Steve Platt is a British

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and former editor of the ''

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'' magazine (in the period when it was known as ''New Statesman and Society''). The fortnightly ''Statesman'' column by

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began in 1991, while Platt was editor, after the two men had worked together on media campaigns against the First Gulf war.John Pilger and Steve Plat
"Beyond the dross"
''Red Pepper'', July 2010 Platt, "while not securing a spectacular turnaround in the merged ''New Statesman & Society''s fortunes... made it once again readable".Adrian Smith, ''New Statesman': Portrait of a Political Weekly 1913-1931'' (2014), p. 3. Platt was described as "a propagandist, using ''New Statesman & Society'' as a platform for various campaigns against executive abuse of state power", and was credited for bringing stability to it be staying with it, remaking it in a September 1994 into "a much glossier magazine with the self-proclaimed 'new politics' of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Platt now writes for '' Red Pepper'' magazine.

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www.steveplatt.net
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