Paul Johnson
Articles by Paul Johnson
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Europe
The French revolution
- 08 May 2008
In May '68, Paul Johnson, the then editor of the New Statesman, extolled Parisian student power in an impassioned article, abridged here, entitled "The new spectre haunting Europe"
Society
Sex, snobbery and sadism
- 05 February 2007
The New Statesman 5 April 1958
Ian Fleming invented his hero James Bond just over 50 years ago. Agent 007 rapidly became one of the icons of his age – a suave, handsome, amoral, patriotic intelligence officer. Today’s commercial success of the new Bond film, Casino Royale, suggests he retains enormous popularity. But as the then left-wing journalist Paul Johnson argued in 1958, Bond was always little more than a crypto-fascist.
Selected by Robert Taylor
World Affairs
Back to Anarchy
- 30 October 2006
Taken from the New Statesman archive, 18 June 1921
This article, which gives such a strong flavour of the anger, anxiety and disillusionment caused by the twin crises of Suez and Hungary, was unsigned when it appeared, but Johnson is credited in the contributors' file. Then aged 28, he had recently returned from a spell as the New Statesman's Paris correspondent; he went on to be one of its most distinguished and flamboyant writers and was editor from
1965-70. In the 1970s he became a Conservative.
Selected by Brian Cathcart
