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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Politics
Where did it all go wrong?
- 06 March 2006
Education - The Education Bill has turned into a definitive confrontation between Tony Blair and his party. The argument goes to the heart of new Labour's idea of the role that education should play in the nation's life - a very different idea, explains Peter Wilby, from what drove the pioneers of comprehensive schools
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby gets down and dirty with Sarah Sands
- 27 February 2006
Would editors still publish those pictures of abuse from Iraq if they risked imprisonment and the closure of their newspapers?
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby smells a bad egg
- 20 February 2006
The one-sided coverage since Sion Jenkins was acquitted illustrates the dangers of trial by newspaper. Evidence of previous "bad character" is not proof of guilt in a criminal case
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby reveals a yellow streak
- 13 February 2006
I would not reprint the Danish cartoons to show solidarity: that would show solidarity with an apparently offensive intent as well as with freedom of expression
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby finds the Telegraph white-faced
- 06 February 2006
How many non-white faces were among the picture bylines that, in the Telegraph as in all papers, have spread like ground elder? Er, zero, and I looked through all 12 sections. Peter Wilby
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby revisits Wapping
- 30 January 2006
But who to blame? The idea that the whale had got itself in a tangle - that it was a sort of John Prescott of the whale community - didn't seem to occur to anybody
Media
On the margins
- 30 January 2006
Guardians of Power: the myth of the liberal media David Edwards and David Cromwell Pluto Press, 241pp, £14.99 ISBN 0745324827
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby counts pervs
- 23 January 2006
The press can just about tolerate successful and clever women, and quite likes earth mothers, but it feels that trying to be both is against nature
Media
The media column - Peter Wilby savours the columnist's discomfort
- 16 January 2006
The Tory leader writers sounded as if they had discovered mouse droppings in a relative's kitchen, but didn't want to mention it
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The media review of the year - Peter Wilby
- 19 December 2005
Throwing any old rubbish at readers in the hope they never notice won't work any more. For that reason, press commentators will be even more essential
