Anatomy of a Crisis
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian interviews David Ottewell, Head of Data Journalism, about the special edition of the New Statesman that dissects the coronavirus crisis via the use of data and polling. Then, in You Ask Us, Stephen Bush and Ailbhe Rea answer your question on Keir Starmer's stance on the Black Lives Matter movement.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. |
| 0:31.0 | Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas and there's too often a post-code lottery |
| 0:36.1 | when it comes to that all-important early diagnosis. |
| 0:40.0 | The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research intensive global bio pharmaceutical company |
| 0:46.2 | active in several key areas of global health, including immunization and oncology. |
| 0:51.8 | They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman |
| 0:54.9 | podcast in which thought leaders explore how the UK can and must tackle health |
| 0:59.8 | inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment. |
| 1:04.0 | Listen to the episode now. |
| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. Hello on this week's news station podcast Anush interviews David Otwell about our |
| 1:26.7 | cover story this week anatomy of a crisis and you ask Alva and I whether or not |
| 1:31.4 | Kirstama is creating problems for himself in his responses to the Black Lives Matter movement. |
| 1:39.8 | So we're delighted to be joined by our head of data journalism David |
| 1:44.6 | Otwell for his podcast debut. Thanks so much for joining us David. Listeners |
| 1:48.7 | probably don't know that David and I have been particularly busy over the |
| 1:51.5 | past couple of months working on a special issue of the new states |
| 1:54.8 | called the anatomy of a crisis and in this issue we've been polling over 500 business leaders |
| 2:01.5 | comparing 14 major world economies across more than 40 |
| 2:05.3 | coronavirus related data points and analysed 10 years of data on cuts to our local |
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