...Tony Benn retired from the House of Commons in 2001, he claimed it was to "devote more time to politics". According to Peter Oborne, such drollery points to an uncomfortable truth. Political editor and columnist Oborne devotes this book to unmasking the "political...
It’s taken some time, but finally Tina Brown, the grande dame of the
Anglo-American media, has gone digital. On 6 October, Brown – the former
editor of the New Yorker, Tatler and Vanity Fair magazines and the author of
last year’s best-selling The
...Made entirely from recycled materials and suitable for men or women Review: The Triumph of the Political Class by Peter Oborne This is a serious, fearless tirade against politicians and New Labour carreras lathane - cla. a highly regarded contract publisher...
...and an open media been greater. Half-day conference November 15th 2008 2.00-6.30pm London School of Economics With Peter Oborne, Inayat Bunglawala, Nick Davies and others http://mwaw.net/conference/2008/ Hosted by Media Workers Against the War (www.mwaw.net) ...
...unlike other free-marketers, his economic liberalism seems to embrace free movements of labour as well as capital - I recall Peter Oborne, one of his Spectator regulars, making the point – and Johnson has quietly signaled dissent from his party's line on immigration...
Beer movingly shows how remarkable it was for John Milton, "an elderly blind man living at a time of persecution and plague", to produce Paradise Lost. As a republican who had been a Whitehall insider and propagandist under Cromwell, he had been jailed
...In his days as a newspaper columnist in the early 1990s Campbell described him as "an overprivileged twit" and, according to Peter Oborne and Simon Walters' biography of Campbell, the two men had an awkward relationship when Campbell was in Downing Street....
... We were heading north towards the lawless Afghan border. Gradually the terrain became mountainous and the mood changed to one of apprehension. At a remote town two hours' journey from Peshawar, capital of the Pakistan's North-West Frontier, traffic halted...