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New Statesman

Archived since 23 - 29 May 2014
Modern Archive

570 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:

A Very British Scandal: The controversy surrounding Jason Arday’s fabricated credentials has rocked Cambridge University. For the New Statesman, Cambridge’s former head of politics David Runciman and the Oxford academic Pratinav Anil reflect on what the sociologist’s fall from grace means for institutions that rely on their claims to prestige and heritage, and for British higher education as a whole. Plus: 
  • Jeremy Bowen on why the world has reached the most dangerous period he can remember in his long career as a foreign correspondent
  • Faye Curran attends the Fleadh in Belfast
  • Nick Robinson on populism, the rise of Manchester and jitters over his father-of-the-bride speech
  • Zuzanna Lachendro on the return of Matthew Bourne’s ballet The Car Man

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  • First Issue: 23 - 29 May 2014
  • Latest Issue: 14 - 20 August 2026
  • Issue Count: 570