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
The media column - Peter Wilby on why ministers are touchy
- 01 May 2006
Ministers profess indifference to the views of the chattering classes. But it can't be pleasant if, every time you go out, people accuse you of destroying democracy
Books
The British Gandhi
- 01 May 2006
The Troublemaker: Michael Scott and his lonely struggle against injustice Anne Yates and Lewis Chester Aurum Press, 338pp, £16.99 ISBN 1845130804
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby
- 24 April 2006
The Times particularly favours writers who claim to be left-wing but hold no discernible left-wing views. This allows Rupert Murdoch to have his cake and eat it
The medium column - Peter Wilby
- 17 April 2006
The press once dedicated enormous space to the aristocracy. Now we have a different elite, covering the worlds of press, TV, public relations, publishing and politics
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby on the Mail's new best friend
- 10 April 2006
Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail editor, has long had a soft spot for Brown. He suspects Blair cares more for gay rights than hard-working families
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby is cornered by the finger-waggers
- 03 April 2006
It has probably always existed: Anglo-Saxons were no doubt cornered in taverns by red-faced men asking: "Do you condemn William the Conqueror?"
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby finds too many papers lacking teeth
- 27 March 2006
Splits used to be thought bad for political parties, but new Labour has managed to turn this rule on its head. All stories now become part of the Blair-Brown drama
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby rejoices at death
- 20 March 2006
The right has had 30 years in the sun but that time is over and it knows it. I see here a connection with the disarray at the Telegraph papers
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby bids farewell to Sarah Sands
- 13 March 2006
Specialists have been largely usurped by "star" columnists and professional "why, oh why" hacks who purport to know about everything from bird flu to life in Fallujah
Politics
The Tories' Young Men
- 13 March 2006
Article from the New Society archive, 13 October 1977 by Peter Wilby, selected by Brian Cathcart
