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Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born December 22, 1923) is a British Conservative journalist, writer and broadcaster. He was educated at Stowe public school, Peterhouse, Cambridge University and Magdalen College, Oxford University. Worsthorne spent the largest portion of his career at the Telegraph newspaper titles, eventually becoming editor of The Sunday Telegraph. He was unwillingly retired from the newspaper in 1997, but Worsthorne remains active as a contributor to various publications and a website. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ... December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Stowe is the name of several places in the United Kingdom: Stowe, Buckinghamshire Stowe, Gloucestershire Stowe, Herefordshire Stowe, Northamptonshire Stowe, Shropshire Stowe, Staffordshire and in Canada: Stowe, Alberta and also in the United States of America: Stowe, Pennsylvania Stowe, Vermont These should not be confused with several places called Stow... The term public school has different (and in some cases contradictory) meanings due to regional differences. ... Full name Peterhouse Motto - Named after St Peters Church (now little St Marys Church) Previous names - Established 1284 Sister College Merton College Master The Lord Wilson of Tillyron Location Trumpington Street Undergraduates 271 Graduates 128 Homepage Boatclub Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Magdalen College could be Magdalen College, Oxford Magdalene College, Cambridge This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ...

Early life and career

Peregrine Worsthorne was the son of a Belgian Roman Catholic father (born Alexander Koch de Gooreynd), who had anglicised the family name two years before Worsthorne was born, and an English mother; the couple had another son, who would take the name Simon Towneley and be Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire from 1976–1996. The boys were baptized as Roman Catholics, but did not attend denominational schools.

Peregrine Worsthorne's parents divorced when he was five years old, and the family butler effectively raised him for several years. Priscilla Reyntiens, his mother was the grand daughter of an Earl. She then married Sir Montagu Norman, who was Governor of the Bank of England in the 1930s. Worsthorne's father reverted his name to Koch de Gooreynd in 1937, and lived in what was then Rhodesia for some years; Worsthorne discovered in the early 'sixties that a half-brother had been born during this period. Priscilla Cecilia Maria Reyntiens (March 20, 1899-1991) was a London councillor and a board member and supporter of mental health and nursing institutions. ... Montagu C. Norman, Time cover, 1929 Montagu Collet Norman, 1st Baron Norman, DSO (6 September 1871–4 February 1950), was a distinguished English banker, best known for his role as the Governor of the Bank of England from 1920 to 1944. ... The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom, sometimes known as The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or The Old Lady. The nearest London Underground station is Bank station. ...

While at Stowe, Worsthorne has asserted that he was seduced by a fellow pupil, the jazz singer and writer George Melly, on the art room chaise-longue (Worsthorne (1977) p90-91), an accusation which Melly has always denied. Worsthorne went up to Peterhouse in 1942, having won an exhibition to read History, and studied under the Conservative academic Herbert Butterfield, who was among his tutors. He was called up for war service after three terms, as was normal practice; Worsthorne was rusticated during the last term. However, in army training he injured his shoulder, and, as he had been admitted to a hospital in Oxford, he was able to persuade Magdalen College to admit him for a term. George Melly (born: 17 August 1926 in Liverpool, England) is a British jazz and blues singer. ... Full name Peterhouse Motto - Named after St Peters Church (now little St Marys Church) Previous names - Established 1284 Sister College Merton College Master The Lord Wilson of Tillyron Location Trumpington Street Undergraduates 271 Graduates 128 Homepage Boatclub Peterhouse is the oldest college in the University of Cambridge. ... This article is about the year. ... Herbert Butterfield (October 7, 1900-July 20, 1979) was a British historian and philosopher of history (see philosophy of history) who is remembered chiefly for a slim volume entitled The Whig Interpretation of History 1931. ... Rustication is a term used at British universities, particularly Oxford University and Cambridge University, for a disciplinary action consisting of a temporary expulsion from the university. ... College name Magdalen College Named after Mary Magdalene Established 1458 Sister College Magdalene College President Professor David Clary FRS JCR President Iain Anstess Undergraduates 395 Graduates 230 Homepage Boatclub Magdalen College (pronounced ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ...

