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The cross we have to bear

  • 19 June 2006

The Independent put the question we all needed the answer to: can a middle-class liberal fly the flag?

Titanic goes down: everyone safe

  • 19 June 2006

Peter Wilby is strangely reassured by howlers from Fleet Street's "golden age"

Choose your poison

  • 12 June 2006

The Forest Gate raid may or may not show flaws in police and intelligence practice, but it certainly suggests flaws in journalism

The media column - Peter Wilby wonders if the Mail might have a heart

  • 05 June 2006

I would not accuse the British press, least of all the Mail, of having a heart. But it offers a version of the "ecology of images" that the late Susan Sontag demanded

The media column - That McCartney marriage in full

  • 29 May 2006

The McCartney-Mills marriage, like the fluoridation of water, is a subject on which I have never been able to form an opinion. Perhaps I am too incurious

The media column - Bring on the regulator

  • 22 May 2006

After many years as an editor, I have concluded that regulation of the press would be better than what we have

The media column - Peter Wilby abolishes the north-west

  • 15 May 2006
  • 1 comment

The North West Enquirer might succeed if it had something to report on. Unfortunately the north-west, like the rest of regional England, doesn't exist

The media column - Why politicians deserve it

  • 08 May 2006

I welcome newspapers exposing the affairs of politicians. If they think we ought to know of their "happy" marriages why shouldn't we be told of their adulteries? Wonders Peter Wilby

The media column - Peter Wilby on why ministers are touchy

  • 01 May 2006

Ministers profess indifference to the views of the chattering classes. But it can't be pleasant if, every time you go out, people accuse you of destroying democracy

The media column - Peter Wilby

  • 24 April 2006

The Times particularly favours writers who claim to be left-wing but hold no discernible left-wing views. This allows Rupert Murdoch to have his cake and eat it

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