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 magazine (2007-2008), and Editor of the Observer Sport Monthly magazine (2003-2007).

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

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

His most recent book is Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England (Picador), 2022.

He is writing a short book about Clement Attlee for the Swift Press’ Prime Minister Series.