Normal people have Christmas and birthdays, but for journalism the release of the ABCs is the day when we get a present – in the case of the New Statesman, official confirmation that we are reaching more readers than ever before.
The magazine circulation is the highest in four decades – at a time when print is allegedly dying, and the liberal press is struggling financially – and our coverage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump has boosted both web traffic and subscriptions. (We are also making a profit.) At a time when judges are branded “enemies of the people” for suggesting that parliament should have a say on huge constitutional change, and when the US president is declaring that “any bad polls are fake news” it’s clear that more and more people value independent, sceptical journalism which champions progressive values.
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