Peter Oborne

The Impossible Peter Oborne

On the face of it, Peter Oborne is impossible. It’s not possible to be educated at Sherborne independent school, at Cambridge University, to work as political editor of the Spectator, as chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, as a journalist at the Evening Standard, as a commentator at the Express, to make nearly 30 […]
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Begging Outrage: British Journalists for Assange

Even that title strikes an odd note.  It should not.  The Fourth Estate, historically reputed as the chamber of journalists and publishers keeping an eye on elected officials, received a blast of oxygen with the arrival of WikiLeaks.  This was daring, rich stuff: scientific journalism in the trenches, news gathering par excellence.  But what Julian […]
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UK’s Peter Oborne: ‘The Press Has Failed On Climate Change’

This planet is unbelievably beautiful and it’s becoming more and more fragile.
From his office in Chiswick, Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne talks about what he calls his “awakening” on climate change.

I don’t accept the skeptical views that this is cyclical. This is an enormous issue and we have all been culpable. The right has been culpable for not treating this as a serious matter and I intend to start writing about it.”

We don’t need to wait for Chilcot, Blair lied to us about Iraq. Here’s the evidence.

On the basis of the evidence before Chilcot, there is little reason to doubt that the Blair government misrepresented the intelligence to parliament and to the British public in order to make the case for an illegal war in which 179 British soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians died.
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