Peter Oborne

Peter Oborne      (journalist)
Born	1957-07-11 Poole, Dorset, England, UK
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Christ's College (Cambridge)
Exposed	The Telegraph
Former Telegraph journalist who went independent

Peter Oborne was described by Tony Gosling in 2022 as "one of the only really honest decent freelance independent minded journalists in the UK at the moment".

Career

Oborne was the former chief political commentator of the Telegraph until he resigned, declaring that "The coverage of HSBC in Britain's Telegraph is a fraud on its readers."

He reports for the UK Channel 4's Dispatches and Unreported World.^[When?]

He was named freelancer of the year in 2016 at the Online Media Awards for articles he wrote for Middle East Eye.

 

Documents by Peter Oborne

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:A bitter Middle East crisis at the heart of the Conservative Party	Article	6 August 2021	Boris Johnson Ben Elliot Mohamed Amersi Conservative Friends of the Middle East and North Africa Conservative Middle East Council Pandora Papers	This crisis will not - thank goodness - claim lives as the Iraq War did. But it will damage Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has already found himself involved in a series of sleaze investigations, of which this is the most personally dangerous for him.
Document:The conspiracy of lies about Corbyn that unites Sunak and Starmer	Article	8 November 2022	Boris Johnson Keir Starmer Penny Mordaunt Rishi Sunak Suella Braverman	Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's abuse of his high office to smear Corbyn proves that he means to employ the same deceitful methods as his disgraced predecessor, Boris Johnson.
Document:Torture Inquiry must reveal the Truth	article	7 July 2010	MI6 "Extraordinary rendition" Torture
File:Britain's Israeli Lobby.pdf	booklet	13 November 2009	Israel lobby	A hard look at the influence of Israel in the politics of the UK

 

A Quote by Peter Oborne

Page	Quote	Date	Source
Leader of the Conservative Party	“All Tory leaders have surrounded themselves with an inner circle, which has given them ballast and in certain important respects defined their leadership. John Major had a winning fondness for palpable fakes, like Jeffrey Archer and David Mellor; Margaret Thatcher liked hirsute North London entrepreneurs with a ‘can-do’ attitude and heavy jewellery. Michael Howard’s chosen milieu is constructed of dapper, well-spoken men and women, many of whom live within walking distance of one another in west London. Cameron is unmistakably the leader of these Notting Hill Tories, but others include Michael Howard’s political secretary Rachel Whetstone, his speechwriter Ed Vaizey, marketing expert Steve Hilton, policy man Nick Boles, along with the newspaper columnists Edward Heathcoat Amory and his wife Alice Thomson.”	19 June 2004	The Spectator

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
International Festival of Whistleblowing Dissent and Accountability	8 May 2021	8 May 2021	Internet	Whistleblowing event held in 2021.