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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Society
How politics became the preserve of the wealthy
- 02 April 2007
- 1 comment
Two decades on, we can see the poll tax protests as the last great popular uprising - the last occasion when Britain's dispossessed spoke with political force
Environment
Carbon rationing: a modern morality tale
- 26 March 2007
- 3 comments
Controlling climate change will require personal sacrifice, fairness and trust. Yet successive governments have insisted on the individual's right to choose. This large bird is coming home to roost
Politics
A small step towards equality
- 19 March 2007
There's one way for Gordon Brown to keep those pesky Labour and union lefties onside, and it's called asset-based welfare
Benefits and headaches
- 12 March 2007
The best solution to the infernal complexities of the benefits system, as any good socialist knows, is to make work more attractive to claimants
Education
What you call a school is academic
- 05 March 2007
- 3 comments
City academies are remarkably similar to the city technology colleges the Tories launched in the 1980s. I have never understood their point
UK Politics
Persuasion is a science
- 26 February 2007
There's a proven formula for getting people to do what you want them to do - and politicians would be well advised to learn it
Society
A corrupt system that affects us all
- 19 February 2007
- 12 comments
I am not suggesting your council will accept a bribe to nod through your rear extension...
UK Politics
Capitalism's dirty business
- 12 February 2007
We need to know about private equity: it sacks staff, cuts wages, sells off assets, outsources, screws suppliers and, more often than not, reduces services to customers
Society
Why skills don't matter any more
- 05 February 2007
- 1 comment
British companies look not for people who are proficient at specific jobs but for those who have "potential" to cope with change. Is it any wonder nothing works properly?
Media
Facing the fate of builders and decorators
- 18 December 2006
- 1 comment
The unskilled middle classes losing their monopoly
