Talk:New Statesman

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Contents 1 Verification Needed 2 Really Socialist? 3 More still needed 4 Image depicting new look needed 5 The competitions 6 History 7 Consistency needed with title history 8 Fair use rationale for Image:Newstatesmini.jpg 9 Jock Campbell

[edit] Verification Needed

This article needs a lot of citations. Lot's of information, but give references to where they came from.

[edit] Really Socialist?

Is the New Statesman really a socialist magazine? Having actually bought and read it myself, I would argue that it is a left-wing political magazine, despite its socialist origins.

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The editor Kampfner said in a recent introduction that the magazine was "true to its heritage of radical politics"

[edit] More still needed

I've rejigged this but it still needs a lot more detail: the history is far too sketchy still, particularly on the post-1960 period.

[edit] Image depicting new look needed

The image currently on the article needs updating to one that displays the recently adopted, new look of the magazine. 86.135.174.224 20:58, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The competitions

If the entry is expanded it might be good to give the competitions a mention. The end. Notreallydavid 00:37, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History

We are really short on history here. Among the editors of the Nation was Leonard Woolf; surely that merits a mention. Citation: [1] - Jmabel | Talk 19:20, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Consistency needed with title history

When exactly did The Statesman become The New Statesman?

Was it in 1930 when "merged with the Liberal weekly the Nation, and changed its name to the New Statesman and Nation, which it remained until 1964."?

Or was it in 1988 when "The Statesman acquired the weekly New Society ... and merged with it, becoming New Statesman and Society for the next eight years."

There seems to be some confusion about this. Also, the journal seems to be referred to (perhaps in the affectionate vernacular) as The Statesman when surely it should be The New Statesman since the former denotes its original title. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Angry candy (talk • contribs) 15:36, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

My understanding is that it has always been The New Statesman, the reason being to avoid confusion with the Indian publication The Statesman. BTLizard (talk) 14:15, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Newstatesmini.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 22:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Jock Campbell

If anyone has any (citable) information about Jock Campbell (former chairman of the New Statesman and Nation) and sponsor (?) of the "Jock Campbell/New Statesman Prize for African Literature", your contribution to the article about him would be appreciated. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)