Robert Peston: ‘I’m not a conventional broadcaster – people hate my style’
The journalist, 63, on his weird brain, trying to fix everyone else’s problems and how interviewing prime ministers has changed over time
September 2023
Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
The week in audio: Finn and the Bell; Animal; The Rest Is Money – review
An account of the tragic death of a young Vermont man is unforgettable; Radio 4 tells relatable tales of the animal kingdom; and Robert Peston and Steph McGovern launch a spoiler
May 2023
Chamber of horrors: the best and worst Westminster insider novels
Whips by Cleo Watson is nothing new – politicos have forever tried their hand at fiction. We take a referendum on the good, the bad and the scandalous
July 2022
Books interview
Robert Peston: ‘I wore my favourite Gaultier coat to a party conference and somebody nicked it’
ITV’s political editor on coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, belatedly publishing his first novel, and why he longs for a lost England
December 2021
From Bill Clinton to Robert Peston: celebrity crime fiction on trial
After you’ve written your memoir, publishers these days want anyone famous to write crime novels. We put 10 of the most well-known in the dock
September 2021
Crime and thrillers roundup
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
The best recent thrillers – review roundup
April 2020
How TV news hosts get camera-ready in lockdown
Broadcasters are falling back on their own skills to stay well-groomed. Unless, of course, it’s Robert Peston
January 2020
'This was racism': Soweto Kinch tells of being refused entry to first-class on train
Musician was on TV show discussing race in UK and treatment of Duchess of Sussex
October 2018
Robert Peston: BBC not impartial during EU referendum campaign
ITV political editor says journalists must show which of two contradictory arguments is most likely to be true
June 2018
The Q&A
Robert Peston: ‘Most embarrassing moment? My first year broadcasting at the BBC’
Robert Peston moves to midweek ITV slot after poor viewing figures
February 2018
Ofcom investigating Miriam Margolyes' swearing on live ITV show
Actor forced Robert Peston to apologise for language she used on Sunday morning show
November 2017
Middle class can give up a little or the mob will arrive with pitchforks
Saturday interview
Robert Peston: 'I’m not saying Britain is finished, but our current problems are not a blip'
June 2017
Peston on Sunday gives Leadsom's call for patriotism a droll reply
Broadcasting’s big guns get ready for election night battle
May 2017
The politics sketch
Dim and Dimmer: two Tory car crashes for the price of one
John Crace
If Damian Green had hoped to provide gravitas on Marr Show, Boris Johnson’s Peston tactic was to go for full-on levitas
Boris Johnson mistakenly says £350m NHS promise is in Tory manifesto – video
Foreign secretary Boris Johnson suggests Theresa May promised to give the NHS an extra £350m a week in the Conservative party manifesto, when neither she nor the document made any such promise
The politics sketch
Very few voters to spoil Theresa May's day as she chills on Facebook Live
John Crace
With 14,500 viewers tuning in over 45 minutes, the event would have registered as an audience of zero if it had been on TV
