New Statesman

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.

The Rise of Greedflation: How corporations are profiting from the cost-of-living crisis, by Will Dunn, plus

· Andrew Marr on the middle-aged volatile voters disrupting politics

· Olivia Pym on how Succession fooled us into making heroes of villains

· Bruno Maçães meets China’s ambassador to the EU

· Andrew Motion on the forging of Essex’s identity

· Alex Clark on August Blue, Deborah Levy’s new novel of identity and enchantment