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Tired of Islam thrust in our faces
- Peter Wilby
- 16 October 2006
The trouble with being a Muslim is you're not allowed an off day. You can't, if you're a cab driver, say, "Sorry, guv, not going that way, the missus expects me home for prayers"
Magnificent on Iraq, but no longer a player
- Peter Wilby
- 09 October 2006
At heart a bland creature, the Independent presents on its front page the alarming exterior of a rabid dog. Still, we should be thankful that it exists at all, and should celebrate its 20th birthday
Sooner or later, you pay for it
- Peter Wilby
- 02 October 2006
The trick the music industry has pulled off is to make teenagers crave the smell and feel of vinyl. Newspapers need to do something similar
The Age of Delicate Feelings
- Peter Wilby
- 25 September 2006
In my time as editor it was one damned offence after another: Muslims, Catholics, Jews, Blairites, Castroites, the US embassy, all demanded apologies
It's about pershonalities, stupid
- Peter Wilby
- 18 September 2006
Newspapers understand perfectly well that politics gets interesting only when you keep ishoos out of it
Profiling the prejudices of the press
- Peter Wilby
- 11 September 2006
Molly Campbell's disappearance would have occasioned little comment if she had been the brown child of two brown parents and living in Bradford or Tower Hamlets
Towards the end of the evening
- Peter Wilby
- 04 September 2006
Sometimes local papers carried what, to me, was the first news of events such as the launch of Sputnik
Writers get caught out by a real story
- Peter Wilby
- 28 August 2006
Given the failings of sports journalism, I wonder if we shall ever know the full details of the Oval débâcle
A show of damp knickers in public
- Peter Wilby
- 21 August 2006
As suspects in the alleged airline terror plot are detained, the holidaying Tony Blair comes under scrutiny - for his wet smalls
The libel law is an ass
- Peter Wilby
- 14 August 2006
Damages don't hurt press barons. For our system to provide proportionate redress, these cases must be taken out of the courts
