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Peregrine Worsthorne
Sir Peregrine Gerard Worsthorne (born
Early life, school, and military service
Peregrine Worsthorne was born the younger son of Alexander Koch de Gooreynd (himself the son of a Belgian banker) and
Worsthorne's mother divorced his father when he was five years old, and she would soon marry Sir Montagu Norman, then the Governor of the
Worsthorne's biological father reverted his name to Koch de Gooreynd in 1937 and lived in
Worsthorne wrote that while at Stowe he was once seduced by a fellow pupil, the jazz singer and writer
He saw active service in the Italian campaign with the philosopher
Early journalistic career
Worsthorne entered the newspaper industry as a sub-editor on the "
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 "
In a November 1954 article discussing McCarthyism titled "America: Conscience or Shield?", he wrote that America's flaws were something the British would have to accept for their own benefit, because: "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 favourably compared a post-war America which "put its faith in the [intellectual elites] " over a Britain dedicated to the "masses". [cite web|title=The Daily Telegraph|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/05/09/bowor209.xml]
At "The Sunday Telegraph"
In 1961, Worsthorne was appointed as the first deputy editor of "The Sunday Telegraph"; a job with fewer responsibilities than its title implies, and in his autobiography Worsthorne expresses some regret that he rejected an offer to become editor of "
Worsthorne mourned the loss of the British Empire; he once argued that the public's acceptance of decolonisation was paralleled by their acquiescence to socialism. [ [http://liberaltopia.org/?p=1642 Grouchy’s Liberaltopia ] ] Of the
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
Worsthorne initially accepted Britain's entry into the
On the BBC's "Nationwide" programme in March 1973, he was the second person on the nation's television to say "fuck", when 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. [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1141095,00.html Peregrine Worsthorne on swearing on TV | The Guardian | guardian.co.uk ] ] Improbably, Worsthorne was preceded by
Worsthorne argued 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..."Peregrine Worsthorne "Too Much Freedom" in Maurice Cowling "Conservative Essays", 1978, Cassell, 140-54, 149, 148, 147, 140, 154.] in the context of Britain "being allowed to spin into chaos". He was critical of Mrs Thatcher's connection of domestic socialism with the form in the Eastern bloc as he did not perceive this as being in line with the experiences of most of the population (the "untalented majority"). He saw "the needs and values of the strong" as something which "should obsess the popular imagination" of "all healthy societies". He defended the conduct of Pinochet's forces in the 1973 In 1978 Worsthorne 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 Worsthorne has since come to criticise quite strongly the legacy of 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 the "Telegraph" titles briefly became a seven-day operation under Despite his own experience at his public school, Worsthorne long criticised homosexual activity, castigating He now accepts the possibility of same sex marriages, believing they allow gay people to form "stable relationships" [http://bcn.bi.org/issue23/biwatch.html] and even argued that Conservatives should embrace In 1990 Worsthorne was the defendant in a libel case brought by Recent years Worsthorne's column in the "Sunday Telegraph" was discontinued in 1997 during the editorship of On the changing Britain, he has said that, "this is not a country I recognise or am particularly fond of any more", [ [http://www.minettemarrin.com/minettemarrin/1997/10/no_wonder_the_q.html Minette Marrin: No wonder the Queen feels desolate ] ] and that he no longer views himself as a nationalist. [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4449_128/ai_56022554] Dead link|date=March 2008] Worsthorne has embraced the Euro federalist option for Britain's future. [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_199909/ai_n8855093 Only a federal Europe can stop the abolition of Britain | Spectator, The | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ] 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?". [ [http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/ourworldneeds.htm] Dead link|date=March 2008] Although on the political right, Worsthorne regularly contributes book reviews to the " In the Athenaeum Club speech cited above (published as "Liberalism failed to set us free. Indeed, it enslaved us") he noted that the emergence of He writes a regular opinion column called "Kind of Blue" for the online Private life Peregrine Worsthorne married Claudie Bertrande Baynham (née Colame) in 1950, with whom he had a daughter (Dominique) and stepson. Claudie died in 1990. In 1991 he received a knighthood and married the architectural writer Trivia He is the subject of the song "The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne" by McCarthy. Notes References *Andy Beckett (2002) "Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's Hidden History ", Faber Bibliography *Mary Wilson (et al) (1977) "The Queen", Penguin [contributor] Источник: Peregrine Worsthorne
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*Roy Greenslade (2003 [2004] ) "Press Gang: How Newspapers Male Profits from Propaganda", Pan
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*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)
*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
*Peregrine Worsthorne (1978) "Too Much Freedom", in
*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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