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Culture

A review - The thing that counts

24 April 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 9 February 1935. To be fair to O’Casey, his review of the published text of the play appeared in the books (or “Current Literature”) pages, and not in “Plays and Pictures”. But he was attacking a sacred cow. Greenwood’s novel of Love on the Dole, recounting Sally Hardcastle’s hard life and tough choices in Depression-era Salford, was already established as — and would continue to be for many years — a popular favourite. And, despite O’Casey’s strictures, the play, with Wendy Hiller in the lead role, went on to success both in the West End and on Broadway. - Brian Cathcart

Life & Society

Poisonous gas

17 April 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 28 May 1976. Potter wrote the New Statesman’s weekly television review on and off for two or three years in the 1970s, a time when he was already established as the country’s most controversial television playwright. 1976 was the year his Brimstone and Treacle was banned by the BBC (which did not broadcast it until 1987); Pennies from Heaven appeared in 1978. - Brian Cathcart

Life & Society

Boats

10 April 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 4 April 1925. Lynd wrote for the New Statesman for more than 30 years, usually (as in this case) under the pseudonym "Y Y". A socialist and an Irish nationalist, he is best remembered for his epigrams, including "Happy is the child whose father can acquit himself with credit in front of its friends", and "The belief in the possibility of a short, decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions" - Brian Cathcart

Ideas

The Tyburn mob

03 April 2006
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Taken from the New Statesman archive, 16 May 1959. Ronald Marwood, a Londoner aged 25, had stabbed a policeman while drunk, later giving himself up and confessing. He was one of six men executed in 1959; a further 20 would be hanged before the death penalty for murder was abolished in 1965. This account of the coverage of events surrounding his death was one of the "Fleet Street" columns that Williams, once press adviser to Clement Attlee, wrote for the NS over many years - Brian Cathcart

Politics

The Apotheosis of Mr Baldwin

27 March 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 29 March 1937. Within a few years the well-timed departure of Stanley Baldwin was forgotten by all but a few, and his name became shorthand for Tory complacency. This assessment by the magazine’s editor was unsigned when first published, but in our bound copies from those years the writers’ names or initials have been added in ink - Brian Cathcart

Life & Society

Sex O'Clock High

20 March 2006

Taken from the New Statesman archive, 1 March 1963. The author of The Traveller's Tree and A Time of Gifts, Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor is the doyen of British travel writers. He is also the central figure of W Stanley Moss's Ill Met By Moonlight, a true tale of derring-do in wartime Crete. Now aged 91, he has written only rarely for the New Statesman: perhaps this item taxed the sub-editors' patience too far.

Politics