Double down news bias

Peter Oborne is an award-winning journalist, author and commentator on politics for television and radio. He has worked as Political Editor of the Spectator, chief political commentator for the Daily Telegraph and as a columnist for the Daily Mail.

Peter is the author of several books including biographies of Alastair Campbell and the cricketer Basil d’Oliveira (winner of the 2004 William Hill Sports Book of the Year), The Rise of Political Lying, The Triumph of the Political Class and a history of Pakistan and cricket, Wounded Tiger. He has also written (with Tom Roberts) a brilliant analysis of Donald Trump’s use of Twitter, How Trump Thinks.

In early 2021 he published The Assault on Truth (Simon & Schuster), an analysis of political truth-economy in the era of Johnson and Trump, which became a Top 10 bestseller. His latest project is a major history of Islamophobia, The Fate of Abraham, published by Simon & Schuster.

Peter Oborne

Peter Oborne is a former political commentator of the Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. He now writes about politics for Open Democracy and Middle East Eye. He is the author of The Triumph of the Political Class, and The Rise of Political Lying as well as a biography of the cricket Basil D’Oliveira.

I was a strong Brexiteer: Now we must swallow our pride and think again

British Journalists have become part of Johnson’s fake news

As a lifelong Conservative, here’s why I can’t vote for Boris Johnson

Peter Oborne clearly and honestly articulated his own rethink on Brexit. Elegantly, yet with strong feeling, he set out the painful reasoning process that led him to shift from support to opposition and what he saw as the failures of integrity and leadership behind his change of heart.”

For people with the surname, see Oborne (surname).

Human settlement in England

Oborne is a village and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, situated just north of the A30 road approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Sherborne, and is close to the border with Somerset. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 101.^[1] Oborne shares a grouped parish council, Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of Poyntington, Goathill and Castleton.^[2]

A new parish church, designed by William Slater, was built on a fresh site in 1862. The volume on Dorset in the Buildings of England series by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner describe this as having "nave with bellcote, chancel and apse ... Slater's and Carpenter's typical single and twin lancets with pointed-trefoiled cusping".^[3] The remains of the Old St Cuthbert's Church are half a mile south, on the other side of the A30. Only the chancel remains. Oborne had been given to Sherborne Abbey by the Saxon King Edgar in the 10th century and it remai