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

The autumn of discontent: How the government lost control again, by Philip Collins

Plus:

• Our national story: Andrew Marr on how Britain can heal itself in an age of division and upheaval

• Stephen Bush on Starmer vs the left

• Katy Shaw on life behind the Red Wall

• Jeremy Bowen: Beirut after the blast

• Emily Tamkin: An American hero