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

Results 1 to 10 of 263

Childhood, BA strikes and biscuits

  • 18 March 2010

The islands of black gold

  • 15 March 2010

Nobody dreamed in the 1970s that a few years later Britain would be waging war over the Falklands. Now, as UK companies drill for oil and Argentina mobilises support, are we moving towards another, deeper conflict?

Why Falklands oil makes this an election worth losing (probably)

  • 05 March 2010
  • 9 comments

And why Sunny Jim's 1979 defeat was doubly painful.

Reasons to vote Tory. Or not.

  • 26 February 2010
  • 5 comments

Blair believed in what he was doing, but it is far from clear that Cameron does.

Tory traits and the Guardian’s woes

  • 26 February 2010

The Guardian model is no ideal

  • 25 February 2010
  • 1 comment

Guardian Media Group behaves no differently from a straightforward profit-making concern.

Gordon’s pig, Tory toadies and fat cats

  • 22 February 2010

Beware the Tories bearing red-tinted gifts.

Beware of Tory co-operatives

  • 18 February 2010
  • 9 comments

The proposals are a back-door device for more privatisation.

Why the Eurosceptics were right all along

  • 12 February 2010
  • 22 comments

The abstract principle of national sovereignty has been made very real by this crisis.

John Terry, tree-hugging and Blair

  • 11 February 2010

What exactly does a football captain do, and why is he important?

Andrew Stephen

President Cheney?

Get ready for President Cheney

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Tory foes

If Dave doesn’t win, it’s open season

James Macintyre

Lib Dem dilemma

The Lib Dem dilemma

Film review

Sons of Cuba

Sons of Cuba (PG)

Television

Fat Man in a White Hat

Fat Man in a White Hat

John Gray

Anarchism's failure

The World That Never Was: a True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents

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