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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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Getting and spending

  • 27 November 2008

The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
Allen Lane, 397pp, £25

The last best hope

  • 13 November 2008
  • 3 comments

Can a United States led by Barack Obama really change its attitudes towards the rest of the world?

As the champagne corks pop . . .

  • 23 October 2008
  • 6 comments

Yachtgate leaves voters with the uncomfortable feeling that
the super-rich own our politicians.

Religion and science do mix

  • 18 September 2008
  • 132 comments

Schools need to rethink the curriculum

The myth of the super-rich

  • 11 September 2008
  • 8 comments

Most of our tycoons are not wealth creators, but wealth drainers

Inequality kills

  • 04 September 2008
  • 5 comments

Politicians take heed: social injustice is, literally, deadly

Why capitalism creates a throwaway society

  • 28 August 2008
  • 6 comments

How to deal with waste is the great policy failure of our age

The myth of private sector efficiency

  • 21 August 2008
  • 1 comment

When it comes to health and social care, in-house staff still do it better

Nice deal for the drug companies

  • 14 August 2008
  • 2 comments

The NHS should exert its purchasing power

In a league of their own

  • 07 August 2008
  • 1 comment

The testing regime in schools does pupils no good

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