# The Saturday Read

Your guide to the best writing on politics, culture, books, and ideas each weekend - from the New Statesman

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## [The Saturday Read: Summer of scandal](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-summer-of-scandal)

_2026-08-15_

The weekend's line-up.

## [A very British scandal](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/a-very-british-scandal)

_2026-08-12_

Cambridge university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials

## [The Saturday Read: Ends and beginnings](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-ends-and-beginnings)

_2026-08-08_

The weekend's line-up.

## [Exclusive: Brexit "bad boy" Arron Banks launched probe into Sunday Times journalist](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/exclusive-brexit-bad-boy-arron-banks)

_2026-08-08_

The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage’s finances

## [Europe's shame](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/europes-shame)

_2026-08-05_

The Ceuta crisis has exposed the continent’s hollow centre

## [The Saturday Read: The world burns](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-the-world-burns)

_2026-08-01_

This weekend's line-up.

## [The new terror](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-new-terror)

_2026-07-29_

Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race

## [The Saturday Read: A new start](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-saturday-read-a-new-start)

_2026-07-25_

Good morning.

## [No laughing matter](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/no-laughing-matter)

_2026-07-23_

Jim Davidson and Nigel Farage represent an England that will not go quietly

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## [The Take Over](https://saturdayread.substack.com/p/the-take-over)

_2026-07-22_

In his first days in No 10, Andy Burnham showed his determination to do politics differently