Peter Oborne
Peter Oborne won best commentary/blogging in 2017 and was named freelancer of the year in 2016 at the Online Media Awards for articles he wrote for Middle East Eye. He also was British Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2013. He resigned as chief political columnist of the Daily Telegraph in 2015. His books include The Triumph of the Political Class, The Rise of Political Lying, and Why the West is Wrong about Nuclear Iran.
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Photo: Mohammed Morsi raises his hands from behind the defendant's cage as the judge reads out his verdict sentencing him and more than 100 other defendants to death at the police academy in Cairo in May 2015 (AFP)
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Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli far-right politician and leader of the Jewish Power Party, has visited Al-Aqsa Mosque's courtyards many times before. But never as a minister in the Israeli...![William Hague arrives to take their seats inside Westminster Abbey in London on September 19, 2022 [GEOFF PUGH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/GettyImages-1243349908-scaled-e1665508922459.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Former British Foreign Secretary William Hague has sensationally stepped into the controversy of whether to move the UK's Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, warning Liz Truss that...![Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby [Wikipedia]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Justin-Welby.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Church leaders in the UK have jointly expressed alarm at the "potential impact" if the British government moves its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In a rare intervention,...![Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid (R) meets with British Prime Minister Liz Truss (L) in New York, United States on September 22, 2022 [Israeli Government Press Office/Anadolu Agency]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/AA-20220922-28963961-28963960-LIZ_TRUSS_YAIR_LAPID_MEETING_IN_NEW_YORK-e1663859528335.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Middle East Eye obtains briefing note sent out by Conservative Friends of Israel making case for moving embassy from Tel Aviv![Conservative leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt speaks during Britain's Next Prime Minister: The ITV Debate at Riverside Studios on July 17, 2022 in London, England. [Jonathan Hordle / ITV via Getty Images]](https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/GettyImages-1241960847.jpg?resize=500%2C333&quality=85&strip=all&zoom=1&ssl=1)
Six years ago, Tory Zac Goldsmith led one of the most bigoted campaigns in modern British history when he ran to be mayor of London. Rather than play straight, he concentrated...