Are politicians LARPing? | Listener questions

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🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Are the Greens ‘anarchists’? Has British politics become Americanised? And why was Theresa May prime minister?

Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Rachel Cunliffe to answer listener questions and explain LARPing to Andrew Marr.

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0:00.0	Golf. Quiet, calm, polite.
0:04.0	Well, forget all that because this is the Rider Cup.
0:08.0	It turns rivals into teammates and teammates into brothers.
0:12.0	It's chance, it's fancy dress, it's pressure.
0:16.0	It's glory, it's chaos, it's wild, and there's no golf like it.
0:22.0	Enjoy every moment of the Rider Cup.
0:24.1	Exclusively live on Sky Sports.
0:26.4	Available to stream flexibly with no fuss on now.
0:30.1	This Tuesday, Amazon brings the unmissable UAFour Champions League match.
0:35.5	Unbelievable.
0:39.3	Tottenham versus Villarreal.
0:42.3	And it's touched. Goalx.
0:44.3	One a straight. The UAEFA Champions League, Tuesday from 6.30pm.
0:49.3	It's on Prime.
0:53.3	The New Statesman.
0:57.4	What is laughing?
0:58.9	It's live action roleplay, Andrew.
1:01.3	So if I dress up as Andrew Mar and hang around Westminster, am I laughing?
1:05.8	That's meta-lapping.
1:10.0	I'm Anusha-Kelleon, and this is the listener questions episode of the New Statesman podcast, and I'm Anousha Keleyn and this is the listener questions episode of the New Statesman podcast and I'm joined by my colleagues, Andrew Maher and Rachel Cunleff.
1:17.2	Hello.
1:17.5	Hello.
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