Letters: Paul Barker obituary

Under the creative editorship of Paul Barker there was certainly a lot of intellectual excitement to be found in the magazine New Society. But it also displayed an extraordinary graphic range, built up by the designer, Richard Hollis. And there was also the bedrock of social policy and social work, with ads that kept the magazine in being.

In the late 1990s, when I arrived at the London School of Economics to do a PhD 25 years after being New Societty’s education correspondent, it was gratifying to be met by senior professors asking if I was “the” Anne Corbett. But then those professors were among the magazine’s first champions: as the students reading the regular contributions of those of us writing the social policy notes and doing the reportage, and themselves contributing their first articles.
Anne Corbett

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