What political/current affairs magazine does everyone read?

Private Eye - for insider stories and their tremendous integrity and consistency in exposing hypocrisy, attacking the cynicism and manipulative nature of all parts of the establishment, media and parliament and for the way they nearly always lead the charge on things that are wrong, with others catching up often many years later.

The Economist - for the breadth of its international coverage and for the way it gets to grips with issues and puts forwards its own views but leaves you space to think and does not force agreement or patronise. Overwhelmingly the most coherent source on many important parts of the world and much better informed than most of the rest of the press.

New Statesman - don't bother with it any more - is a shadow of what it used to be.

The Spectator - comical for all its confusion and pseudo-cerebral way it tries to hide it. Often very funny in ways it cannot possibly have deliberately set out to be.

New Scientist - consistently one of the best mags in the High St, contains many challenging articles about the current state of the Earth, the way things are going, environment, energy, research, etc.

Guido Fawkes - scurrilous, street fighting, very often wrong and inaccurate, hopelessly biased towards absurdist libertarian arguments - but for all that, often spot on and incredibly revealing about the reality of politicians in this country and their antics. Worth reading for all the insider material about the hopelessly awful Tory and Labour hypocrisies and humbuggery.

Total Politics - wall to wall boredom. Avoid. Iain Dale used to be worth reading when he regularly wrote under his own name, if only to hate him and everything he said.

Left Foot Forward - the best of the leftish blogs - very accurate and full of surprising facts and insights.

You don't read all that surely. It's impossible.

I skim through The Economist on most weeks, lots of garbage in it these days and loads of it are old news.

It certainly isn't worth £5 a copy (cheaper on Kindle, but a cut-down version) - I would buy it regularly when it was cheaper. I think it is a bit less high quality than it used to be, but some editions are good - like any mag, you have to be choosy about which times you buy it I think.