The summer that remade Britain
Snapshots from 1962 – a year of irrevocable change.
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Peter Wilby
Peter Wilby was editor of the New Statesman from 1998 to 2005.
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First Thoughts: The risk of ad boycotts, challenging the woke world-view, and cancelling Enid Blyton
Advertisers should not be encouraged to judge a media outlet’s “values”, if that idea takes hold the left stands to lose…
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First Thoughts: Holiday hubris, Frost’s history lesson, and how to play sport in multicultural Britain
Why can't Britons stay at home this summer instead of fretting over which countries are categorised green, amber or red?
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First Thoughts: The culture wars reach the National Trust, Dacre and Ofcom, and lockdown longings
The Ofcom interview panel declared the former Daily Mail editor "not appointable", but that won't stop Boris Johnson.
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First Thoughts: Guardian airbrushing, lobotomised TV, and saving our subtitles
As the Guardian celebrates 200 years in print, the historic moments the newspaper chose to highlight are a lesson…
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First Thoughts: Shirley Williams, the SDP’s lost leader, and what the Duke of Edinburgh knew
As a politician, Shirley Williams was a trailblazer, engaging and popular with the public; if only her SDP co-founders, and…
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Public schools and the public
Why Eton, Harrow, Rugby and the rest thrived.
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First Thoughts: Cressida Dick’s “difficult calls”, Piers Morgan the martyr, and the cost of a non-curtsey
I hold no brief for Piers Morgan. But I disagree with his dismissal from ITV’s Good Morning Britain for three reasons.
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Meghan’s tabloid treatment, a history of abdications, and why the Queen is to blame
Her Majesty's 69-year-reign is commonly regarded as her greatest strength, but it may in fact be the biggest problem. …
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