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May 31, 2013 • 18min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Seven

On this week's half-term edition of the New Statesman podcast Sophie Elmhirst talks to George Pitcher about the new Power Christians at work in the City of London, we discuss Robert Macfarlane's "Holloway" and the problems with the "new" nature writing and Alex Hern explains the saga of Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell's Zenith.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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May 24, 2013 • 38min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Six

In this week's podcast George Eaton and Rafel Behr talk about the failure of David Cameron's modernisation project, Holly Baxter (from the Vagenda) talks about the most important issues facing modern feminism, Sophie Elmhirst and Philip Maughan talk about the return of American novelist James Salter, and Alex Hern explains all you need to know about Tumblr and Yahoo.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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May 17, 2013 • 22min

New Statesman podcast: Episode Five

Rafael Behr, George Eaton and the Spectator's Isabel Hardman talk about the future of the Tory party, Helen Lewis and Felicity Cloake discuss this week's feature on the politics of fatness, and resident young person Alex Hern says "space" a lot.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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May 10, 2013 • 34min

The New Statesman podcast: Episode Four

Featuring George Eaton and Rafael Behr discussing the future of the Liberal Democrats, Sophie Elmhirst speaking to Daniel Dorling about social mobility, Laurie Penny's visit to Iceland to meet the Pirate Party and Jonathan Derbyshire talking books for the last time.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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Apr 30, 2013 • 8min

The New Statesman Podcast: Local Elections Special

Will Ukip break through? Can Labour stay on course? Are the Lib Dems going to be annihilated? In this special episode, NS political correspondents Rafael Behr and George Eaton talk to Helen Lewis about the upcoming local elections.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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Apr 26, 2013 • 34min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Three

In this episode, we discuss our Len McCluskey interview, ask whether tattoos will ever hang in the Louvre, look at spring books with Jonathan Derbyshire, hear about America from Nicky Woolf, and follow up on the role that Reddit played in the hunt for the Boston bombers.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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Apr 22, 2013 • 1h 39min

The New Statesman Centenary Debates: Did the Left win the 20th century?

As part of the New Statesman's Centenary Debates series, on 18 April the NS held a debate with the motion "This house believes the left won the 20th century. Speaking for the motion were NS deputy editor Helen Lewis, author and columnist Simon Heffer and NS contributing writer and Huffington Post political director Mehdi Hasan. Opposing were Times comment editor Tim Montgomerie, Institute of Economic Affairs communications director Ruth Porter, and Independent columnist Owen Jones. The chair was New Statesman editor Jason Cowley.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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Apr 11, 2013 • 54min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode Two - The Centenary Special

In a special bumper hour-long episode, we celebrate a hundred years of the New Statesman. Rafael Behr and George Eaton discuss Thatcher's legacy, Philip Maughan and Jonathan Derbyshire take a trip into the magazine's archives, Daniel Trilling, Yiannis Baboulias and Laurie Penny talk about the reaction to austerity in Europe, Will Self makes the case for a pessimistic world view, Helen Lewis and Sophie Elmhirst discuss the magazine's relationship with poetry, we decide whether or not the Left won the 20th century, and Alex Hern tells you what Bitcoin is.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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Apr 9, 2013 • 1h 41min

The New Statesman Feminism Debate

What is the most important issue facing feminism today? New Statesman writers Helen Lewis, Laurie Penny, Bim Adewunmi, Juliet Jacques, Victoria Smith, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Holly Baxter came together at Conway Hall in London on 4 April 2013 to debate it. Chaired by New Statesman web editor Caroline Crampton, the debate and the audience question session is here in full for podcast listeners to enjoy.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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Apr 2, 2013 • 39min

The New Statesman Podcast: Episode One

The first ever episode of the New Statesman podcast, featuring political analysis, cultural reviews, interviews and more. In our first audio outing, George Eaton talks about Iain Duncan Smith and welfare cuts, Rafael Behr stares into the dark heart of the Conservative Party, Alex Hern talks to the Guardian's Aditya Chakrabortty about the future of the internet, Jonathan Derbyshire and Philip Maughan talk about books, Helen Lewis and Caroline Crampton think on the future of feminism, and much, much more.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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