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My reactions to 9/11 were, from the start, different from everyone else's. As we watched on the office television, somebody said with horror, "I can'… - Peter Wilby
" "My reactions to 9/11 were, from the start, different from everyone else's. As we watched on the office television, somebody said with horror, "I can't believe this is happening in Manhattan!" To which, I thought, why not? Many countries had, at some point in the previous 90 years, experienced the effects of aerial bombardment, sometimes from American forces. Why should we regard Americans as uniquely immune from such barbarity? The US, after all, had become the world's sole great power and it revelled in this status.
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About Peter Wilby
Peter John Wilby (born 7 November 1944) is a British journalist. He is a former editor of The Independent on Sunday (April 1995–October 1996) and the New Statesman (1998–2005). Wilby joined The Observer as a reporter in 1968. He was appointed as the newspaper's education correspondent around 1972, and subsequently worked in this field for the New Statesman (1975–77) and The Sunday Times (1977–1986). In August 2023, Wilby was convicted of making indecent images of children, some in the most serious category, and sentenced to 10 months imprisonment suspended for two years.
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[Nick] Cohen assures me that he has no intention of following [Paul] Johnson's long political journey. Since he is a personal friend, whose journalism I admire (I hired him twice, once on the Independent on Sunday, once on the NS), I believe him. But I don't underestimate the sense of betrayal on the left. When the rest of the press was cheering on [Tony] Blair, particularly in new Labour's early days, Cohen was his most virulent critic and almost the only coherent voice asserting "real left" values. Now, in some eyes, he has deserted the cause when it needs him most.
[W]hat shocked me was the creeping realisation that he had used his position as an editor and columnist to create what the writer Beatrix Campbell has called a "hostile environment" for victims of abuse.
It dawned on me that he had applied that "hostile environment" to me at the outset of my career when I was a freelance reporter at the Independent on Sunday, and he was its news editor.
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His vision of the Statesman was as a totally independent, and therefore fearless, mischief-maker. Sometimes this worked - the magazine's anti-Iraq war campaign was prescient and much copied; sometimes it did not - New Statesman covers could take on the wrong taboos, viz its Zionist conspiracy or its Blair as Stalin covers, or more recently the issue marking John Paul II's death, in which the late Pope's impact on Africa's Aids epidemic was compared with that of prostitutes and truck drivers.
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