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The media column - Peter Wilby wonders why some writers are treated like rabid dogs

  • 31 October 2005

If writers who are anywhere to the left of Tony Blair get into the mainstream papers at all, they are treated like rabid dogs and given labels like "an alternative voice"

The media column - Peter Wilby snorts with disbelief

  • 24 October 2005

Cameron and Osborne give the impression they run some sort of charity, rescuing upper-class waifs and strays from ruination. What Tory party members make of it all is anyone's guess

The media column - Peter Wilby is immune to bird flu

  • 17 October 2005

After emerging from the Orient, bird flu was getting ever closer. By the time it reached Britain we would all be goners. New Labour was predictably "unprepared"

The media column - Peter Wilby thinks Blunkett gets the press he deserves

  • 10 October 2005

Blunkett's love life is fair media game, and if he wants privacy he must return again to the back benches. He probably won't, because ministerial office gives him pulling power

The media column - Peter Wilby prefers a proper scoop

  • 03 October 2005

The media awards industry prefers one-day wonders, often of significance only to Westminster cognoscenti, and trivial domestic scandals

The media column - Peter Wilby mixes drink and drugs

  • 26 September 2005

One was a "coke snorting" cow, the other a loveable "Ashes hero" who had celebrated England's cricket triumph in style, with champagne, lager and so on

The media column - Peter Wilby isn't quite a Berliner

  • 19 September 2005

The future of British journalism may depend on whether times2 or the Berliner Guardian proves more successful

The media column - Peter Wilby takes pity on Bush

  • 12 September 2005

I feel the teeniest, weeniest smidgen of sympathy for Bush. If he was slow to grasp the scale of the hurricane disaster, so were sections of the press

The media column - Peter Wilby

  • 05 September 2005

To judge from my e-mails, a fair number of people believe I have been "fomenting, justifying or glorifying terrorism"

The media column - Peter Wilby gives a science lesson

  • 29 August 2005

My advice to journalists is the same as that given to Woodward and Bernstein at the start of the Watergate investigation: follow the money

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The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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