The New Statesman

New Statesman Limited

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About this app

The New Statesman offers you independent, reflective, progressive, award-winning journalism, the best political reporting, and the finest literary and cultural essays from your favourite NS writers such as Stephen Bush, Adam Tooze, Sophie McBain, Tracey Thorn, Ailbhe Rea and the rest of the team.

Single issues of the magazine can be downloaded through the app (£3.99), whilst monthly (£9.99) and annual (£129.99) auto-renewable subscriptions are also available.

Alternatively, direct subscribers may log in using their customer email address to enjoy the digital version of the New Statesman.


**Important notes on auto-renewals**

. Payment will be charged to your Google Play Account on confirmation of purchase.

. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the existing period.

. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and will identify the cost of the renewal.

. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's 'Account Settings' after purchase.

No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during the active subscription period.

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Ratings and reviews

Font, font, font! Yes, that's why I only give three stars, although the App is no worse than the NS website: the NS is the only one of several digital publications that I read which use a font that gives the sense of text fading at the top of each character. I suspect it is seen as stylistically appealing, but even if that is so, the text is less comfortable to read. I once cancelled my digital sub because I wasn't enjoying it: at the time I struggled to work out why....

The magazine is great and would be worth five stars if only I could read it. But ever since an upgrade a couple of months ago the app has been shite. Freezing or crashing almost every time I use it. Uninstalling, reinstalling, nothing helps. There's no obvious pattern to when it will freeze. Every so often it even works properly. Avoid until fixed.

As well as the magazine, the New Statesman also publishes digital-only articles and podcasts. BUT you cannot access those through this app - you have to go to your browser (or podcast provider) and log in there. This seems a pretty big design flaw. Why not have all your content in your app? Part of why I went digital was to see everything in the same place but this makes me want to go back to print. On the plus side, NS content is always good and the reading experience is fine on my phone.