Stuart Weir

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.

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