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Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford
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Crossman, Richard Howard Stafford
(b. London, 15 Dec. 1907; d. 5 Apr. 1974) British; Lord President of the Council 1966–8 The son of a judge, Crossman was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he was a don before joining the
New Statesman
as assistant editor in 1938. After distinguished service as a specialist in psychological warfare during the Second World War, he was elected Labour MP for Coventry East in 1945, holding the seat continuously until 1974.
Crossman was a frequent left-wing critic of the foreign policy of Clement
Attlee's
government (1945–51), and ...
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Competitive instincts.(THE STRAGGLER)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...in fact still faces, in the famous New Statesman weekly competition. I spent my late-te...a good place to start reading. The New Statesman and Nation, to give the periodical...prizewinner from a published compilation of New Statesman competitions that I received as a Christmas...
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Courtroom coup: Bye-Bye, jury. (Citings).(jury trials almost a thing of the past in England)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Reason
; ...two-thirds of all jury trials, according to a report in the New Statesman. New rules would allow a wide range of offenses (including...stealth and with as little public comment as possible. As the New Statesman's Nick Cohen put it, In America, Australia or any other common-l...
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The New Republic Reader: Eighty Years of Opinion and Debate.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...American equivalent of our own lefty New Statesman. Confronted by a fat anthology of New...already been grossly unfair to The New Statesman? By imputing its supposed defects and...I find most of the defects of The New Statesman somewhere in The New Republic and some...
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Beneath the carapace. (Malcolm Muggeridge; includes related article) (Cover Story)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...know again. In 1955 an irreverent article he wrote for the New Statesman on the Royal family, Royal Soap Opera, was further shock...diffidently, to read something he had just written for the New Statesman, an article headed Why I Believe, in which he made a heartfelt...
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 "Milton Keynes Citizen (Milton Keynes, England)")
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Star Rik's a sick B'stard!(Theater review)
Newspaper article from: Milton Keynes Citizen (Milton Keynes, England)
; ...no joke Rik Mayall has had to pull out of his hit show The New Statesman at Milton Keynes Theatre through illness. His place will...form, played Milton Keynes last year. It is a shame but The New Statesman is an excellent show and the understudy Mike Sherman has...
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What's Next?(Brief Article)(Column)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...U.K. The classic instance of this tiny genre was the old New Statesman competition, some of whose entries have passed into the general...past St. Paul's / A lady grabbed me by the elbow . . . The New Statesman has been in a long decline, and it has been years since I...
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Copenhagen's city center comes alive.(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: Market Europe
; ...city is back. According to an August 15, 2005 report in The New Statesman (London), the cafe lifestyle, long a hallmark of other, more...closely associated with the rejuvenation was quoted by The New Statesman as saying that no city anywhere in the world that has redesigned...
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Notes & Comments: March 2000.
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; ...of reality finally insinuated itself into the pages of the New Statesman? The venerable English weekly, founded in 1913, has always...Imagine our surprise, then, when on Valentine's Day the New Statesman published an essay on liberalism that would not have been...
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Satanic arrogance.(Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Modern Age
; MARTIN AMIS, WHO BEGAN as a journalist with The New Statesman in the early 1970s and then moved to the writing of...Hitchens. In the early 1970s they both wrote for The New Statesman. Amis records a number of their talks in his partly...
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Trappings.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review
; Trappings by Richard Howard. Turtle Point Press, 8l pp., $14.95. That Howard continues to write poems of dazzling...Such vision and distinctive gifts should never seem too familial: with Trappings, Richard Howard continues to astonish.
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