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Peter Oborne is an author and political columnist on the Daily Telegraph where he also writes a blog. He is interested in UK politics, Zimbabwe and political cultures

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The disastrous HQ of Britain's secret service

Peter Oborne 31 January 2013

The government is persisting in its efforts to pass the so-called Justice and Security Bill. Through the introduction of secret judicial processes, it would permit the cover-up of illegal activity by the State. The attempt should be abandoned.

Torture: Who are Britain's guilty?

Peter Oborne 12 April 2012

It seems clear that British intelligence officers were complicit in torture and rendition. Who gave them their orders?

Sorry, gentlemen, but you’re no Roosevelt and Churchill

Peter Oborne 15 March 2012

The British Prime Minister and the American President are a dark shadow of the wartime coalition: well-meaning, weak men overseeing a wicked military machine. The British should not be involved.

Abu Qatada, British justice and human rights

Peter Oborne 9 February 2012
Having allowed a preacher associated with 9/11 to take up residence in the UK, the British government has held him in prison for over 6 years without trial, in an attempt to send him to Jordon. The result is a disaster for justice.

Is Britishness a generous thing, or has it damaged England?

Neal Ascherson and Peter Oborne 17 January 2012
The Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne and Scottish writer Neal Ascherson discuss national identity in light of the approaching referendum on Scottish independence.

This sorry display of self-interest brings shame on the UK parliament

Peter Oborne 15 December 2011
Even after the expenses scandal shook parliament to its core, many British MPs are still putting greed before duty.

Cricket is being destroyed by this indecent obsession with money

Peter Oborne 26 November 2011
By neglecting the Test match, greedy officials are undermining the essence of the game

Wake up, Tories! Ed Miliband has redefined the future of politics

Peter Oborne 5 October 2011
Post-crash Britain faces an enormous challenge: to create a new structure for British governance and public discourse. At the Labour conference, Ed Miliband took the first steps towards accepting that great and terrifying challenge.

The moral decay of British society is as bad at the top as the bottom

Peter Oborne 12 August 2011
The response of Britain's political elite to the riots that engulfed England last week was phony and hypocritical. The problems exposed by the disturbances do not only exist in inner-city housing estates.

Sycophantic Kingdom: Cameron and company creep to Obama

Peter Oborne 27 May 2011
The UK's premier breaks his word and apes Tony Blair as he subordinates British foreign policy to the US while imitating its trappings of power and hypocritical rhetoric abandoning self-belief and independence for a place in America's sun.

Tom Bingham: Britain is right to honour a champion of the rule of law

Peter Oborne 21 May 2011
Among the few establishment figures who resisted Tony Blair's corruption of British politics was the country's senior law lord. We salute his role.

Known as the book of the expenses scandal, The Silent State has much more to say on Britain's culture of secrecy

Peter Oborne 5 January 2011
In writing 'The Silent State', Heather Brooke planted a giant bomb under the British parliamentary system. After years of diligent enquiry, blocked at every point by the Speaker and Commons officials, it was Brooke who forced into the open the squalid details of the systemic theft of public money by our venal and greedy MPs.

Selling baked beans – why David Cameron failed

Peter Oborne 17 November 2010
Why didn’t Cameron win an outright election victory over Labour earlier this year? Peter Oborne finds Lord Ashcroft’s view that ‘negative campaigning’ and an emphasis on immigration wouldn’t work more compelling than the traditional argument from Conservative Home

The pro-Israel lobby in Britain: full text

Peter Oborne and James Jones 13 November 2009
The authors ask for transparency in Britain's policy towards Israel

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