New Statesman editor Jason Cowley is to begin writing a weekly sports column for the relaunched London Evening Standard from this Friday.
Cowley, a former editor of Observer Sport Monthly, replaces former Tory cabinet minister David Mellor who has been dropped from the paper after 11 years, according to MediaGuardian.co.uk.
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