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Article: Exit, stage Left; Cristina Odone, who has resigned from the New Statesman, denies that she fell out with editor Peter Wilby and describes how she has run out of patience with the 'wicked neo-Left'.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 3, 2004
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Byline: DAVID ROWAN
WHEN Cristina Odone suddenly quit this week as the New Statesman's deputy edit o r, Left- wing infighting appeared to have claimed yet another high-profile scalp. She stormed out, reports said, after "a series of rows" with the editor, Peter Wilby - the latest over last week's cover, which brutally depicts Tony Blair as Stalin.
So when Odone indicates that she wishes to spill the beans to the Evening Standard, it is odd that she chooses proprietor Geoffrey Robinson's empty office, just across from Wilby's, as the place to reveal her secrets. Even more surprising are her jovial greetings to Wilby as she passes, and his warm reply that ...