A new era for the New Statesman

The first editor of the New Statesman was Clifford Sharp in the Leader of the very first issue in 1913 .

There is something a little daunting about assuming a role once held by the likes of Sharp , Kingsley Martin , Paul Johnson and Jason Cowley .

This is the magazine of Virginia Woolf and Martin Amis , not to mention Mehdi Hasan , Stephen Bush , Patrick Maguire and Helen Lewis .