Michael Bernard Wharton (born Michael Bernard Nathan) (April 19, 1913 - January 23, 2006) was a newspaper columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British "Daily Telegraph". He began work on the "Way of the World" column with the illustrator Michael ffolkes (sic) three times a week at the beginning of 1957. In 1990 he began a weekly "Peter Simple" column in the "Sunday Telegraph", … Wikipedia
Wharton leaves no imitators, but the success of Auberon Waugh's entirely fictitious diary owes something to Wharton, as does the television satire of Chris Morris, even if the debt is not conscious. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/24/...
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Wharton leaves no imitators, but the success of Auberon Waugh's entirely fictitious diary owes something to Wharton, as does the television satire of Chris Morris, even if the debt is not conscious. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/24/...