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.

Why George Osborne still runs Britain: Will Dunn examines the era of Tory austerity and the economic credentials of its architect. Osborne had a talent, Dunn says, “for playing the economy as a game” – one whose fiscal and political rules we are all still bound by. Plus: