New Statesman

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Archived since 23 - 29 May 2014

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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 question of intent: The former Supreme Court judge Jonathan Sumption weighs the legal and historical basis for defining Israel’s actions in Gaza as war crimes. Also in this issue:

Megan Gibson on the Gaza ceasefire negotiations
Andrew Marr on how social media and online memes poisoned British politics
Anoosh Chakelian on how society decides which immigrants are “deserving” of a life in the UK and which are not
Rowan Williams on Samuel Pepys’s Diary
Will Lloyd reviews How Not to Be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine

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