New Statesman: Straight out of Left field (Independent)

John Kampfner, editor of the New Statesman, is looking pleased with himself. Sales are up, the magazine is making money and it's winning awards, the latest of which was to Kampfner himself when he was named editor of the year in the current affairs magazine category at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards last week. It has just signed up a new columnist, the comedian Shazia Mirza, and