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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.

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Global Issues
A long, hack summer on Fleet Street
31 July 2006

The hot weather brought the anti-global-warming pundits out of the jungle and into the open with fix

UK Politics
It was the Beeb wot won it
24 July 2006

Faced with what could be the biggest story in British political history, the papers were forced to r

Education
Learning takes a lifetime
24 July 2006

The older we get, the more we realise what we need to know

Society
The internet or something . . .
17 July 2006

Bloggers didn't drive the Prescott story. They may have stirred it up a bit, but newspaper journalis

Society
Look out, there's no reporter about
10 July 2006

The papers demand "more police on the street". What about getting a few more journalists out there a

Sport
Wags beget Wams beget Warbles
03 July 2006

The trouble with football is that the game lasts only 90 minutes and most of the time not much happe

Ideas
Who's the twerp and who writes twaddle?
26 June 2006

How rapidly the press marginalises subjects such as the brutality of British colonialism and puts th

Society
Titanic goes down: everyone safe
19 June 2006

Peter Wilby is strangely reassured by howlers from Fleet Street's "golden age"

Sport
The cross we have to bear
19 June 2006

The Independent put the question we all needed the answer to: can a middle-class liberal fl

Society
Choose your poison
12 June 2006

The Forest Gate raid may or may not show flaws in police and intelligence practice, but it certainly

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