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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UK Politics
Arizona, arms and Aussie-style boozing
- 20 January 2011
- 1 comment
Why Jared Lee Loughner-style shootings would be inconceivable in the UK. Also, David Chaytor’s prison sentence, WMDs, proper pints and the royal stammerer.
UK Politics
Lessons to be learned from the Chris Jefferies case
- 06 January 2011
- 24 comments
The reporting of Joanna Yeates’s murder rode roughshod over legal convention.
Society
Crime reporting and other rubbish
- 06 January 2011
The Attorney General may warn newspapers to “reflect carefully”, but reports on the Joanna Yeates case have ignored legal convention. Also, the rise in VAT and a from healthy-food bribe the “big society”.
Society
Cameron’s captives and media myopia
- 29 December 2010
Are Britons suffering from Stockholm syndrome over the coalition government? Also, Cable’s woes, whingeing bishops, who owns our airports and the Ashes.
UK Politics
WikiLeaks and diplomats, Derby and the Daily Mail
- 09 December 2010
- 1 comment
Are ambassadors worth it? Should I become a consultant? And what use is the Mail?
Society
American bullies and leggy Russians
- 09 December 2010
- 15 comments
Washington clamps down on the leader of WikiLeaks, spy paranoia in London, to Oldham for a by-election, and Oz fights back.
