Bourbon from Bush, envy from Nixon... and running into Herbert Hoover: encounters with eight presidents
Encounters with leaders of the free world – as a journalist, as a friend, and as a boy running in the hallway
Diary
Watching the breakdown of law and order on Monday night was an appalling experience. It was a reminder of Berlin…
Cleared on all counts
Since the main purpose on earth of the Conservative party was, and still should be, to keep Britain’s ancient and…
Diary
Peregrine Worsthorne opens his diary
Putting the Boot in
Peregrine Worsthorne on Stephen Robinson's biography of Bill Deedes
Conservative iconoclasts required
Peregrine Worsthorne
Blindfolds and mindmists
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
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
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
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 on the excitement and romance of being in Washington 40 years ago during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Too much and too late
By the criteria of the day before yesterday, the late William Whitelaw, a much loved Tory politician who served as…
Politics
This being the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, I feel that prudence requires anyone writing…
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