealism has vanished due to Lord Ashcroft’s media pressure - 28th June
 * No 10's troubles can be traced back to one man - George Osborne - In the coming reshuffle, the Chancellor should be made to choose between his two jobs - 21st June
 * Behind Enoch Powell's monstrous image lay a man of exceptional integrity - A century after his birth, Enoch Powell still seems more modern than most politicians - 14th June
 * David Cameron faces his moment of truth at the Leveson Inquiry - The Prime Minister is an honourable man – but his answers will shed light on a dangerous conflict of evidence - 10th June
 * The euro’s 'guilty men’ are now steering Europe to catastrophe - Remaining in the single currency is no longer a rational choice for many countries – but will its creators listen - 7th June
 * It may seem painless, but drone war is destroying our reputation - A new phase of secret, unaccountable and illegal warfare is being deployed by the - 31st May
 * Cable is the moral centre of Coalition - Business Secretary is loyal to Government - 24th May
 * Britain should leave the euro to its fate - It's not our job to save the single currency - 17th May
 * Cameron’s Coalition is growing more expensive - Deals to keep the partnership going could present problems - 10th May
 * The Murdoch scandal and Tory sleaze - The Conservative Party is defending a collapsing empire - 3rd May
 * Will the Murdochs topple Cameron? - Evidence emerging from the Leveson Inquiry hints that the Tories entered into a 'Grand Bargain’ with the newspaper empire - 26th April
 * That nice Mrs May seems to be turning nasty - The Home Secretary has not showed cool deliberation in her attitudes to the judiciary - 22nd April
 * The Right-wing agitators out to get David Cameron - The Prime Minister is besieged by Conservative critics oblivious to the man on the street - 19th April
 * Torture casts a shadow over our reputation - Someone is not telling the truth on rendition – is it the secret service or the politicians - 12th April
 * It's time to give John Major some credit - The former PM and his government look better all the time - 5th April
 * Conservative Party could save Cameron'' - The Prime Minister’s proxies and cronies must go if he is to re-establish confidence - 29th March
 * Has Osborne just waved goodbye to Britain’s triple-A rating? - The Chancellor has repeatedly stressed the importance of ratings agencies. So why has he abandoned the language of austerity - 21st March
 * Sorry, gentlemen, but you’re no Roosevelt and Churchill - Britain and America are betraying the values both countries fought for in the past - 15th March
 * This fine Coalition won’t see out 2013 – what a shame for Britain - The best government for decades will be brought down by the pitfalls of partnership - 8th March
 * Is Rupert Murdoch a fit and proper person to run a company? - The boss must take final responsibility for the culture of criminality at News International - 1st March
 * Marie Colvin: fearless, committed, essential - The courage and self-sacrifice of Marie Colvin, who has been killed in Syria, was in the finest tradition of great journalism - 23rd February
 * Syria's crisis is leading us to unlikely bedfellows - David Cameron and William Hague risk over-simplifying a complex situation - 19th February
 * The callous cruelty of the EU is destroying Greece, a once-proud country - Britain should play its part to end this Greek tragedy by standing up for the underdog - 16th February
 * David Cameron should stand by his courageous health minister - Andrew Lansley is convinced that without his controversial reforms the NHS will atrophy and fail - 12th February
 * The rule of law in Britain is diminished by the furore over efforts to deport Abu Qatada to Jordan - The British Parliament has lost sight of the noble principles that Strasbourg has upheld - 9th February
 * The Chancellor and RBS: Osborne’s failure to get a grip - Don’t blame Hester or Goodwin. The complacency of our part-time Chancellor is at the heart of the banking crisis - 4th February
 * The BBC’s distortion of the truth helps Putin suppress his critics - A revealing documentary - Putin, Russia and the West - is all very well, but it should not be playing into the hands of a tyrant - 2nd February
 * The rise of the overclass - We’ve all heard of the 'underclass’: now its mirror image – a super-rich elite that is equally cut off from the rest of us – is defining the political debate - 21st January
 * Sayeeda Warsi: Baroness of the Punjab - Peter Oborne joins the mill worker’s daughter on her mission to help preserve democracy in Pakistan - 16th January



