Michael Wharton
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Michael Wharton (born 1913) is a newspaper columnist writing under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British Daily Telegraph since 1955, when he started writing the Way of the World column three times a week, plus a separate weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph. Since 1990 his column has appeared only once a week, although the style has never changed.
The column pokes fun at what it sees as modern, fashionable ideas. In the column, Dr Spacely-Trellis is the fictional bishop of Stretchford, a fictional conurbation locationed somewhere in the Midlands region of the United Kingdom. The name "Stretchford" possibly originated from Stetchford, the area of Birmingham once represented in Parliament by Roy Jenkins, a major exponent of the political ideas that Wharton despises.