Stuart_Weir_(UK_journalist)
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 1987–91,[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.