"Build the tunnel right through stonehenge" | Anoosh & Will's weekly round-up
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
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🗓️ 21 March 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Anoosh and Will are back with this week's round up of the politics stories you might have missed.
This week:
- Housing Secretary Steve Reed has the perfect opportunity to "build, baby, build"
- Misinformation powerhouse InfoWars is officially over - just like the Metaverse
- Pete Hegseth seems to encourage the US army to commit war crimes
- Rachel Reeves takes a gamble on building "an army of Burnhams"
READ:
Anoosh's Thomas Hetherwick interview
Will's sketch on Pete Hegseth - "the boss of tough men in hot places"
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Anusha Kellyan and you're listening to Daily Politics from The New Statesman. |
| 0:09.0 | And I'm here with Will Dunn again for our weekly roundup. Hi Will. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello. |
| 0:14.0 | Our first category is a golden oldie. |
| 0:17.0 | It's our favourite. |
| 0:18.0 | I don't think we can have golden oldies yet. |
| 0:19.0 | We've only been doing this for a few weeks. |
| 0:22.9 | Planning rejection of the week. |
| 0:29.0 | So mine is quite a big deal, actually, is that the Stonehenge Tunnel has officially been scrapped. |
| 0:32.9 | So this is something that's kind of been in contention for a while. |
| 0:38.0 | It received planning permission in 2023, but then was sort of dropped for financial reasons. |
| 0:41.3 | They've already spent millions on it, 180 million nearly. |
| 0:43.6 | But now it's no longer going ahead. |
| 0:46.5 | And there was a quote from a Wiltshire counsellor who said, |
| 0:51.7 | there's not been any discussion on a viable alternative that reduces congestion and stops the rat running through Wiltshire villages. |
| 0:54.0 | And if you just read that out loud, it sounds like there's a really big rat running through Wiltshire villages. And if you just read that out loud, it sounds like there's a really big rat running through |
| 0:57.4 | Wiltshire villages, which I've heard is what it's like in Birmingham during the bin strike. |
| 1:02.0 | But in Wiltshire. |
| 1:03.6 | We've got to stop the giant rat. |
| 1:05.5 | We've got to stop it. |
| 1:06.9 | Splat the rat. |
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