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 Great Housing Con: Why the coming property crash will rewrite the rules of the economy, by Will Dunn, plus: • John Gray on the Iraq War and the age of tragic realism • Joan Bakewell on living with cancer • Rod Stewart vs Rishi Sunak: a Tory rocker’s left turn, by Rachel Cunliffe • Edward Hopper’s visions of New York