He saw active service in the Italian campaign with Conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott,[1] and was part of the occupying force in Hamburg for three months in 1945. Worsthorne returned to Peterhouse and took his degree a year early, gaining a lower second. Michael Portillo's admission of youthful homosexuality in 1999, caused Worsthorne to reminesce on his own same-sex activities while at Cambridge, though in modern terminology, he could only be described as having been situationally gay [2]; Worsthorne had previously referred to this history in his autobiography published in 1993. The Italian Campaign of World War II was the name of Allied operations in and around Italy, from 1943 to the end of the war. ... Michael Joseph Oakeshott (11 December 1901 - 19 December 1990) was an English philosopher with particular interests in political thought, the nature of history as a form of knowledge, the philosophies of education and religion, and aesthetics. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The Right Honourable Michael Denzil Xavier Portillo (born 26 May 1953) is a journalist, broadcaster, and former British Conservative politician. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Situational sexual behavior is sexual behavior of a kind that is different from what is usual for that person or from what this person eventually prefers, due to a social environment that permits or encourages those acts. ...

Early journalistic career

Worsthorne entered the newspaper industry as a sub-editor on the Glasgow Herald in 1946, on a two-year training scheme initiated for the benefit of Oxbridge graduates. He then worked for The Times from 1948 on the Foreign Desk, again working as a sub-editor in his first year there. Unfortunately for Worsthorne he developed a habit of getting facts wrong, and he was called in to the office of the newspaper's then editor William Casey. He has written that Casey gave him a gentle put-down: "Dear Boy, The Times is a stable of hacks and a thoroughbred like you will never be at home here"(Worsthorne (1999) 117). The Lighthouse, Charles Mackintoshs Glasgow Herald building The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, Scotland. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Oxbridge is a portmanteau name for the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the two oldest in the United Kingdom and the English-speaking universe. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under the name The Times since 1788; it is the original Times newspaper. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ...

He became a correspondent in Washington (1950-52), where his admiration for Senator Joe McCarthy's pursuit of communist subversion in the United States government eventually led to a split with the more circumspect Times, and in 1953 he joined the Daily Telegraph. Despite loving to a newspaper move suited to his politics, in actuality, Worsthorne left The Times with some regret as he felt that working for any other title in Fleet Street could only be anti-climatic, and indeed working conditions at The Telegraph were inferior to those at The Times, then based at Printing House Square. At this time he also contributed articles to the magazine Encounter, which was then covertly funded by the CIA. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Joseph McCarthy This article is about the American politician. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... Fleet Street road sign Fleet Street in 1890 Fleet Street in 2005 Fleet Street is a famous London street, named after the River Fleet. ... Encounter was a literary magazine, founded in 1953 by Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol. ... The CIAs seal features an eagle atop a sixteen-point compass. ...

On McCarthy, in an article titled "America: Conscience or Shield?" in November 1954, he put forward the view that America's flaws were something the British would have to accept for their own benefit on the basis that: "legend created an American god. The god has failed. But unlike the Communist God which, on closer examination, turned out to be a devil, the American God has just become human" (quoted in Saunders 204, also summarised in Worsthorne (1993) 161-62). More recently he has favourably compared a post-war America which "put its faith in the [intellectual elites]" over a Britain dedicated to the "masses".[3] 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

At The Sunday Telegraph

In 1961, Worsthorne was appointed as the first deputy editor of The Sunday Telegraph; the job was actually less impressive than the description implies, and in his autobiography Worsthorne expresses some regret that he rejected an offer to become editor of The Yorkshire Post. In due course though, he became a leading columnist on his newspaper, taking a right-wing High-Tory stance on the world around him. 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ... In politics, right-wing, the political right, or simply the right, are terms which refer, with no particular precision, to the segment of the political spectrum in opposition to left-wing politics. ...

As an imperialist, Worsthorne mourns the loss of the British Empire; he once argued that the public's acceptance of decolonisation was paralleled by their acquiescence to socialism.[4] He could be blatantly offensive to liberal sensibilities. Of the Six-Day War in 1967 he wrote in an article entitled 'Triumph of the Civilised': "last week a tiny Western community, surrounded by immensely superior numbers of the underdeveloped peoples, has shown itself able to impose its will on the Arabs today almost as effortlessly as the first whites were able to do on the Afro-Asian native in the imperial heyday".[5] The following year, after Enoch Powell's speech in April 1968 on the perceived threat of non-white immigration, he argued that voluntary repatriation was the "only honest course" (quoted in Greenslade 234). Combatants Israel Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq Commanders Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Uzi Narkiss, Israel Tal, Ariel Sharon Abdel Hakim Amer, Abdul Munim Riad, Sharif Zaid Ibn Shaker, Hafez al-Assad Strength 50,000 troops (264,000 including mobilized reservists); 197 combat aircraft Egypt 150,000 troops; Syria 75,000; Jordan... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... The Right Honourable John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16, 1912 – February 8, 1998) was a right-wing British politician and Conservative Party MP between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...

