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Article: Media: Staggeringly masculine The New Statesman may have gone soft under New Labour, but it's still a male clique.

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March 16, 1999
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It's a sleepy Friday afternoon in the sleepy office of the New Statesman. Beige blinds are closed against the murky London light, and dotted around the large room are a dozen or so people, sometimes murmuring into a telephone, sometimes breaking into subdued laughter. Michael McGuinness, the illustrator, in a hairy blue sweater, pauses and dips his brush in red ink, pauses and dips, pauses and dips. "It's a quiet place to work," he says softly, "after being at newspapers." All the men I meet - and today the editors here are all men, since I have arrived during a week when the deputy editor, Cristina Odone, is on holiday - are pretty mellow. David Gibbons, the art editor, formerly of The ...

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