Peter Alan Oborne (/ˈoʊbɔːrn/; born 11 July 1957) is a British journalist and broadcaster. He is the former chief political commentator of The Daily Telegraph, from which he resigned in early 2015. He is author of The Rise of Political Lying, The Triumph of the Political Class, and The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism, and along with Frances Weaver of the pamphlet Guilty Men. He has also authored several books about cricket. He writes a political column for Middle East Eye and a diary column for the Byline Times.
Books in order of publication:
Alastair Campbell: New Labour and the Rise of the Media Class – 1999
Basil D’Oliveira : Cricket and Controversy: The Untold Story – 2004
The Rise of Political Lying – 2005
The Triumph of the Political Class – 2007
The Use and Abuse of Terror: The Construction of a False Narrative on Domestic Terror Threat – 2006
Guilty Men – 2011
Churchill’s Legacy: The Conservative Case for the Human Rights Act. – 2009
A Dangerous Delusion: Why the West are Wrong about Nuclear Iran. – 2013
Wounded Tiger: The History of Cricket in Pakistan – 2014
Not the Chilcot Report – 2016
White on Green: Celebrating the Drama of Pakistan Cricket – 2016
How Trump Thinks: His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language – 2017
The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism – 2021
The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong About Islam – 2022