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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Who's the twerp and who writes twaddle?
- 26 June 2006
How rapidly the press marginalises subjects such as the brutality of British colonialism and puts them into a box marked "loony"
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The cross we have to bear
- 19 June 2006
The Independent put the question we all needed the answer to: can a middle-class liberal fly the flag?
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Titanic goes down: everyone safe
- 19 June 2006
Peter Wilby is strangely reassured by howlers from Fleet Street's "golden age"
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Choose your poison
- 12 June 2006
The Forest Gate raid may or may not show flaws in police and intelligence practice, but it certainly suggests flaws in journalism
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The media column - Peter Wilby wonders if the Mail might have a heart
- 05 June 2006
I would not accuse the British press, least of all the Mail, of having a heart. But it offers a version of the "ecology of images" that the late Susan Sontag demanded
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The media column - That McCartney marriage in full
- 29 May 2006
The McCartney-Mills marriage, like the fluoridation of water, is a subject on which I have never been able to form an opinion. Perhaps I am too incurious
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The media column - Bring on the regulator
- 22 May 2006
After many years as an editor, I have concluded that regulation of the press would be better than what we have
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The media column - Peter Wilby abolishes the north-west
- 15 May 2006
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The North West Enquirer might succeed if it had something to report on. Unfortunately the north-west, like the rest of regional England, doesn't exist
Sport
Ashes to ashes
- 15 May 2006
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2006 Edited by Matthew Engel John Wisden & Co, 1,600pp, £38 ISBN 0947766987
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The media column - Why politicians deserve it
- 08 May 2006
I welcome newspapers exposing the affairs of politicians. If they think we ought to know of their "happy" marriages why shouldn't we be told of their adulteries? Wonders Peter Wilby
