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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Media
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
Media
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
Media
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"
Media
Magnificent on Iraq, but no longer a player
- 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
Media
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
Media
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
Media
It's about pershonalities, stupid
- 18 September 2006
Newspapers understand perfectly well that politics gets interesting only when you keep ishoos out of it
Politics
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
Media
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
Media
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
