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
Degrees, the Beeb and Blair
- 26 August 2010
- 11 comments
University at 18 is overrated; make Salford the capital of England, and then the BBC might go north happily; and Tony’s latest marketing strategy.
UK Politics
Star pupils and self-service specialists
- 19 August 2010
- 4 comments
A* at A-level will help universities pick candidates from fee-charging schools while self-service supermarket tills destroy jobs.
Why Martin O’Neill is no genius
- 13 August 2010
- 12 comments
The ex-Aston Villa boss should have done better.
UK Politics
Milk, the Mail and Martin O’Neill
- 12 August 2010
- 5 comments
Why the Tories should abolish school milk and throw people out of council housing – oh, and why they’re spendthrifts. Plus: football fortunes and thinking again about global warming.
Society
The English feudal system -- 2010 version
- 04 August 2010
- 3 comments
Peter Wilby on banking tyranny, the importance of old media, Hugh Trevor-Roper v Rupert Murdoch, middle-class school “tourists” and milk from cloned cows.
Society
“Big society” or big bonanza?
- 22 July 2010
- 1 comment
Peter Wilby on private enterprise, political phraseology, the media elite, who will save our savings and liquid visions.
UK Politics
Summertime . . . and the reading is heavy
- 08 July 2010
How to keep people out of prison despite the Tory cuts, conspiracy theories about David Kelly’s death, incompetent teachers, strikes and holiday reading.
Politics
Why I’m glad Germany defeated England
- 02 July 2010
- 14 comments
This was a victory for the social market over Anglo-Saxon capitalism.
Society
Death, taxes and football
- 01 July 2010
- 4 comments
Dodgy deficits, fickle focus groups, royal abuses, class rules and more football truths.
