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Feb 26, 2015 • 22min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Nine

This week, George Eaton and Stephen Bush ask if it's too soon to write off Ukip, Ian Steadman tells you everything you need to know about dwarf planet Ceres, and Stephanie Boland praises London's Feminist Library.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 19, 2015 • 32min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Eight

This week, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian talk about Labour's plans for the railways and the Tories' plans for welfare, Ian Steadman and Tosin Thompson consider whether they'd be willing to die on Mars, and Caroline Crampton and Barbara Speed look to the future of podcasts.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 12, 2015 • 32min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Seven

This week, Barbara Speed and Caroline Crampton ask, is Labour's pink bus really that patronising? Plus, George Eaton and Ashley Cowburn discuss the rise of the small party, and Ian Steadman warns of the dangers of talking to your TV.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 5, 2015 • 29min

The New Statesman Podcast" Episode Seventy-Six

This week, Harry Lambert and George Eaton debate the implications of the Ashcroft poll, Ian Steadman and Barbara Speed discuss the measles outbreak in America, and Caroline Crampton and Jonn Elledge find the current housing crisis inescapably depressing.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 29, 2015 • 20min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Five

This week, George Eaton and Stephen Bush find it's been another bad week for Labour, Caroline Crampton and Jonn Elledge talk girls and Ghostbusters, and Stephanie Boland chats to Stuart Maconie about the problem of posh pop.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 22, 2015 • 24min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Four

On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian discuss Labour's hopes for young voters, Ian Steadman explains the significance of 4chan now its founder, Christopher Poole, is stepping down, and Tom Gatti talks through the first episode of the BBC's Wolf Hall adaptation.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 15, 2015 • 36min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Three

On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Jonn Elledge discuss the televised election debates, New Statesman editor Jason Cowley and Xan Rice talk to Shiraz Maher about the jihadi threat to Britain, and Ian Steadman and Alex Hern talk through the decline of Bitcoin.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jan 9, 2015 • 23min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-Two

On this week's New Statesman podcast, George Eaton and Anoosh Chakelian break down the first week of the general election campaign, Ian Steadman discusses a new breakthrough in antibiotic research, and Jonn Elledge and Helen Lewis talk through what it means that London is now bigger than it's ever been.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 18, 2014 • 32min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seventy-One

On this week's New Statesman podcast: George Eaton, Anoosh Chakelian and Helen Lewis review the year in politics, the year that nobody "won", Ian Steadman and Philip Maughan discuss the North Korea hacking scandal, and Caroline Crampton explains why Libby Lane is the perfect candidate to be the Church of England's first female bishop.LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dec 17, 2014 • 54min

Podcast Special: Neil Gaiman talks to Index on Censorship

Fantasy writer Neil Gaiman has a long affiliation with cartoonists, and illustrators, and a history of fighting for them, partly because he spent 12 years on the board of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. Here he speaks to Index on Censorship for an upcoming feature in their magazine. “A nice easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.”LISTEN AD-FREE:📱Download the New Statesman appMORE FROM THE NEW STATESMAN:❓ Ask a question – we answer them every Friday⏰ Get our daily politics newsletter every morning✍️ Enjoy the best of our writing via email every Saturday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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