"We have brought it about ourselves—by a Ruhr occupation, by an English nullity, and by a German false will. We have done it ourselves. But apparently it was not to be helped."

In 1934 H G Wells interviewed Joseph Stalin in Moscow. The fallout from the meeting led to a battle between three intellectual powerhouses - Shaw, Keynes and Wells - each of whom argued for their own vision of socialism in the UK.

William Empson on Richard Ellmann's classic James Joyce biography, from the NS archive.

3 March 1917.

After worldwide May Day riots, Naomi Klein argues in favor of the anti-corporate movement's "decentralised" nature.

29 August 1953.

Diana Quick, Margi Clarke, Vanessa Redgrave and others.

30 September 1988.

Kate Hudson, General Secretary of CND, recalls her first trip to Greenham Common.

The first New Statesman leader, published on 12 April 1913.

The American man of letters gives guidance to writers and journalists on both sides of the Atlantic.

Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated forty-five years ago today. Here, Alan Brien reports from a grief-stricken New York.

Meet the first editor of the New Statesman.