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Article: Media: Left field He's redesigned it and made it more eclectic, but has recently been out-scooped by his right-wing rival. Peter Wilby, editor of the New Statesman, tells DAVID LISTER he's too deaf to listen to New Labour spin and doesn't give a hoot about The Spectator
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2002
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Peter Wilby is one of the very few editors in Britain who is also
a socialist. He betrays his political leanings in his use of the
shift key, admitting with pride to being the only editor who, to his
knowledge, never caps up the "N" in New Labour. "I always use a lower
case `n'," he says with his usual mixture of magisterial pedantry and
gruff bonhomie. "I don't accept that there's such a thing as New
Labour. My Labour Party membership card does not say New Labour. I
did not see New Labour on the ballot paper when I voted in the last
election. It is an invention of the marketing people close to the
Labour leader."
Perhaps Wilby discusses this from time to time with Geoffrey
Robinson, the ...