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of making indecent images of children. For this he was given a 10-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, a 10-year sexual harm prevention order and was placed on the sex offenders register for five years. He admitted to having a sexual interest in children and to having viewed indecent images
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Dean Nelson, a journalist who worked for newspapers employing Wilby, asserts that Wilby used his journalism to denigrate child sexual abuse victims, and his senior editorial positions to suppress proposed articles on child sexual abuse.
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under Wilby had a reputation in the "political trade" for "being either dull, or silly". With Wilby as editor, it had become "ever more critical of the Government, notably with the anti-American line he took after September 11". A
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in July 2002. He described the term as being "an invention of the marketing people close to the Labour leader". A scoop Wilby was fond of at the time concerned an interview with the physician, professor and Labour peer
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In February 2002, Wilby apologised and took personal responsibility for running the cover of the 14 January 2002 issue. It featured the headline "A Kosher Conspiracy", promoting articles by Dennis Sewell and
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While circulation was much the same when Wilby assumed the role as when he relinquished it in 2005, he wrote in an article for the
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that he had managed to turn "a substantial financial loss into a healthy operating profit".
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Wilby himself was dismissed from the post of editor in 2005 by then-owner
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that she believed Wilby was pushed out of his post in preparation for
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becoming prime minister. Wilby was the longest serving editor of the
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The Left's Jewish Problem: Jeremy Corbyn, Israel and Anti-Semitism
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Wilby continued to write a weekly "First Thoughts" column for the
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English people convicted of child pornography offences
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in 1990 and eventually became its editor (1995–96).
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Archived from 330:"Inside story: Introducing the Press Gang" 230:, who had retired from the post in 1960. 500: 498: 540:"Is the bell tolling for the weeklies?" 301: 188:, then Professor of Russian History at 578:from the original on 11 December 2022 7: 788:"Swimming (weakly) against the tide" 377:Hodgson, Jessica (7 February 2002). 312:McMenemy, Rachael (18 August 2023). 109:respectively concerning the alleged 600:Cathcart, Brian (7 November 2004). 757:Wilby, Peter (12 September 2005). 671:"New Left is up to its old tricks" 327:Miller, Compton (28 August 2006). 14: 1365:The Independent on Sunday editors 866:Nelson, Dean (2 September 2023). 636:"Plots, paranoia and politics at 465:Lister, David (7 February 2002). 441:. 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The Independent on Sunday
New Statesman
Kibworth Beauchamp grammar school
Sussex University
The Observer
New Statesman
The Sunday Times
The Independent on Sunday
New Statesman
John Pilger
Zionist lobby in Britain
Tony Blair
Michael Levy
David Triesman
Labour Party
antisemitic
New Labour
The Independent
Robert Winston
National Health Service
health provision in Poland
Julia Langdon
British Journalism Review
Robert Service
Oxford University
Tony Blair
Joseph Stalin
Cristina Odone
Geoffrey Robinson
Gordon Brown

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