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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Facing the fate of builders and decorators

  • 18 December 2006
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The unskilled middle classes losing their monopoly

Dave's in deep trouble

  • 11 December 2006

Blair managed to attract a stampede of commentators previously hostile to Labour. Can Cameron do the same?

Would Polly look good naked on a horse?

  • 04 December 2006

She bangs on about topics nobody else understands. She is perversely enthused by new Labour. But almost alone among writers, Toynbee knows how policies affect the masses

Slippery sentences

  • 27 November 2006
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I have always admired how the Westminster press lobby can take just a few words and interpret them with complete confidence

Fleet Street's maiden aunts

  • 20 November 2006

Newspapers have never been good at picking up and responding positively to major social shifts

It was us wot won it

  • 13 November 2006
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On Iraq and global warming, the left has been vindicated. Our foes still cannot produce apologies, and instead treat us to some intriguing self-justification

The BBC should hold its nerve

  • 06 November 2006

BBC bigwigs have held a day-long conference to examine their own impartiality. This was probably a mistake

Mills and McCartney . . . must I take sides?

  • 30 October 2006

The posh papers are never very helpful on these occasions, offering a mixture of world-weary cynicism and high-minded lamentation

The general puts the press in a spin

  • 23 October 2006

How would Max Hastings, press cheerleader for all things military, cope with Sir Richard? No problem. He yomped on regardless, bravely pocketing another cheque under heavy gunfire

Tired of Islam thrust in our faces

  • 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"

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

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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