Jason Cowley is a journalist, magazine editor and writer.

He is a commentator, feature writer and book reviewer for the Sunday Times.

He was editor-in-chief of the New Statesman from 2008-2024, Editor of Granta (2007-2008), and Editor of the Observer Sport Monthly magazine (2003-2007).

He has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism (2019) and is a multiple winner of Editor of the Year award (politics and current affairs), at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards.

His books are The Last Game: Love, Death and Football (Simon & Schuster, 2009), Reaching for Utopia (Salt Publishing, 2018), Statesmanship: The Best of the New Statesman, 1913-2019 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson; a revised and updated paperback edition was published in 2020).

He wrote the introduction to the Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of George Orwell’s Animal Farm (2021).

In 2023 he chaired the judges of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction’s 25th anniversary Winner of Winners Award.

He is a trustee of The Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden, Essex, and an ambassador of the British Society of Magazine Editors.

His most recent book is Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England (Picador).