The New Statesman is Britain's leading and most authoritative weekly political, cultural and current affairs magazine. Irreverent, beautifully written and witty, the New Statesman is the essential read for bright thinkers everywhere. The magazine’s award-winning team of editors and contributors seek to engage readers with great writing, arresting photography, intelligent analysis, bold campaigns and trenchant argument. For a century, our mission has been to provide readers with a rigorous examination of political culture as well as to amuse and entertain.

Latest issue

The Great Moving Left Show: How the pandemic is transforming our politics, by Andrew Marr, plus:

• The Dunkirk delusion: why the myths of 1940 are still haunting Britain 80 years later, by David Reynolds

• Lyndsey Stonebridge on the meaning and value of work in the age of coronavirus

• Jess Phillips on her family lockdown

• Amelia Tait on the art of wasting time