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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The price of failure

  • 19 June 2008
  • 1 comment

Labelling schools undermines customer confidence

Suffer the poor children

  • 12 June 2008
  • 3 comments

Child poverty rises as the underclass falls behind

Bright ideas will damage Labour's health

  • 05 June 2008
  • 4 comments

Threatening GPs is bad politics

For the good of others

  • 29 May 2008
  • 1 comment

The public sector ethos may be on its last legs.

Fewer weddings? Blame the Tories

  • 22 May 2008
  • 4 comments

Who killed marriage? Not the left

Behave yourself

  • 15 May 2008
  • 4 comments

The state now regulates us instead of the economy

Humanity's last rage

  • 08 May 2008
  • 5 comments

Was it a great beginning . . . or just the final great street festival before the darkness closed in? Peter Wilby wonders whether the year changed everything - or nothing at all

The balancing act of tax reform

  • 01 May 2008
  • 2 comments

Winners keep quiet, losers raise hell

Everybody out!

  • 24 April 2008
  • 18 comments

The workers are getting restless. Last year, for the second time in five years, more than a million days were lost to strikes. This year the figure is likely to be higher. Is this a return to the militant Seventies? Plus check out the rest of our May Day special

The not-so-good-any-more life

  • 17 April 2008

In the US, as here, inequality is a middle-class issue.

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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