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10 unusual facts about The New Statesman


Agnes Mure Mackenzie

Mackenzie was a frequent contributor of reviews to the Times Literary Supplement and The New Statesman, she also lectured, and worked as a reader for publishers.

Albert Montefiore Hyamson

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

Bad Timing

John Coleman in The New Statesman gave it a very bad review: "it has an overall style which plays merry hell with chronology".

Benjamin Ivry

Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer, New York Sun, New England Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, The New Statesman, The New York Times, Bloomberg.com, and The Washington Post.

Erna Paris

2001: The New Statesman Best Books, Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History

Harry Nicolaides

Nicolaides later also lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, and wrote an article about the country as he perceived it, for The New Statesman.

Lady Marcia Fitzalan-Howard

Fitzalan acts in British TV and films; she is perhaps best known for her role opposite Rik Mayall as Sarah B'Stard in the ITV sitcom, The New Statesman.

Renee Short

Later in her career she received a regular credit as 'Parliamentary Adviser' to the Yorkshire Television sitcom The New Statesman.

The Perennial Philosophy

CEM Joad wrote in The New Statesman and Society that although the book was a mine of learning and the commentary was profound, readers would be surprised to find that Huxley had adopted a series of peculiar beliefs such as the curative power of relics and spiritual presences incarnated in sacramental objects.

Wally Fawkes

The two also produced occasional contributions for Private Eye, and from 1962 The New Statesman.


A History of Christianity

Malcolm Muggeridge, writing in The New Statesman, described the book as 'masterly... combining great wealth of scholarship, with a vigorous, confident style," and Alan Brien in The Sunday Times called it " vivid, colourful, clear and often at once impassioned and witty.