Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Oakeshott passed away on this day in 1990, a year and one month after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Three decades later, ...

Matt Hancock is not the first politician to have reason to question having placed his trust in Isabel Oakeshott, the journalist at the centre of the Covid Whatsapp leak. The reporter turned writer has ...

At face value Isabel Oakeshott’s actions would seem to confirm the popular misconception that journalists cannot be trusted. She was given access to former Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp ...

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An unassuming figure little known in life but hailed after his death as “perhaps the most original political philosopher of this century”. By Jesse Norman This modest man: Oakeshott, pictured at ...

As a student, I felt at a disadvantage when facing radicals because they had a universal theory of what made societies tick. Indeed, the dominant Marxist version—about capitalism and its ...

Isabel Oakeshott has accused politicians of "laughing and joking about locking us up" during the pandemic. The journalist, who leaked 100,000 WhatsApp messages between Government ministers to the ...

Oakeshott’s poor track record of protecting sources is well-documented. In 2011, Vicky Pryce — ex-wife of former Lib Dem cabinet minister Chris Huhne — famously told Oakeshott, then political editor ...