New Statesman

Politics Collection

Archived since 23 - 29 May 2014

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572 issues

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:

Generation Screwed: A special report by Vicky Spratt on the economic trap in which Britain’s young people now find themselves – caught between the Nineties promise of a home, secure job and a planned future and the 21st-century reality, where all of those things seem beyond reach. Plus:

Ailbhe Rea on the start of a new term in parliament – and how Andy Burnham needs to handle the Commons
Freddie Hayward on JD Vance’s populist pitch, as he starts to distance himself from the Trump administration
Ethan Croft reports from Kyiv amid Andy Burnham’s visit to Ukraine
Lyse Doucet’s Afghanistan Diary
Lola Seaton reviews Life of M, the controversial new novel by Rachel Cusk

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