Articles: 2011

 * We need more than prayers now - The outcome of next week's Euro summit could mean unimagined powers for Germany – or untold risks for us all - 3rd December
 * Cricket, corruption and Khan the saviour - Could the fate of a nation in turmoil rest with one man - 5th November
 * Libya: The Arab Spring may yet turn to chilly winter - We may not like the consequences of elections in North Africa - but we must not repeat the mistakes of the past - 24th October
 * With Gaddafi gone, who will run the new Libya? - In their fight to topple Gaddafi, Libya’s rebels were united in a common cause, but with his death the revolution enters a defining stage - 21st October
 * Will Litvinenko’s killers get away with it? - The inquiry into the ex-KGB agent’s murder puts UK relations with Russia on a knife edge - 12th October
 * Tony Blair: a liability in Britain and the Middle East? - Disparaged by Palestinians and booed by Labour Party conference delegates, the former prime minister is losing his appeal - 1st October
 * On the desert trail of Tony Blair's millions - An explosive new TV documentary reveals the apparent conflict of interests that allows the former prime minister, now a Middle East peace envoy, to earn millions - 24th September
 * years of shameful neglect, William Hague has restored the Foreign Office to its proper dignity'' - 7th September
 * moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom'' - 11th August
 * this grave crisis, the world's leaders are terrifyingly out of their depth'' - 6th August
 * covered up our involvement in torture. Now we must expose it'' - 4th August
 * the post-Murdoch age, politics can develop genuine substance'' - 28th July
 * euro crisis will give Germany the empire it’s always dreamed of'' - 21st July
 * great Murdoch conspiracy'' - In the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown years, Rupert Murdoch's empire exploited an alternative and corrupt system of government - 15th July
 * hacking: David Cameron is not out of the sewer yet'' - Poor judgment lies at the heart of the PM’s crisis over the Murdoch empire - 9th July
 * Cameron is in the sewer because of his News International friends'' - 6th July
 * would be a better place if families looked after their own'' - 30th June
 * fleeing Afghanistan, the West relinquishes its grip on the world'' - 23rd June
 * Cameron does not realise what a powerful position he is in'' - 16th June
 * David Cameron the most Europhile prime minister since Edward Heath?'' - Cameron, Hague and Osborne remain Eurosceptic in their hearts - but their actions reveal a conviction that other things matter more - 5th June
 * Cameron has the makings of a truly great prime minister'' - Many of those in No 10 end up as essentially irrelevant figures, but a small few attain genuinely heroic status - 15th May
 * Laden killed: Whose side was Pakistan on in this shoot-out?'' - We don't know if bin Laden was under official protection or lured into a trap - 3rd May
 * put the local back into local elections'' - The local election campaign flatly contradicts the central tenet of the Coalition's - and David Cameron's - programme - 1st May
 * wisdom of the Windsors'' - Despite its foes’ predictions, the monarchy has thrived – but there are still dangers lurking - 26th April
 * Osborne must act before Britain is sucked into the euro whirlpool'' - Instead of complacency, the Chancellor should be protecting us from Europe’s looming crisis - 8th April
 * but it’s not right to apologise'' - The Prime Minister’s mea culpa over the conflict in Kashmir is neither welcome nor wise - 6th April
 * Farron becomes the Lib Dems' new poster-boy'' - Nick Clegg has been given a lukewarm reception at his party's spring conference, while Tim Farron was greeted with wild applause - 13th March 2011
 * big beast is back into battle'' - Party will lurch to the Left as Ed Miliband struggles to contain his number two - 22nd January
 * Clegg’s Lords reforms could destroy the authority of the Commons'' - The Deputy Prime Minister’s passion for constitutional change has been written off as harmless Lib Dem pottiness - but it could do immense damage to our system of government - 1st January



Articles: 2010

 * Labour Party's invisible man'' - Ed Miliband has had weak advice, shambolic organisation and a resentful brother - 5th December
 * shakedown'' - Hard-working families are the victims of a crude political strategy pursued by a Prime Minister and Chancellor out of touch with ordinary people. It's immoral - 15th October
 * leadership: Behind the Coalition's agreeable chatter, the real battle is beginning'' - Peter Oborne, our new chief political commentator, argues that Britain's new, civilised politics is a diversion from the serious business of the economy - 24th September



The Spectator articles:

 * Aleppo Notebook: the city’s terrorist besiegers will now be besieged - Again and again I was asked: why is Britain supporting the terrorists in Syria’s civil war - 13th February
 * Diary: The shadow chancellor George Osborne has been lunching privately with the textiles magnate Richard Caring, the Labour-supporting businessman who got caught up in the cash for peerages investigation - 8th July 2009
 * Keith Joseph’s lesson to today’s political pygmies - In this extract from his Centre for Policy Studies lecture, Peter Oborne says that the great Tory sage and architect of Thatcherism was quite unlike the politicians of today - 4th March 2009

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News & updates:

 * Why I have resigned from the Telegraph - The coverage of HSBC in Britain's Telegraph is a fraud on its readers. If major newspapers allow corporations to influence their content for fear of losing advertising revenue, democracy itself is in peril. - OurKingdom, 17th February 2015
 * Bad business - Peter Oborne's resignation from the Daily Telegraph, revealed on openDemocracy, asks fundamental questions about corporate influence over the media. Written by Mary Fitzgerald, Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy, 17th February 2015
 * Honesty Shocker: Telegraph's Political Commentator Quits Over HSBC Coverage, Accuses Paper Of "Fraud On Readers" zero hedge.com 18th February 2015
 * Oborne told off for being gratuitously offensive - by Paxman, Greenslade Blog, 29th September 2011 (with video)

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 * Articles at Middle East Eye
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Oborne