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Stuart Weir (13 October 1938 – 2 July 2024) was 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. Weir died on 2 July 2024, at the age of 85. [3]
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Stuart Weir (13 October 1938 – 2 July 2024) was 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. Weir died on 2 July 2024, at the age of 85. [3]