Friday 5 November 2010

Peter Oborne - Nobbled Or Just Accepting His Thirty Pieces Of Silver?

Having joined the Telegraph from the Mail, Peter Oborne seems to have undergone a 'Damascene' conversion!

The question is asked following his op-ed piece in today's Telegraph, when compared to this, written only last July - and this, written just days earlier.

He who pays the piper...........? So much for 'journalistic integrity'!

Update: This quote from Samizdata is priceless:
"That paragraph is written in a tone of approval. Now, unless I have missed something, wasn't Mr Oborne the man who wrote a book a few years ago condemning the rise of a political class that tended to associate its own material interests with those of the country? I remember at the time pointing out that Oborne failed to give due weight to the significance of the European Union in all this. Well, now it appears he has become a sort of cheerleader for Britain giving ever greater sums of money to countries determined to pursue wrongheaded economic policies.
Well, it was nice knowing you, Peter."

2 comments:

James Higham said...

It just says all that needs to be said about the type.

Witterings from Witney said...

JH, they really are despicable, are they not?

MW, In hindsight a few minutes later, thats what I thought too?