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The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss their results from the latest iteration of the political compass test, and then, in You Ask Us, look at the power sharing agreement in Northern Ireland and how it's faring during a coronavirus-related scandal.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
| 0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the rain again. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. week's new States and podcast. We discuss a new political compass |
| 0:37.4 | quiz and whether or not we would sleep with an attractive alien. Plus you ask us what's going on with power sharing and the novel coronavirus. |
| 0:47.0 | So because I like nothing better than charts and categorizing people, there is a new version of the political compass quiz with different more UK-centric questions that I put in my free morning email and we |
| 1:06.0 | have now we've literally all just done and I thought would be a kind of fun talking point to discuss |
| 1:11.5 | I realize this means that it basically asks us all to do homework for this week's end. |
| 1:15.0 | So other than not particularly surprising result, then I am significantly further to the right economically than either of you and then Alva is basically like |
| 1:26.0 | is creeping up into that blue labor zone. |
| 1:30.4 | For people who haven't done the quiz, it splits the political spectrum into kind of left-right |
| 1:36.2 | axis and a liberal authoritarian or liberal communitarian or whatever language you want, |
| 1:42.2 | access. I don't think it's going to shock any of our |
| 1:44.2 | listeners and we are all in the Lib left square but you know I am I'm only just in the |
| 1:50.9 | Lib left square. The Lib right square is dangerously close. |
| 1:55.2 | Whereas yeah, Alver is one or two questions changing away from left off. |
| 2:02.1 | Really? Am I not? |
| 2:03.0 | I'm being deeply unfair. |
| 2:05.0 | I'm writing. |
| 2:06.0 | Because I'm squarely in the left woke thing, |
| 2:10.0 | but I'm surprised I'm so far to the left and kind of surprised I'm not further along the woke thing. |
| 2:16.5 | I mean like I'm quite squarely woke but I thought it would it would come out differently and I think |
| 2:22.3 | that that's a real symptom of how many things I answered don't know to more than anything else. |
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