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David Attenborough.

A "boring left-wing liberal" who despairs of standards at the BBC...

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  • Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958) was a suffragette and a co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.

     

  • Kingsley Martin (1897-1969) was editor of the New Statesman from 1930 to 1960.

  • Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) was an author and journalist. He joined the New Statesman in 1973.

  • George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright and the co-founder of the London School of Economics.

  • Doris Lessing is a novelist, poet and playwright. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

  • Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997) was a critic, short story writer and novelist. He was literary editor at the New Statesman from 1926 to 1965.

  • John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was a highly influential British economist.

  • Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) was a writer, economist, socialist and social reformer. Together with her husband Sidney, she founded the New Statesman in 1913.

  • Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a novelist and writer.

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