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4 unusual facts about New Statesman


Elisabeth Castonier

In London she was also a correspondent for the News Chronicle and the New Statesman and also for emigrant newspapers like the Pariser Tageszeitung and the Wiener Tageblatt.

Spain and the World

In Britain, the Freedom Paper had begun to peter-out and the fortnightly publication, Spain and the World had been started by Dr Galasso and Vernon Richards to compete with News Chronicle and New Statesman who were supportive of Soviet policy.

Staggers

The New Statesman, a British political journal nicknamed "The Staggers"

Stanley Arthur Franklin

As a free-lance cartoonist he produced work for the New Statesman and for illustrated books: Alf Garnett's Little Blue Book (1973), The Thoughts of Chairman Alf (1973), Alf Garnett Scripts (1973), and Dick Emery's In Character (1973).


Albert Montefiore Hyamson

Lloyd George even claimed that one of Hyamson's articles in the New Statesman had stimulated his interest in Zionism.

Alison Kervin

She has also worked as a journalist for publications as diverse as The Spectator, New Statesman, Company, Woman’s Own, Vogue, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, That's Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, Country Life and Tatler.

Anthony Thwaite

He has worked for BBC Radio, the New Statesman as literary editor, and from 1973 to 1985 as editor of Encounter with Melvin J. Lasky.

Arindam Mukherjee

Arindam’s works have so far been published in Private Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, Stern, New Statesman, Der Spiegel, Liberation, Devolkskrant, Le Figaro and several other major publications around the globe.

Arrow of God

Arrow of God won the first ever Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African writing.

Barry Tebb

His first collection was praised by John Carey in the New Statesman and his work was included in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain.

Charles Madge

A chance encounter with Tom Harrisson through the pages of the New Statesman in 1937 led to the pair's establishment of Mass-Observation, a unique social experiment to record the thoughts of 'ordinary' people on contemporary subjects.

Contingent vote

Although some commentators credit the invention of SV to Plant, it was actually the brainchild of the then Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Workington, Dale Campbell-Savours, who advocated and outlined it in an article he wrote for an issue of the left-leaning New Statesman magazine that was published four years before Plant reported, on September 29, 1989.

Denis Pitts

Denis Pitts first became widely known for his reports on the Suez Crisis and his subsequent articles in the New Statesman.

Eric Rhode

His writing on film appeared in Sight and Sound, The Listener, Encounter, The Observer; he contributed pieces on literature and art to the New Statesman and The Financial Times, while the New Society and The Times Literary Supplement published pieces on psychoanalytic topics, and occasional pieces ran in The Sunday Times.

Holbrook Jackson

Initially Jackson and Orage co-edited, with Jackson setting the editorial line with Cecil Chesterton and Clifford Sharp (later the editor of the New Statesman).

Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union

On 12 December 1980, the British journalist Duncan Campbell revealed the existence of the Standing Committee on Pressure Groups (SCOPG) which set up by the Hong Kong government to increase its control over the opposition groups under secret surveillance in New Statesman and PTU was one of the pressure groups.

J. C. Squire

His poetry from World War I was satirical; at the time he was reviewing for the New Statesman, using the name Solomon Eagle (taken from a Quaker of the seventeenth century) - one of his reviews from 1915 was of The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence.

Le Roux Smith Le Roux

With allegations left unanswered, Le Roux's campaign gained support from scholars (Denis Mahon), art critics (Denys Sutton of the Financial Times), members of parliament, and the press (Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman).

Paul Kingsnorth

In recent years, he has written for or contributed to the Guardian, Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express, Le Monde, New Statesman, Ecologist, New Internationalist, Big Issue, Adbusters, BBC Wildlife, openDemocracy, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Four, ITV and Resonance FM.

Roger Woddis

He was also New Statesmans weekly poet from 1970 until months before his death, following in the footsteps of 'Macflecknoe'; 'Sagittarius' (Olga Katzin); and Reginald Reynolds; and succeeded by Bill Greenwell.

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold

In a review published, shortly after the book's publication, in the New Statesman, J. B. Priestley argued that the autobiographical Pinfold was intoxicating himself in solitude with drugs and alcohol to deaden his mind in a conflict between his writerly self and his assumed persona as a Catholic landed gentleman.

Yuri Shvets

In his 2005 book "Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer", Victor Cherkashin alleges that "Socrates" was John Helmer and Sputnitsa the late New Statesman journalist Claudia Wright.


see also

ClientEarth

Employees of ClientEarth include Professor Ludwig Kramer and CEO James Thornton environmentalist; the latter was named by the New Statesman in 2009 as one of "ten people who could change the world".

Cristina Odone

Following a dispute with Johann Hari while they were colleagues at the New Statesman, Odone commented that pejorative changes were made to her Wikipedia entry and the entries on Francis Wheen and Nick Cohen.

Euston Manifesto

The manifesto was published in the New Statesman and in The Guardian's "Comment is Free" section, then was launched formally on 25 May 2006 at the Union Chapel in Islington.

Jeremy Brooks

Now settled in London, Brooks wrote his fourth novel (Smith, As Hero, 1964) and worked for New Statesman, The Sunday Times and the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Aldwych, becoming Literary Manager there in 1964.

Jock Campbell

Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (1912–1994), former chairman of Booker McConnell, Chairman of the New Statesman and Nation and the first chairman of the Milton Keynes Development Corporation

Lucy Beresford

Lucy also reviews contemporary fiction for a variety of British publications including The Spectator New Statesman, Literary Review, and the Sunday Telegraph.

Martin Bright

In 2001, Bright wrote "The Great Koran Con Trick", an article in the New Statesman about the work of the Islamicist scholars John Wansbrough, Michael Cook, Patricia Crone, Andrew Rippin and Gerald Hawting, associated in the 1970s with the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

Simon Heffer

Writing in the New Statesman, Professor David Crystal observed that although it contains valid points about ambiguity, honesty and importance of clarity, inconsistencies permeate the book.