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2024-07-18

Current affairs, world politics, the arts and more from Britain's award-winning magazine. Its founders were Sidney and Beatrice Webb (later Lord and Lady Passfield), along with Bernard Shaw, and a small but influential group of Fabians.

New Statesman brings you the latest news business and finance news from the UK and around the world. The Webbs' previous publication, The Crusade, had existed to gain support for the Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, and for Beatrice Webb's National Committee for the Prevention of Destitution.

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