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

Results 211 to 220 of 263

The media column - Peter Wilby snorts with disbelief

  • 24 October 2005

Cameron and Osborne give the impression they run some sort of charity, rescuing upper-class waifs and strays from ruination. What Tory party members make of it all is anyone's guess

The media column - Peter Wilby is immune to bird flu

  • 17 October 2005

After emerging from the Orient, bird flu was getting ever closer. By the time it reached Britain we would all be goners. New Labour was predictably "unprepared"

The media column - Peter Wilby thinks Blunkett gets the press he deserves

  • 10 October 2005

Blunkett's love life is fair media game, and if he wants privacy he must return again to the back benches. He probably won't, because ministerial office gives him pulling power

The luck of the draw

  • 10 October 2005

Observations on school choice

The media column - Peter Wilby prefers a proper scoop

  • 03 October 2005

The media awards industry prefers one-day wonders, often of significance only to Westminster cognoscenti, and trivial domestic scandals

The media column - Peter Wilby mixes drink and drugs

  • 26 September 2005

One was a "coke snorting" cow, the other a loveable "Ashes hero" who had celebrated England's cricket triumph in style, with champagne, lager and so on

The media column - Peter Wilby isn't quite a Berliner

  • 19 September 2005

The future of British journalism may depend on whether times2 or the Berliner Guardian proves more successful

Priests of chaos

  • 19 September 2005

Carnage and the Media: the making and breaking of news about violence Jean Seaton Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 360pp, £19.99 ISBN 0713997060

The media column - Peter Wilby takes pity on Bush

  • 12 September 2005

I feel the teeniest, weeniest smidgen of sympathy for Bush. If he was slow to grasp the scale of the hurricane disaster, so were sections of the press

The media column - Peter Wilby

  • 05 September 2005

To judge from my e-mails, a fair number of people believe I have been "fomenting, justifying or glorifying terrorism"

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President Cheney?

Get ready for President Cheney

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