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Peregrine Worsthorne

All Worsthorne’s men: Hoover, surprisingly nice; Truman, smiling until Perry spoke; Eisenhower, who mocked his name; Kennedy, a hero; LBJ, a boor; Nixon, a friend; Reagan; and the first Bush

Bourbon from Bush, envy from Nixon... and running into Herbert Hoover: encounters with eight presidents

Peregrine Worsthorne 25 October 2014 9:00 am

Encounters with leaders of the free world – as a journalist, as a friend, and as a boy running in the hallway

Diary

Peregrine Worsthorne 13 August 2011 12:00 am

Watching the breakdown of law and order on Monday night was an appalling experience. It was a reminder of Berlin…

Cleared on all counts

Peregrine Worsthorne 16 October 2010 12:00 am

Since the main purpose on earth of the Conservative party was, and still should be, to keep Britain’s ancient and…

Diary

Peregrine Worsthorne 14 August 2010 12:00 am

Peregrine Worsthorne opens his diary

Putting the Boot in

Peregrine Worsthorne 18 March 2008 12:00 am

Peregrine Worsthorne on Stephen Robinson's biography of Bill Deedes

Conservative iconoclasts required

Peregrine Worsthorne 11 December 2007 1:08 pm

Peregrine Worsthorne

Blindfolds and mindmists

Peregrine Worsthorne 19 November 2005 12:00 am

Without the existence of ‘apparently [my italics] sophisticated circles’, which the great historian and poet Robert Conquest also calls ‘an…

All human life is here except politics

Peregrine Worsthorne 23 October 2004 12:00 am

Unfortunately for this volume commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Daily Telegraph, most people today are keener to read about…

The race of the thoroughbreds

Peregrine Worsthorne 22 May 2004 12:00 am

I read every page, every line of this very long book with sustained interest and pleasure. It is a collective…

Family values under the hammer

Peregrine Worsthorne 18 October 2003 12:00 am

In the course of John Campbell’s superb second volume of his Margaret Thatcher biography, he poses the question of what…

Kennedy’s finest hour

Peregrine Worsthorne 19 October 2002 12:00 am

Peregrine Worsthorne on the excitement and romance of being in Washington 40 years ago during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Too much and too late

Peregrine Worsthorne 28 September 2002 12:00 am

By the criteria of the day before yesterday, the late William Whitelaw, a much loved Tory politician who served as…

Politics

Peregrine Worsthorne 7 September 2002 12:00 am

This being the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, I feel that prudence requires anyone writing…

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