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

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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

Getting and spending

  • 27 November 2008
  • 1 comment

The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World Niall Ferguson Allen Lane, 397pp, £25

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?

As the champagne corks pop . . .

  • 23 October 2008
  • 6 comments

Yachtgate leaves voters with the uncomfortable feeling that the super-rich own our politicians.

Religion and science do mix

  • 18 September 2008
  • 132 comments

Schools need to rethink the curriculum

The myth of the super-rich

  • 11 September 2008
  • 8 comments

Most of our tycoons are not wealth creators, but wealth drainers

Inequality kills

  • 04 September 2008
  • 5 comments

Politicians take heed: social injustice is, literally, deadly

Why capitalism creates a throwaway society

  • 28 August 2008
  • 6 comments

How to deal with waste is the great policy failure of our age

The myth of private sector efficiency

  • 21 August 2008
  • 1 comment

When it comes to health and social care, in-house staff still do it better

Nice deal for the drug companies

  • 14 August 2008
  • 2 comments

The NHS should exert its purchasing power

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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