Jason Cowley is a journalist, magazine editor and writer.

He was editor-in-chief of the New Statesman from 2008-2024. He writes for the Sunday Times and the New Statesman.

He was editor of Granta (2007-2008), editor of the Observer Sport Monthly magazine (2003-2007), literary editor of the New Statesman (1998-2002), and a staff writer on The Times (1996-1998).

He has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism and is a multiple winner of Editor of the Year, Politics and Current Affairs, at the British Society of Magazine Editors awards.

He is the author of a memoir, The Last Game: Love, Death and Football (Simon & Schuster, 2009), and a book of essays and profiles, Reaching for Utopia (Salt Publishing, 2018).

In 2019, he edited and wrote the introduction to 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, Who Are We Now? (Picador), is about the condition of England.

He is working on a short book about Clement Attlee.