New Statesman
About New Statesman
The New Statesman is a British political and cultural news magazine published in London. Founded as a weekly review of politics and literature on 12 April 1913, it was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society, such as George Bernard Shaw, who was a founding director. The longest-serving editor was Kingsley Martin (1930–1960), and the most recent editor was Jason Cowley, who assumed the post in 2008 and left in 2024.
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Richard Dawkins wrote a letter in the New Statesman, published as an open letter to David Cameron, in which he wishes him Merry Christmas, adding that he would not accept substitutes to that.
from No Such Thing As Hans Gruber's Silent Night, 2020-12-24 at 00:26:38 · read transcript
Other times New Statesman came up
I do have a true example. Graham Green, the author, once entered a competition of writing like Graham Green and came second. Oh. Which is fantastic. I think it was in the New Statesman. Speaking of, like, Hitler and whoever, Is it true all the stuff about dictators getting lookalikes for themselves? Dictators' lookalikes? I don't know much about them. I know one thing is that there was a guy who looked just like Saddam Hussein, and he got kidnapped or attempted a kidnap from some guys in Egypt because they wanted to make a porn movie of him.
No Such Thing As One Direction in North Korea, 2014-04-11 · listen
Do you stand by it? I did when I read it and sent it to you and let you all research it. Now, having googled it, I can't find any evidence that it's real. It appears in a New Statesman article and it's delivered at the top of the piece very confidently, as if it's fact. I just can't seem to find it anywhere else. I still stand by it.
161: No Such Thing As A Magic Donkey, 2017-04-22 · listen
This is prison on an island just off Helsinki, just really near Helsinki, and it's an open prison. but I was reading an article in The New Statesman, an article written by Helen Lewis, a journalist, who went and visited, and she wanted to go and check out the prison because it's quite famous, and they'd have to close the gates because tourists keep on wandering to the.
No Such Thing As A Bacon Scented Sleep Mask, 2020-11-13 · listen
This is his prison on an island just off Helsinki, just really near Helsinki, and it's an open prison. I was reading an article in the New Statesman, an article written by Helen Lewis, a journalist who went and visited and she wanted to go and check out the prison because it's quite famous. They'd have to close the gates because tourists keep on wandering to the island, which is a tourist destination in its own right and trying to get in.
347: No Such Thing As A Bacon Scented Sleep Mask, 2020-11-13 · listen
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