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

Careless people: Why the humiliation of David Cameron is a fitting end to a dismal era of politics, by John Gray
Plus:
• Zones of anarchy: Quentin Sommerville reports from inside the chaos and depravity of Libya’s long civil war
• Roger Mosey on the BBC, deference and the delicate art of royal obituaries
• Emily Tamkin on Hunter Biden
• Megan Nolan on the fall of the office