New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political weekly newspaper which is published in London. The journal was founded in 1913 championed in its history many different positions, but were always left of center. Since 2008, the Journal of Progressive Digital Media of the British businessman Mike Danson belongs.

1913-1945

1913 founded Sydney Webb and Beatrice Webb, the New Statesman, with the support of George Bernard Shaw and other members of the Fabian Society. In the first years editor in chief Clifford Sharp coined the sheet. While the editor of the Labour Party were close, Sharp tended more and more to the Liberal Party. A prominent employees at this time was Leonard Woolf.

1930 merged the Statesman with the liberal weekly The Nation and changed its name in 1964 to the New Statesman and Nation. That same year, Kingsley Martin was chief editor. Editor in chief of the nation at that time was the economist John Maynard Keynes, who took an important role in the merged leaf.

The newspaper moved in this period strongly to the left. They advocated a militant anti -fascist course and criticized the policy of appeasement vehemently. She was also notorious for defending the policies of Joseph Stalin. For example, they criticized George Orwell's book Homage to Catalonia vehemently because " is any criticism of the Soviet Union is a critique of socialism itself. " During this time, the circulation rose from 13,000 to 70,000 copies.

1945-1970

The Journal won great influence on the debates within the Labour Party. Among other things, it published the Keep- Left Manifesto of the House member Richard Crossman, Michael Foot and Ian Mikardo in which they demanded that the UK should walk a path between USA and the Soviet Union and not ally with the United States. Although Martin never klarkam with the leaders of the trade union left Aneurin Bevan, the paper criticized harshly the then less radical union leadership. It campaigned against the Korean War, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took its founding pulse by an article in the Gazette.

Among the subsequent editors John Freeman and Paul Johnson the sheet reached its highest circulation of 90,000, which it ever had, at the editorial line changed little.

Since 1970

Only after Johnson left his post in 1970, it went with the blade down. Various editors it positioned between radical- left and left -center, sometimes also written Reported opponents of socialism in the leaf. Although the Journal in 1988 also bought the New Society and by 1996 New Statesman and Society, was the rest fell by the same year to 23,000 pieces. After the sheet had claimed in 1993, the former ( conservative ) Prime Minister John Major had an extramarital relationship, the subsequent process brought the sheet to the brink of ruin.

1996 bought by the Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson the sheet, fired most of the left-wing journalists and supported the line of Tony Blair. This lasted but not long, 1998, pursued under the new editor Peter Wilby one more left embossed direction, which continued under his successor and former political editor John Kampfner (from 2005).

In April 2008, the Progressive Digital Media acquired under the direction of British businessman Mike Danson ( founder and until its sale to Informa head of the software company Datamonitor ) 50 % stake in the New Statesman, in the following year the remaining shares.