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  • "Bad Ronald" (unintentional): Tagline: "The Wilby place is haunted ... by a ghost who isn't dead!"

    Friday List: Hilarious horror movies Jen Chaney 2010

  • Peter Wilby well expresses the arguments for why the "war on drugs" has not only failed but actually makes the problems created by drug use worse Many agree, none act: to ease untold misery, legalise drugs, 2 June.

    Letters: Getting high is a basic human right 2011

  • Report cardPeter Wilby interviews a former chair of Ofsted with what he calls the "raunchy air" of a television barmaid, and finds out what made the bubbly Zenna Atkins take a top job with a private education company.

    Crib Sheet 26.10.10 Judy Friedberg 2010

  • At New Statesman Peter Wilby says that “the Gurkhas are mercenaries” and:

    Global Voices in English » The Gurkhas: Long History Of Discrimination 2009

  • Peter Wilby well expresses the arguments for why the "war on drugs" has not only failed but actually makes the problems created by drug use worse Many agree, none act: to ease untold misery, legalise drugs, 2 June.

    Letters: Getting high is a basic human right 2011

  • "To operate effectively, journalism needs to have fluid and negotiable boundaries for what you can and cannot do," said Peter Wilby, a former editor of the New Statesman magazine.

    Tough U.K. Press Rules Seen Guy Chazan 2011

  • Maurice, the film of EM Forster's tale of blighted love, starred a 27-year-old Hugh Grant opposite James Wilby as Edwardian schoolfriends who fall in love while at Cambridge.

    Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, the screen's leading Englishmen at 50 Vanessa Thorpe 2010

  • But in particular I like Samuel West as Leonard Bast in his ill-fitting bowler and the infinitely watchable James Wilby who, with his eye-rolling, pipe-smoking characterisation of Charles Wilcox manages to overtly steal every single scene he's in, from even the august Mr. Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

    Sunday's End Peter Ashley 2007

  • But in particular I like Samuel West as Leonard Bast in his ill-fitting bowler and the infinitely watchable James Wilby who, with his eye-rolling, pipe-smoking characterisation of Charles Wilcox manages to overtly steal every single scene he's in, from even the august Mr. Hopkins and Emma Thompson.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Peter Ashley 2007

  • Revealing in the article in the Media Guardian today by lefty tart Peter Wilby.

    Archive 2007-09-23 Newmania 2007

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