Stuart Weir (born 1938) is a British journalist, writer, and Visiting Professor with the Government Department at the University of Essex. He was previously the Director of the Democratic Audit, formerly a research unit of the University of Essex. [1] Weir was a founder of the constitutional reform pressure group Charter 88, and was editor of the weekly political magazine the New Statesman from 1987 to 1991, [2] having previously been deputy editor of New Society, [1] which merged with the New Statesman in 1988. [2] Weir was editor of the Labour Party's monthly magazine New Socialist in the mid-1980s.
Stuart Weir (born 1938) is a British journalist, writer, and Visiting Professor with the Government Department at the University of Essex. He was previously the Director of the Democratic Audit, formerly a research unit of the University of Essex. [1] Weir was a founder of the constitutional reform pressure group Charter 88, and was editor of the weekly political magazine the New Statesman from 1987 to 1991, [2] having previously been deputy editor of New Society, [1] which merged with the New Statesman in 1988. [2] Weir was editor of the Labour Party's monthly magazine New Socialist in the mid-1980s.