If New Statesman is progressive, I'd better switch to the Weekly Socialist Worker because this is the iconic centre-left (more centre, really) weekly and it's never wavered.
Indeed, I started reading the NS in 1959. I can't imagine any of the writers contributing then even getting a foot in the door, far,far too left for these days. Any article like the ones that, for example, Ralph Miliband contributed would give the current editor the screaming heebie jeebies.
It was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society... so it kind of lost the narrative somewhere along the way. Maybe when Hitch fell in love with Thatcher?
Great collection this week. Thanks, guys and gals.
You "progressives" began to beat up on Starmer the day after the election. (At least you waited THAT long.)
If New Statesman is progressive, I'd better switch to the Weekly Socialist Worker because this is the iconic centre-left (more centre, really) weekly and it's never wavered.
Indeed, I started reading the NS in 1959. I can't imagine any of the writers contributing then even getting a foot in the door, far,far too left for these days. Any article like the ones that, for example, Ralph Miliband contributed would give the current editor the screaming heebie jeebies.
It was at first connected with Sidney and Beatrice Webb and other leading members of the socialist Fabian Society... so it kind of lost the narrative somewhere along the way. Maybe when Hitch fell in love with Thatcher?
the desperation of those last years was so dire that unholy alliances formed and have yet to dissolve