30 Facts About Peter Oborne

Peter Alan Oborne is a British journalist and broadcaster.

Peter Oborne is the former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, from which he resigned in early 2015.

Peter Oborne is author of The Rise of Political Lying, The Triumph of the Political Class, and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism, and along with Frances Weaver of the 2011 pamphlet Guilty Men.

Peter Oborne has authored a number of books about cricket.

Peter Oborne writes a political column for Declassified UK, Double Down News, openDemocracy, Middle East Eye and a diary column for the Byline Times.

Peter Oborne sat as a commissioner for the Citizens Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life.

Peter Oborne won the Press Awards Columnist of the Year in 2012 and again in 2016.

Peter Oborne began working for Robert Maxwell's now closed Financial Weekly magazine in 1985, being taken on by the editor Mihir Bose.

In between two spells on the Evening Standard, the second being more extended, Peter Oborne joined The Daily Telegraph in 1987 for what turned out to be five months.

Peter Oborne is the author of a highly critical biography of Tony Blair's former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, published in 1999, and a biography of the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira.

Peter Oborne is a vocal critic of the late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, and author of a pamphlet published by the Centre for Policy Studies about the situation in Zimbabwe, A moral duty to act there.

Peter Oborne had been The Spectators political editor since 2001, and was replaced in that role by Fraser Nelson of The Scotsman.

Peter Oborne wrote some years later: "Blair falls into the tradition of [Robert] Walpole and [David] Lloyd George", who greatly enriched themselves in office, although Blair's "exploitation of the office of prime minister came after he left Downing Street".

In July 2008, Peter Oborne presented another Dispatches programme made for Channel 4 called It Shouldn't Happen to a Muslim.

Peter Oborne was on the Orwell Prize's Journalism shortlist for 2009.

In collaboration with James Jones, Peter Oborne wrote the pamphlet "The Pro-Israel Lobby in Britain", which outlined the alleged influence enjoyed by pro-Israeli media and political lobbyists in the United Kingdom.

Peter Oborne wrote and presented an edition of Dispatches titled "Inside Britain's Israel Lobby", featuring interviews with people mentioned in the pamphlet and commenting on the BBC's refusal to broadcast the 2009 DEC Gaza appeal.

Peter Oborne, responding to his critics in an article for The Spectators 'Coffee House' blog, complained of the "scale and virulence that I have never encountered before" of his and Morrison's opponents.

Peter Oborne rejected Kamm and Murray's claims about his co-author, who "fully accepts" the veracity of claims against Ahmadinejad.

Peter Oborne wrote that "not one of our critics have even tried to deal with the central, factual points of our short book: that Iran isn't in possession of nuclear weapons and isn't building them".

Peter Oborne had re-joined The Daily Telegraph in May 2010 from the Mail to write for the newspaper from the following September.

On 17 February 2015, Peter Oborne resigned from The Daily Telegraph.

Specifically, Peter Oborne outlined how the paper would suppress negative stories and drop investigations into the HSBC bank, a major source of their advertising revenue, which, in his opinion, compromised their journalistic integrity calling it a "form of fraud on its readers".

Peter Oborne alleged that The Telegraphs coverage of stories relating to British supermarket chain Tesco, shipping company Cunard and the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong had been influenced by commercial considerations.

Peter Oborne added, "There are other very troubling cases, many of them set out in Private Eye, which has been a major source of information for Telegraph journalists wanting to understand what is happening on their paper".

Peter Oborne had originally begun his investigation whilst working for The Daily Telegraph, but the newspaper had refused to publish the resultant article, which had been critical of the bank's decision, triggering his decision to resign.

On 30 June 2015, it was announced that Peter Oborne would rejoin the Daily Mail with a weekly political column starting in the autumn and write a weekly column in Middle East Eye.

In March 2024, Peter Oborne featured in Channel 4's 'The Rise and Fall of Boris Johnson.

Peter Oborne describes himself as a "regular Anglican churchgoer", and his wife, Martine, is vicar at St Michael's Sutton Court in Chiswick, west London.

Peter Oborne is a friend of Craig Murray, whom he described as "one of the greatest truth-tellers of our time".