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

Spring special

John Gray on the defining crisis of our times, and:

Jeremy Cliffe, Tracey Thorn, Simon Armitage, Helen Macdonald, Elif Shafak, Keir Starmer, William Boyd, Grayson Perry, and Adam Tooze, plus:

• Hilary Mantel on finding joy

• A new story by Bernardine Evaristo