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.

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The Cold Web: How Russia and the US became entangled in a new era of great power rivalry, by Emily Tamkin
• The disaster wager: Steven Pinker and Martin Rees on why they bet on man-made catastrophe
• Louise Perry on the mother-baby bond
• Kate Mossman on Joni Mitchell’s Blue