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 crisis chancellor: can Rishi Sunak’s radical interventions save Britain from economic cataclysm?

Plus: Jeremy Cliffe, Helen Thompson, Jonathan Powell, Emily Tamkin, Dr Phil Whitaker, Jason Cowley, Stephen Bush and Alice O'Keeffe on the coronavirus crisis

And:

Nick Timothy on the return of the state

Megan Nolan on seduction