More recently, in common with his friend the journalist Paul Johnson, he has advocated the recolonisation of former colonies, in Worsthorne's case, the "poor countries" of Africa.[6][7] In 1965 though, he had defended the declaration of UDI by the white-minority government of Ian Smith. In an article on the Sunday following the declaration, Worsthorne wrote: Paul Johnson (born Paul Bede Johnson on November 2, 1928 in Manchester, England) is a British Roman Catholic historian, journalist and author. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia. ... The Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was signed on November 11, 1965 by the white minority goverment of Ian Smith, whose Rhodesian Front party opposed rushed moves by the United Kingdom towards black majority rule in the then British colony. ... The Rt Hon Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, 1964 (official portrait) The Right Honourable Ian Douglas Smith, GCLM ID, (born April 8, 1919) was the Premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia from April 13, 1964 to November 11, 1965 and the Prime Minister of Rhodesia (now...

Just as in the light of history Lord North has been judged wrong for refusing to give independence to the white slave owners in America, so will Mr Harold Wilson be for refusing to give it to the white supremacists of Southern Africa. (quoted in Worsthorne (1993) 236)

He was, however, shrewd enough in 1956, after the Suez war, to see that "a social system that seemed right and proper while it produced a nation capable of leading the world will look very different when that nation is in decline…what is the point of maintaining a Queen Empress without an empire to rule over. Everything [..] about the British class system begins to look foolish and tacky when related to a second class power on the decline" (quoted in Cannadine 189). 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Combatants Israel, France, United Kingdom Egypt Commanders Moshe Dayan (CoS of the IDF) General Sir Charles Keightley (C-in-C), Vice-Admiral Pierre Barjot (Deputy) Gamal Abdel Nasser Strength 45,000 British, 34,000 French, 175,000 Israeli 300,000 Egyptians Casualties 189 Israelis KIA, unknown number WIA, 16 British...

Unlike many on the right, such as Powell, he initially came to accept entry to the (then) EEC. After the publication of the Heath Governments 1971 White Paper, he wrote in a Daily Telegraph column that the "Europeans" deserved to win in the battle over British entry. "The sceptics have failed to produce an alternative faith", he argued (quoted in Greenslade 293). By the time of the Single European Act in 1992 he had adopted a Eurosceptic faith, "Twenty years ago, when the process began, […] there was no question of losing sovereignty. That was a lie, or at any rate, a dishonest obfuscation",[8] in contradiction of the Treaty of Rome's commitment (1957) to an "ever closer union". The Right Honourable John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16, 1912 – February 8, 1998) was a right-wing British politician and Conservative Party MP between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. ... The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ... Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), soldier and politician, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... A white paper can be an authoritative report on a major issue, as by a team of experts; a government report outlining policy; or a short treatise whose purpose is to educate industry customers. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Treaty of Rome signing ceremony Signatures in the Treaty The Treaty of Rome refers to the treaty which established the European Economic Community (EEC) and was signed by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg on March 25, 1957. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On BBC Television's teatime Nationwide programme in March 1973, he was the second person on the nation's television to utter the f-word, when he was asked if the general public were concerned that a Conservative Government minister Lord Lambton (his future father-in-law) had shared a bed with two call girls.[9] BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1936. ... Nationwide can refer to: Nationwide Building Society, a building society located in the United Kingdom. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Fuck is an English word which, when used literally, means to have sexual intercourse and is generally considered extremely vulgar. ... Anthony Claud Frederick Lambton (born 10 July 1922) was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Berwick_upon_Tweed from 1951 until 1973, and a cousin of Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the former Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary, and. ...

Improbably, Worsthorne is thus between Kenneth Tynan (in 1965) and the Sex Pistols, (December 1976) in helping to break one particular taboo. It was though, to cost him the opportunity to edit the Daily Telegraph, as its then owner Lord Hartwell strongly objected to Worsthorne's comment and was persuaded to bar him from appearing on television for six months. Worsthorne was, however, promoted to Associate Editor in 1976. Kenneth Peacock Tynan (April 2, 1927 - July 26, 1980), was an influential (and occasionally controversial) British theatre critic and author. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Sex Pistols were, despite their short existence, a very influential British punk band. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1976 calendar). ...

Worsthorne's belief in authority and hierarchy led him to argue in 1978 that the possible advance of "socialism" created an "urgent need…for the state to regain control over the people, to re-exert its authority…" (quoted in Honderich 67). His respect could morph in to a condoning of authoritarianism. He defended the way Pinochet's forces had conducted the 1973 coup in Chile (where reports of torture and worse were common) and hoped the army would launch a coup in Britain if a radical minority socialist government should ever enter power (as quoted in Beckett[10][11]). 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Authoritarianism describes a form of government characterized by strict obedience to the authority of the state, which often maintains and enforces social control through the use of oppressive measures. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ...

