This week Mr Cook told the New Statesman that time was running out for the change.
But TheEconomist had achieved one side ambition, to overtake a once serious rival, the socialist New Statesman.
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The Fantasy 2001 website set up by the New Statesman helps people work out who they should be voting for.
"His fondness for big, shiny projects is well known, " Berry wrote in a blog for the New Statesman Web site.
The Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable pretty much said the same in a recent opinion piece in the New Statesman.
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Labour and the New Statesman magazine then submitted Freedom of Information requests.
That was reported in the New Statesman, in 1985, by Peter Court, who had briefly worked as a graphic designer for the Sun.
Writing in this week's New Statesman magazine, Mr Kaufman warns people not to be "deluded" into believing that the Board represents all Jews in Britain.
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In the New Statesman, George Eaton ponders whether Mr Cameron would allow members of his cabinet to campaign on different sides in a future referendum.
Suddenly there was a new statesman of international caliber, it appeared.
Writing in the New Statesman, Lib Dem Business Secretary Vince Cable suggested the government might need to change course on the economy and consider borrowing more.
Earlier this month, for instance, Assange wrote an essay in the British magazine New Statesman, arguing that WikiLeaks is only part of a long media tradition.
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So when Mr Alvarez writes in his biography about his awful time as the drama critic of the New Statesman, there is bound to be sympathy from his circle.
In a New Statesman interview in November 2000, he undermined the views of his boss, Ann Widdecombe, by saying a draconian clampdown on cannabis smokers would be "transparently absurd".
He was almost as proud of being an amateur jazz critic (writing for years, under a pseudonym, for the New Statesman) as he was of being a professional historian.
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Labour peer Lord Glasman said the party "show no signs of winning the economic argument" under Mr Miliband, in an interview with the New Statesman earlier this week.
Even non-communist left-wingers, including the publisher Victor Gollancz and the New Statesman editor Kingsley Martin, were reluctant to publish his accounts of what had happened, for fear of harming the overall cause of anti-fascism.
It was never limited to books, though he was books editor for the Spectator, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement, and an in-house reviewer, from 1983 to 1989, for the New York Times.
In an article for the New Statesman, he said Labour was "back as the party opposing 'Tory cuts'" and in danger of becoming a "repository for people's anger" rather than a party with answers to the country's problems.
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Save for the "weeklies" that Jimmy reads (he favors the New Statesman) and the snippets of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony heard on the radio, there are no cultural markers on display beyond the text of the play itself.
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He is not just that staple of political novels, the talented son of an artisan, who becomes a socialist and then goes on to turn himself into multi-millionaire, government minister, owner of the New Statesman and (an essential accessory, this, in the laddish culture of New Labour) part-owner of a football club.
Grant sported a hidden tape recorder during drinks with a former celebrity-beat journalist and published the most scandalous and interesting parts of their conversation in the New Statesman, including whether or not Rupert Murdoch had any idea about the phone hacking that journalists were doing at News of the World, one of the newspapers owned by News Corp.
There is the sociology section, the science section, old sheet music and menus, and you can go to the periodicals room anytime and read old issues of the New Statesman. (And you can whisper loudly to a friend in the next carrel to get the hockey scores.) To see that that is so is at least to drain some of the melodrama from the subject.
By contrast, Americans were told that Obama was a great orator, a brilliant intellect, the harbinger of a post-racial America, a master facilitator of bipartisanship, and a global statesman for the new century.
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Edward Altman, an elder statesman of the credit world and a New York University professor, suggests staying north of B-rated junk bonds.
Although he lived to see the hegemony of New Labour and relished his role as an elder statesman, he compounded Labour's crisis by staying on as leader for 18 months after losing.
In 1986, American statesman Averell Harriman died in Yorktown Heights, New York, at age 94.
Red Sox statesman David Ortiz said he had no trouble with the new era of Prohibition.
Perhaps the saddest aspect of Mr Khatami's dilemma is that he is being solicited not because he has new ideas or new methods of advancing old ones, but because he is an elder statesman whom the Council of Guardians, a vetting body, would not dare bar from running.
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