Elon Musk is The Joker of politics
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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And should Starmer be trying to befriend Elon Musk?
Hannah Barnes, associate editor, is joined by senior editor George Eaton to answer this week's listener questions.
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| 0:30.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, and you're listening to the New Statesman Podcast. |
| 0:37.0 | This is You Ask Us, our weekly episode where every Friday we do our very best to answer as many listener questions as we can. |
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| 0:55.1 | leave a comment on Spotify or YouTube. To go through today's picks I'm joined in |
| 1:00.7 | the studio by a new statesman senior editor George Eton. |
| 1:03.8 | Hello George. |
| 1:04.8 | Right, let's kick us off with Carlisle. |
| 1:07.6 | I assume this is a name and not the whole town of Carlisle and they ask a |
| 1:12.3 | several parted question. is it sensible for Kiestama to be talking |
| 1:16.6 | Elon Musk down when we know he is reactionary and we know how much he is funding Trump. He seems very interested in UK politics and his |
| 1:25.2 | online persona probably aligns closest with reform. Should Starmer be trying to |
| 1:30.4 | befriend Musk or does he have enough rich allies? Will Starma's relationship |
| 1:35.4 | with Musk be getting discussed internally? And of course we're all talking about |
| 1:40.5 | Elon Musk at the moment because he does seem to be rather |
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