Peregrine Worsthorne

Articles by Peregrine Worsthorne

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Celebrities, socialists and the stinking mob

  • 05 February 2009
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The view from the top

  • 06 November 2008

The Anatomist: the Autobiography of Anthony Sampson Politico's, 416pp, £19.99

Private affairs

  • 24 October 2005

The Duff Cooper Diaries Edited by John Julius Norwich Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 512pp, £20 ISBN 0297848437

Trouble in the ranks. By the time Margaret Thatcher finished with the Conservative Party, the aristocrats had been banished by free-market zealots who made it unelectable. Peregrine Worsthorne laments the demise of the old-style Tories, who at least served to restrain corporate greed

  • 28 March 2005
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The Strange Death of Tory England Geoffrey Wheatcroft Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 318pp, £20 ISBN 0713998016

In the shadows

  • 14 February 2005

Harold Nicolson Norman Rose Jonathan Cape, 383pp, £20 ISBN 0224062182

A necessary evil

  • 07 June 2004

Edward Teller: the real Dr Strangelove Peter Goodchild Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 467pp, £25 ISBN 0297607340

In sickness and in wealth. In today's climate of triumphant global capitalism, Britain's meritocracy is even more dangerous, exclusive and out of touch with ordinary people than the aristocracy it replaced. Is it time for Old Toryism to make a comeback?

  • 26 April 2004

Who Runs This Place?: the anatomy of Britain in the 21st century Anthony Sampson John Murray, 416pp, £20 ISBN 0719565642

The secret history. Once a terrorist and assassin, Alexander Pell convinced all who met him that he was a model American citizen. Peregrine Worsthorne on a remarkable double life

  • 12 May 2003

The Degaev Affair: terror and treason in tsarist Russia Richard Pipes Yale University Press, 153pp, £16.95 ISBN 0300098480

Time to speak for England. Peregrine Worsthorne on why Max Hastings should never have been editor of the high Tory Daily Telegraph and why that paper is now edging towards self-destruction

  • 21 October 2002

Editor: an inside story of newspapers Max Hastings Macmillan, 398pp, £20 ISBN 0333908376

Insider gossip

  • 30 September 2002

Panorama Richard Lindley Politico's, 404pp, £18.99 ISBN 1902301803

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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