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

Planet Covid: How the virus holds the world in its grip, by Jeremy Cliffe

Plus:

• The Great Game: Philip Collins on why Brexit is the only issue holding the Tory coalition together

• Robert Harris: Why politics is now too strange even for fiction

• Helen Thompson on the fragile Union

• Tracey Thorn on life after lockdown