10 memorable pieces from my editorship

Melvyn Bragg persuaded Carol Hughes , widow of Ted Hughes , to allow us to publish a previously unseen poem by the late poet laureate.

The Ted Hughes estate has never granted permission for the poem to be published online but it was included in Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman for which I wrote the introduction and edited.

In 2015 our star interviewer Kate Mossman travelled to Milan to meet the man who used to be called Terence Trent D’Arby.

But then in 1995 he changed his name to Sananda Maitreya after a series of dreams.

Ed Docx writes from the perspective of Dr Jim Down , a consultant at a Covid ICU unit at University College Hospital in London during the first peak of the pandemic.