Cambridge Literary Festival - Jason Cowley, Stephen Bush & Helen Thompson: The Story of a Magazine and British Politics

Cambridge Literary Festival - Jason Cowley, Stephen Bush & Helen Thompson: The Story of a Magazine and British Politics

Sunday 19 April 2020
Baillie Gifford Stage - The Old Divinity School
CLF - Jason Cowley, Stephen Bush & Helen Thompson: The Story of a Magazine and British Politics

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No British periodical or weekly magazine has a richer and more distinguished archive than the New Statesman, which, since its founding in 1913, has been at the centre of British political and cultural life. And through writers such as HG Wells, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf and John Gray, the new anthology Statesmanship tells the story of modern Britain. To mark its launch, the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jason Cowley and political editor Stephen Bush are joined by Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge and New Statesman columnist, to discuss the magazine’s journey through more than a century of turbulent change, from women’s suffrage to CND to Corbynism; and the challenges of editing a progressive, left-leaning publication in an increasingly right-wing media landscape.
 
Chaired by Helen Lewis, Staff Writer at the Atlantic and former Deputy Editor of the New Statesman
 
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