Peregrine Worsthorne

Putting the Boot in

Peregrine Worsthorne on Stephen Robinson's biography of Bill Deedes

issue 22 March 2008

  • The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes

    Stephen Robinson

    Little Brown, pp. 480

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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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