Martin Bright, political editor of the New Stateman, has laid into the Compass statement put out earlier this week in support of Ken Livingstone and its signatories.  Those who signed up to it include 18 academics, 2 peers, 16 MPs, 2 MEPs, 5 people from the arts, 6 trade union general secretaries and others from across the centre left spectrum.....and the owner and publisher of the New Statesman, Mr Geoffrey Robinson MP.  For more on this story, click here - http://www.tmponline.org/?p=348