Worsthorne though, in 1978, did not see the potential for elements of his views (the end of socialism as an alternative in Britain) to be reflected in the forthcoming change of government, in what the political scientist Andrew Gamble came to call "the free economy and the strong state", possibly because his core sensibilities pre-dated the development of capitalism itself. He wrote just before Thatcher's election the next year that her government "is not going to make all that much difference... Her proposals amount in effect to very little: a controlled experiment in using market methods to improve the workings of social democracy" (quoted in Greenslade 362). 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Capitalism has been defined in various, but similar, ways by different theorists. ...

In practice Worsthorne had an ambivalence about the Thatcher era; his reference to what he saw as Thatcher's "bourgeois triumphalism" early in his Sunday Telegraph resulted in Worsthorne and his paper being "out of favour" at Number 10 for some time (Worsthorne (1993) 256). More recently, in 2005 he argued that Thatcher's and "utterly un-Tory ideological excesses left such a bad taste in the mouth of the English people as to make Conservatism henceforth unpalatable, except as a last resort in the absence of a less dire alternative".[12] For Worsthorne the elite should "keep a country recognisably the same" (Honderich [his italics] 2). On July 23, 1995 though, he was arguing in an article entitled "A Police State Beats a Welfare State" that: "I am not suggesting that we are going to have to move straight from the welfare state to the police state, but such a suggestion is far nearer the mark than all the alternative systems of welfare"[13] and that "welfarism is an idea whose time has passed.... For many of 'our people,' life in the late 20th and in the 21st Century will be repulsive, brutal, and short as well."[14] 10 Downing Street, commonly known as Number 10, is arguably the most famous street address in London. ... Template:Diffgggtgerent calendars 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

After Conrad Black's holding company gained 80% of the company stock in 1986, Worsthorne was finally able to became editor of The Sunday Telegraph, though in the end only for three years. In 1989, when the Telegraph titles briefly became a seven-day operation under Max Hastings, with the bulk of the Sunday Telegraph being edited by Trevor Grove. Worsthorne's responsibilities were reduced to the three comment pages by the Telegraph Group's Editor-in-Chief Andrew Knight. The comment pages' lofty ethos, whose contributor's included Bruce Anderson, was captured at the time by the nickname of Worsthorne College. This arrangement continued until September 1991 when Worsthorne's commitments were reduced to his weekly column. Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour OC, PC, (born August 25, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec), is a British biographer, financier and newspaper magnate. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sir Max Hastings is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. ... Andrew Stephen Bower Knight (born 1st November 1939 in England) is a journalist, editor, and media magnate. ... Bruce Anderson is a conservative political columnist. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Despite his public school and Cambridge University experiences, Worsthorne had a long history of being critic of homosexual activity, castigating Roy Jenkins in particular, in an 1982 editorial, for his tolerance of "queers". [15] At the time of the controversy over Section 28 in 1988 he appeared on the BBC Radio Three's Third Ear programme and persistently referred to gay men as "them", which had the effect of the other interviewee, Ian McKellen coming out by saying, "I am one of them". [16] [17] Worsthorne also claimed, on the programme that not being gay was "a close run thing" for some of his contemporaries. Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (November 11, 1920 – January 5, 2003) was a British politician and a prominent Labour Member of Parliament in the 1960s and 1970s, and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1988 Sir Ian McKellen with Michael Cashman at the Gay Rights March on Manchester in protest of Section 28. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... BBC Radio 3 is a domestic UK BBC radio station, which devotes most of its schedule to classical music. ... Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CBE, (born May 25, 1939) is a highly acclaimed stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. ... Coming out of the closet (very often shortened to coming out in winking reference to the public introduction of debutantes) describes the voluntary public announcement of ones sexual orientation, sexual attractions, gender identity, or (less commonly) paraphilia. ...

In 1990 Worsthorne was the defendant in a libel case brought by Andrew Neil and The Sunday Times, over an editorial in The Sunday Telegraph which claimed, as a result of Neil's involvement with Pamella Bordes, that "playboys should not be editors". Neil won the defamation case, but with relatively derisory damages of £1000, and his paper won 60p, its then cover price. This article is about the year. ... Andrew Ferguson Neil (born May 21, 1949) is a British journalist and broadcaster. ... The Sunday Times is the name of several Sunday newspapers. ... This article concerns the British newspaper. ... Pamella Bordes (born Pamela Singh c. ...

