Peregrine Worsthorne

All human life is here except politics

  • One Hundred and Fifty Years of the Daily Telegraph, 1855-2005

    Christopher Howse

    Ebury, pp. 256

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Peregrine Worsthorne
Peregrine Worsthorne was a journalist, author and broadcaster. He was editor of the Sunday Telegraph from 1986 to 1989. He famously wrote of his sacking in The Spectator: over lunch at Claridge’s with Andrew Knight, while eating his favourite dish of poached eggs.

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