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 Facebook fixer - How Nick Clegg became the most powerful British politician in the world. Interview by Edward Docx



After the space race - Erica Wagner Why we’re still living in the shadow of the Apollo 11 mission, 50 years on



Jonathan Liew - How diversity triumphed in English cricket



Megan Nolan - Reflections on my teenage affairs with older men