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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Books
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
Books
The trouble with Oxford
- 12 February 2009
- 1 comment
Maurice Bowra: a Life
Leslie Mitchell
Oxford University Press, 400pp, £25
Economy
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
Books
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
Books
Getting and spending
- 27 November 2008
- 1 comment
The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
Allen Lane, 397pp, £25
Books
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?
UK Politics
As the champagne corks pop . . .
- 23 October 2008
- 6 comments
Yachtgate leaves voters with the uncomfortable feeling that
the super-rich own our politicians.
Society
Religion and science do mix
- 18 September 2008
- 132 comments
Schools need to rethink the curriculum
Society
The myth of the super-rich
- 11 September 2008
- 8 comments
Most of our tycoons are not wealth creators, but wealth drainers
