Newspapers
Press night
Sam Mendes once said there is no such thing as the history of British theatre, only the history of British…
Do Nikkei and the FT really share the same journalistic values?
It’s nearly 30 years since I worked in Japan, but I still have a few words of the language and…
Let’s pay for the BBC content we use
What follows is a proposal for reducing the BBC licence fee and improving the corporation’s output while saving the British…
Diary
My husband says I only write books in order to have a launch party. Not so. I also write books…
Your problems solved
Q. My partner, a leading political commentator on a national newspaper, recently agreed to shave off his hair at the…
On the cusp
‘A stalker who dressed a pillow “mannequin” in his ex’s nurse’s uniform, then sent her a picture, has been told…
Je suis Page 3
‘I for one would be sorry to see them go,’ wrote George Orwell. ‘They are a sort of saturnalia, a harmless…
Existential threat
In the endless game of word association that governs vocabulary, the current favourite as a partner of existential is threat.…
Diary
Soon after I joined the Sun as managing editor (among other things, I used to review novels for The Spectator),…
The lost pleasures of reading a proper newspaper
The internet is a frighteningly efficient place for hunter-gathering – but the pleasures of undirected browsing are harder to find online
You shouldn’t watch Dapper Laughs. But you really shouldn’t let the likes of me stop you
As you’ll know by now, I’m big on thinking the right things. Should a thought strike me that m’colleague Rod…
The White Widow myth
Samantha Lewthwaite almost certainly isn’t as monstrous as the papers say. And she definitely isn’t as important
Eight presidents
Encounters with leaders of the free world – as a journalist, as a friend, and as a boy running in the hallway
Our suicidal media
Civil war within the British press threatens a free society
Gaudy notebook
As the BA flight from Warsaw landed at Heathrow, I felt a little tremor of anxiety, though it wasn’t anything…
Murder porn
It’s time to stand up against the self-righteous sharing of videos of beheading and other gruesome violence
Stand
‘Boris Johnson broke cover yesterday to declare that he will run for parliament,’ the Times reported last week. The Mirror…
Diary
Sport is like love: it can only really hurt you if you care. Or for that matter, bring joy. You…
Why it’s right to criticise the newly dead
I could start by remarking that we should not speak ill of the dead, quoting the pertinent Latin phrase: de…
Investment: Confessions of a share tipper
When I get it right, I shout about it. And when I get it wrong? Well, just between us…
Diary
The week leading up to publication is a strange time for any author. You subject yourself to doing everything from…
Diary
Last October, in these very pages, I wrote with what is now annoying prescience, ‘Like almost everyone else in the…
Dinner with the editors
Moro (‘moorish’ or ‘sexist’) is a Spanish restaurant on Exmouth Market, near the bones of the old Guardian and Observer…
What’s bad about giving people what they want?
Since I landed my new job as executive editor at Breitbart London, my old Fleet Street friends and colleagues have…
Dear Sirs and Madams
Peter Oborne 4 July 2015 9:00 am
In praise of the old-fashioned letter-writer