Recent years

Worsthorne's column in the Sunday Telegraph continued until 1997, when his column was discontinued, during the editorship of Dominic Lawson. From that point, Worsthorne became critical of Black for his newspapers unsparing defence of Israel and the foreign policies of the United States. This article concerns the British newspaper. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Honourable Dominic Ralph Campden Lawson (born December 17, 1956) is a British journalist, the son of former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lawson and brother of TV chef and writer Nigella Lawson. ...

Worsthorne has modified some of his previous views. Indeed he has gone as far as to say, relating to the changes in British society that "this is not a country I recognise or am particularly fond of any more",[18] and no longer views himself as a nationalist.[19]

He has also changed his view of the acceptability of the nuclear deterrence: "would some historian emerging centuries later from the post thermonuclear war dark ages have judged (pressing the button) morally justified or so evil as to dwarf even the most monstrous inequities of Hitler, Stalin and Mao?... How could we have believed anything so preposterous?". [20] He also now accepts the possibility of same sex marriages, believing they allow gay people to form "stable relationships".[21], and even advocated that Conservatives should embrace political correctness as a form of modern courtesy.[22] Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ...

Worsthorne regularly contributes book reviews to the New Statesman, although his place on the political right remains. In 2005 Worsthorne's expressed the opinion in his book on the aristocracy that, "A commitment to goodwill is what is missing today in all walks of life, public and private" should take the place of aspirational objectives that may be mere greed. "There will be no revival of the Tory cause until once again it can be associated with noble ideals in all walks of life, high as well as low". [23] The New Statesman is a left-of-centre political weekly published in London. ... Template:Diffgggtgerent calendars 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

He currently writes a weekly on-line column for The First Post[24]

Private life

Peregrine Worsthorne married Claudie Bertrande Baynham (née Colame) in 1950, with whom he had a daughter and step-son; Worsthorne though had several affairs. Claudie died in 1990. He remarried in 1991, the same year that he was knighted. Worsthorne's second wife is the architectural writer Lucinda Lambton and the couple live in Buckinghamshire. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lady Lucinda Lambton (born 10 May 1943) is a British writer, photographer, television presenter and producer. ... Map of Bucks (1904) Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is a county in South East England. ...

References

• Andy Beckett (2002) Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's Hidden History , Faber
• David Cannadine (1998 [2000(3)]) Class in Britain, Yale University Press [Penguin]
• Roy Greenslade (2003 [2004]) Press Gang: How Newspapers Male Profits from Propaganda, Pan
• Ted Honderich (1990 [1991]) Conservatism, Hamish Hamilton [Penguin]
• Frances Stonor Saunders (1999 [2000]) Who Paid the Piper: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War, Granta (US edition: The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters, 2000 The New Press)

David Cannadine (born 1950) is a British historian, known for a number of books including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism; and as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially the British monarchy. ... Ted Honderich is a Canadian-born British academic philosopher, of Mennonite origin, who moved to London in 1959 to work with Alfred Ayer. ...

Bibliography

• Mary Wilson (et al) (1977) The Queen, Penguin [contributor]
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1958) Dare democracy disengage?, Conservative Political Centre [pamphlet]
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1971) The Socialist Myth, Cassell
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1973) Edwina Sandys, Crane Kalman Gallery [exhibition catalogue introduction]
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1977) "Boy Made Man", in George MacDonald Fraser (ed) The World Of the Public School (pp. 79-96), Weidenfeld & Nicolson /St Martins Press (US edition)
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1978) "Too Much Freedom", in Maurice Cowling (ed) Conservative Essays, Cassell
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1980) Peregrinations: Selected pieces by Peregrine Worsthorne, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1987) By the Right, Brophy Educational [selections from his Sunday Telegraph columns]
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1988) The politics of manners and the uses of inequality: Autumn address, Centre for Policy Studies [pamphlet]
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1993) Tricks of Memory: An Autobiography, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Peregrine Worsthorne (1999) "Dumbing Up" in Stephen Glover (ed), Secrets of the Press: Journalists on Journalism Allen Lane pp. 115-24 [published in paperback as The Penguin Book of Journalism: Secrets of the Press Penguin 2000]
• Peregrine Worsthorne (2004) In Defence of Aristocracy Harper Collins [published in paperback as Democracy Needs Aristocracy Perennial 2005]

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External link

• Worsthorne's time at Cambridge and Oxford (.pdf file)