I Want To Be In The Zoom Where It Happens
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🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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On this week's New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian, Stephen Bush and Patrick Maguire come to you live from a sell-out show at Zoom Arena! They discuss the latest from the coronavirus crisis before taking your questions on subjects ranging from Keir Starmer's shadow cabinet to universal basic income.
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| 1:14.2 | podcast. I'm Anusha Kelly and I'm joined by my colleagues Stephen Bush and |
| 1:18.4 | Patrick McGuire. So should we just start off Stephen and Patrick by having a quick chat about what's been going on over the weekend because it's been a really busy time in politics? |
| 1:29.0 | Yes, it has been. I had my first kind of disassociated Westminster out, which is particularly nerve-racking because usually you know |
| 1:36.2 | than Carolyn Quinn will politely gong you off if you're running over time, but there is no one to gong you off. |
| 1:40.9 | So you're like, oh God, am I just going to be that guy who causes the |
| 1:44.1 | pips not to happen on radio for the first time since World War II and the |
| 1:47.9 | slightly weird thing about it was usually there's kind of like oh there's one |
| 1:51.4 | there's one breaking news story but but within the last 48 hours, we've had Forrest Johnson being admitted to hospital with his condition obviously being more serious than we were led to believe. |
| 2:02.0 | We've had the resignation of the chief medical officer in the Scottish government |
| 2:06.2 | after it emerged and she had visited her. It's one of those stories which I can't help laughing |
| 2:11.3 | at even though it's not actually funny and I then |
| 2:14.3 | oscillate wildly between like feeling quite anxious about it because I think oh God |
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