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In March 2009 the magazine had its first guest editor, Alastair Campbell, the former head of communications for Tony Blair.

Campbell chose to feature his partner Fiona Millar, Tony Blair ( in an article " Why we must all do God "), football manager Alex Ferguson, and Sarah Brown, the wife of Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

This editorship was condemned by Suzanne Moore, a contributor to the magazine for twenty years.

She wrote in a Mail on Sunday article: " New Statesman fiercely opposed the Iraq war and yet now hands over the reins to someone key in orchestrating that conflict ".

Campbell responded: " I had no idea she worked for the New Statesman.

I don't read the Mail on Sunday.

But professing commitment to leftwing values in that rightwing rag lends a somewhat weakened credibility to anything she says.