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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They want your sprogs

  • 19 February 2009

Consumer Kids: How Big Business Is Grooming Our Children for Profit Ed Mayo and Agnes Nairn Constable, 378pp, £8.99

The trouble with Oxford

  • 12 February 2009
  • 1 comment

Maurice Bowra: a Life Leslie Mitchell Oxford University Press, 400pp, £25

All of us live by the logic of finance

  • 05 February 2009
  • 82 comments

Margaret Thatcher promised wealth for all in her new society. First, though, we all had to become capitalists. Peter Wilby on our long road to ruin

Lunchtime notes

  • 11 December 2008

The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics - Off the Record Edited by Ion Trewin Allen Lane, 834pp, £30

Getting and spending

  • 27 November 2008
  • 1 comment

The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, 397pp, £25

The last best hope

  • 13 November 2008
  • 3 comments

Can a United States led by Barack Obama really change its attitudes towards the rest of the world?

As the champagne corks pop . . .

  • 23 October 2008
  • 6 comments

Yachtgate leaves voters with the uncomfortable feeling that the super-rich own our politicians.

Religion and science do mix

  • 18 September 2008
  • 136 comments

Schools need to rethink the curriculum

The myth of the super-rich

  • 11 September 2008
  • 8 comments

Most of our tycoons are not wealth creators, but wealth drainers

Inequality kills

  • 04 September 2008
  • 5 comments

Politicians take heed: social injustice is, literally, deadly

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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