The Times Magazine

Compelling, smart, stylish (and a little bit playful) - The Times Magazine stands out from the rest week in week out. Our readers trust us to offer originality, expertise and balance when grappling with the big issues, as well as first class celebrity interviews, brilliant writing from our columnists and a healthy dose of humour. All this is packaged with the design and high impact photography of a monthly magazine.

The data speaks for itself. Over the last year, five of the 10 best performing articles across The Times and Sunday Times digital editions – measured by both reader numbers and subscriptions driven – were from The Times Magazine. That’s more than the news section or any supplement from the Sunday Times.

Our interviews take weeks of careful fixing and are always driven by the question “how interesting is this person really?” Under Nicola Jeal’s editorship we have some of the country’s best writers in our arsenal, who can conduct candid interviews with aplomb. In the last year our covers have included Jamie Oliver discussing his midlife crisis; Laura Kenny on her fertility struggles; Charles Spencer on experiencing sexual abuse at school, Penny Lancaster on the menopause and Minnie Driver on sexism and misogyny.

The deeply personal stories we commission are regularly picked up by Apple News to be included in their ‘Top Stories’. When we asked Farah Storr to write about choosing not to have children, we drove almost 2000 sign-ups to The Times and Sunday Times. A piece by Esther Walker on her drinking habit and Kat Brown’s fresh perspective on adult ADHD were huge hits among subscribers and guest visitors alike.

Other weeks our political interviews are the main event: this year we had Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Jess Phillips on our cover. We are as adept at fashion, beauty and food content as we are at running war reports. Catherine Philp’s dispatch from the Israel-Palestine frontline, which looked at accusations of rape, was a masterclass in thorough, nimble journalism.

And this is what the Times Magazine is all about: providing a mix of visually-arresting features that appeal to a range of ages, genders and political persuasions. Take the issue fronted by Jilly Cooper and the stars of Rivals, the hugely successful television adaptation of her book: Alex Hassell, David Tennant, and Aidan Turner, skilfully interviewed by Caitlin Moran when she visited the hit show’s set. Inside in her column, Moran addressed why British teenage girls are the unhappiest in Europe; Tony Blair opened up to Alice Thomson on leadership, regrets, and what he’d do if he was still in No. 10. We also ran an entertaining interview with William Hanson, etiquette advisor to royalty, who taught Ben Machell a thing or two about table manners over lunch at Claridges; and a young writer, Mary-Kate Harrington, revealed how she almost drank herself to death in her early twenties.