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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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Sooner or later, you pay for it

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Bring on the camels

  • 11 September 2006

Most unions use the strike weapon sparingly, as the press always demanded. Their reward is to be ignored. Peter Wilby wonders what they have to do these days to get noticed

Towards the end of the evening

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

A matter of context

  • 07 August 2006

I'm going to stick my neck out and say that, since it began bombing Lebanon, Israel, which usually gets a good press, has had a bad press

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