Article: Media: New left, new look This week, the New Statesman will receive a colourful, glamorous make- over. But will it make any difference to a title struggling to recapture past glories? DAVID LISTER has a preview - and takes a look at the week's other big launch

As one leftish organ falls out of love with colour, so another discovers its garish joys. The Daily Mirror may have removed red from its masthead, but readers of the New Statesman this Friday are in for a garish shock. Its editor, Peter Wilby, has overseen a radical rethink of the weekly magazine's look, putting colour on every spread and giving the political journal a cleaner and more cogent design. It will be preceded by some eye-catching, if hardly political, posters.

Glam pictures of Bianca Jagger, Mariella Frostrup and Ann Widdecombe (all right, glam-ish) will have underneath them the words, "Expect The Unexpected." There are whispers that Frostrup was a late choice for the line-up, ...

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