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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How Brexit trapped Britain - A special issue on Theresa May’s historic defeat and our political crisis

The Zuckerberg con - Bryan Appleyard. From Bill Gates to Facebook, the fall of tech philanthropy

Nicholas Shakespeare on the end of empire

Ian Leslie on the joy of being bored

Helen Lewis - Why I love to watch trained killers cry on TV