A Tale of Two Peters

One of the curious things to have emerge from the calling of a snap UK General Election is the diverging reactions of 2 journalists who happen to share the name Peter, Peter Hitchens and Peter Oborne. Peter Oborne writes for the Daily Mail, perhaps best known for his rabid loathing of Tony Blair. Oborne wrote an article this week in which he called the election a chance to bury the Labour party for good even though he has praised Jeremy Corbyn in the past. Prior to joining the Daily Mail Oborne was at the Daily Telegraph where he wrote articles giving fulsome praise to David Cameron in the early days of his Premiership. Oborne left the Telegraph over what he believed was the burying of stories concerning HSBC. Since he has been at the Daily Mail Oborne has pretty much written unflattering articles about Cameron. You can not write about Peter Hitchens without mentioning his late brother Christopher. the 2 were complete opposites of each other with Peter Right wing God fearing man with Christopher being a Left wing aggressive atheist. While you may call Peter Hitchens right wing he is no fan of the Conservative party having been scornful of Cameron ever since he became Tory leader. In his latest article Hitchens calls the surprise announcement by May as an attempt to bury news about campaign spending at the last General Election. If it is found that the spending that is being srcuntised has broken the rules they may be criminal charges. It curious to think that Obrone left one newspaper because of what he called the burying of news story only to join an another where he has praised some thing that has been called by Hitchens the burying of another