Peter Oborne

Complicit. My book on Britain's role in the destruction of Gaza is out now and available here orbooks.com/catalog/compli…

Funny how @BBCWorld website always forgets to mention he is a war criminal with an arrest warrant issued by the Hague. You'd have thought it might be considered relevant information? "Netanyahu says Israel will intensify strikes against Hezbollah" bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I have no idea how credible this report is. Up until six months ago, I would have said: bubbe meisses. (Google it). Today, all bets are off. The unthinkable has become thinkable, the thinkable has become possible, and that possible is happening with increasing frequency.

@MrJones66140081 @TomLondon6 Thankyou Mr J!

@TomLondon6 @OborneTweets Got my copy, Mr O and I keep recommending it.

SEE BELOW. This is a brilliant book! It is astonishing and depressing how the mainstream media have failed to review it or to learn from it @OborneTweets

Sean and I will discussing his superb book at the Frontline Club at 6pm on on June 3rd. All welcome!

@_peterriddell Super to hear from you Peter and and thankyou for your generous comments about our book!

@OborneTweets Congratulations to Peter Oborne and Richard Heller on their excellent and thought provoking history of cricket- told me much that I didn’t know and spot on about surrender to finance and erosion of spirit of the game.

@psycholdham thank you for this very apt quote

@OborneTweets "In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning, to borrow the name of the world; as to say, The world says, or There is a speech abroad". Francis Bacon 1625, Of Cunning

The number of anonymous quotes that appear in political stories has risen to a near industrial scale. What's going on? It's a subject that many in the Westminster media would much rather avoid. I examine the problem in my new column for Byline Times: open.substack.com/pub/bylinetime…

Third episode of Double Down Newswatch now out and it’s superb.

Tulsi Gabbard is preparing to step down as Director of National Intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter, capping a tumultuous tenure wsj.com/world/middle-e… via @WSJ

Everybody with an interest in British politics should subscribe at once to Manchester's independent and clearly very troublesome local newspaper, The Mill. More power to its elbow! manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-five…

Political journalists conspire with ministers’ aides to fake multiple sources for stories to give them spurious credibility. Stories quoting three separate sources can be nothing of the sort, a Times journalist alleges. I report for Byline Times: bylinetimes.com/2026/05/22/tim…

More reason than ever to watch Double Down Newswatch! Next episode out later today.

In Sebastia, Palestinians say the Nakba is still ongoing youtu.be/8Y9G1QFYzXo

The international Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant against Bezalel Smotrich, controller of the West Bank, for the crime of Apartheid. Here I am witnessing the ongoing ethnic cleansing:

What is notable is that the torture, sexual abuse and rape of Palestinian prisoners plus impending death penalty did not merit this move.

@jeremycorbyn Will the prime minister be signing?

I have tabled an EDM to congratulate Arsenal for winning the Premier League after 22 years. Big thank you to all the staff behind the scenes: cleaners, coaches, caterers and all the faces we don’t know or see. The Premier League belongs to you all! edm.parliament.uk/early-day-moti…

@TomLondon6 @DalrympleWill @owenjonesjourno Ordered!

'Exterminate All The Brutes' by Sven Lindqvist is an extraordinary book which gives a real insight into how genocides happen Written before the Gaza Genocide but absolutely relevant to it Also readable & short! @DalrympleWill @owenjonesjourno @OborneTweets share.google/yz3McK2NuVyj0x…

@RnaudBertrand So interesting. The political secretary at the Soviet embassy came down to my school in the mid 1970s and gave us a (quite brilliant) talk on the Soviet perspective. This was at the height of the Cold War.

Yet another striking illustration of just how ideologically rigid the West has become compared to what we used to be. This was the obituary The Economist published for Mao in 1976 - at the height of the Cold War. Read this part: "In the final reckoning Mao must be accepted as one of history's great achievers: for devising a peasant-centred revolutionary strategy which enabled China's Communist party to seize power, against Marx's prescriptions, from bases in the countryside; for directing the transformation of China from a feudal society wracked by war and bled by corruption, into a unified egalitarian state where nobody starves; and for reviving national pride and confidence so that China could, in Mao's words, 'stand up' among the great power." Show this text to any Economist "journalists" today - without telling them it's from their own paper - and they'd reply: surely it's "CCP propaganda" 😏 Yes, incredible as it may sound, there used to be a time when Western journalists could assess a geopolitical rival honestly and respectfully without being accused of being a traitor. And this honesty was in no small part a key factor why the West won the Cold War. Today we call honest assessment "propaganda," and we harass, smear, and blacklist people for it. And we're puzzled why the West is in steep decline. Truth matters.

Smotrich confirms ICC seeks his arrest. The first ever warrant for the crime of Apartheid. Netanyahu gave Smotrich control over West Bank. This article explains how Smotrich has used that power. He is a monster who can't be put behind bars too soon: middleeasteye.net/news/settlers-…

Important and humbling article by Patrick Derham in the Times about the transformative potential of G12 plus plus exam linking refugee youth to universities as pioneered by the Alsama Project in Lebanon. Behind paywall but worth buying the paper to read it: