Peter Wilby

Peter Wilby

Peter Wilby was editor of the Independent on Sunday from 1995 to 1996 and of the New Statesman from 1998 to 2005. He writes a weekly column for the NS.

Articles by Peter Wilby

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Vampire squids, Blair’s bête noire and the rot about yachts

  • 23 January 2012

Kelvin’s honest amorality, Mitt’s weird faith and Toby’s school rules

  • 16 January 2012
  • 1 comment

Peter Wilby offers a guide to interpreting the red tops, worries about Mitt Romney, is alarmed about free schools and advises you to water the babies.

Why isn’t our press more diverse?: Peter Wilby

  • 16 January 2012

Former editor, New Statesman

Scrounging foreigners invade Edinburgh? Where’s Paul Dacre?

  • 15 December 2011
  • 1 comment

Peter Wilby reflects on German financial logic, welcomes changes at the eleventh hour to the Extradition Act, cheers a rare lefty success, wonders why PRs won’t offer him a free lunch and pandas to the Daily Mail.

Press restraint on Gary Speed, a Lib Dem war and the blazer squad

  • 05 December 2011

What is the point of democracy?

  • 28 November 2011

Peter Wilby on the second man in the Basil D’Oliveira story, why capitalism still has legs, Tory plans for strikers, left-right cycles and the disingenuousness of Hugh Grant.

My euro prediction, Olympics travel and another cricketing suicide

  • 16 November 2011
  • 2 comments

The week with Peter Wilby

  • 10 November 2011
  • 1 comment

Desmond v Dacre redux, the clamour from Occupy LSX, questions of faith and university bingo.

Why stockbrokers love a crisis, Murdoch’s spies and a Mail apology

  • 09 November 2011

Tony’s mate Muammar, Marr the monarchist and my poetry triumph

  • 31 October 2011
  • 2 comments

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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