New Statesman - 27 February 2012

New Statesman - 27 February 2012
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The New Statesman was created in 1913 with the aim of permeating the educated and potent classes with socialist ideas. Its founders were Sidney and Beatrice Webb (later Lord and Lady Passfield), along with Bernard Shaw, and a slender but influential group of Fabians. The Webbs' antecedent publication, The Crusade, had existed to secure support for the Minority Report of the Royal Commission up~ the body the Poor Law, and for Beatrice Webb's National Committee with a view to the Prevention of Destitution. However, it had died about less than two years, when it became exposed that no government would swallow the Minority Report total, with all its socialist implications. The New Statesman was created to fill a glass the gap.