The novelist and short story writer Angus Wilson writing in the New Statesman on the Coronation festivities in Essex in 1953: "As our car came down the hill, we could see the jolly jack tar hats and ribbons that mark the merry morris, and there indeed it was, the annual festival, with more than fifty schoolmasters sitting cross-legged in coloured braces, some earnest and hearty, others like Sir Stafford Cripps."

10 April 1937.

“He really wanted to use the cartoon to change the world, to try to engineer opinions.”

12 June 1964.

18 February 1966.

From our correspondence.

Between the covers.

20 May 1977.

From our correspondence.

"I hate feminism. It is poison," she reportedly told her adviser Paul Johnson.

Put not your trust in Princes - Psalm 146.

Sedition in Santiago.

Last train to nowhere.

War hero, Labour MP, New Statesman editor, diplomat, TV interviewer: John Freeman, now in his nineties, combined celebrity with impenetrable privacy. In the first of a series of articles to celebrate the NS centenary, we explore the remarkable life of a man who chose never to look back.