Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne (b. 1957) is a British columnist with conservative newspapers the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail. He is the author of The Rise of Political Lying ( Free Press, 2005) and The Triumph of the Political Class (Simon and Schuster, 2007).
Updated: 28 April 2011
Euroscepticism has gone mainstream in the British Conservative party, making a referendum on Britain’s continued membership of the Union increasingly likely. But do PM David Cameron and his EU-hostile ministers really know where they want to go? asks a Daily Telegraph columnist. 
Sunk into a violent depression, Greece is being bled dry by an “incompetent” EU and its “callous” Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, accuses Peter Oborne, in a vehement broadside. 
As the eurozone staggers from one crisis to the next, is this the end? Two British writers consider Eurosceptics have been vindicated, and are calling for the single currency’s supporters to be held to account. 
As more and more sordid revelations emerge of British tabloid News of the World’s culture of phone-hacking, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator argues that the buck stops with PM David Cameron, who is personally implicated in press baron Rupert Murdoch’s social clique.
Irrational, sentimental absurd – and natural. Not only has the British monarchy has survived the 20th century, but it is still the cement of the nation, marvels the very traditionalist Daily Telegraph on the eve of the future King's wedding.