Lockdown Two, Sceptic Avenue
The New Statesman | UK politics and culture
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🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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On today's New Statesman Podcast, Stephen Bush, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss the imminent return of lockdown, and how it's dividing the nation and government. Then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on the successes and failures of Angela Rayner as Labour's deputy leader.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
| 0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
| 0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. |
| 0:20.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. |
| 0:31.0 | Incident rates are far higher in deprived areas and there's too often a post-code lottery |
| 0:36.1 | when it comes to that all-important early diagnosis. |
| 0:40.0 | The New Statesman Podcast is sponsored by MSD, a research intensive global bio pharmaceutical company |
| 0:46.2 | active in several key areas of global health, including immunization and oncology. |
| 0:51.8 | They've recorded a special sponsored episode with the New Statesman |
| 0:54.9 | podcast in which thought leaders explore how the UK can and must tackle health |
| 0:59.8 | inequalities to deliver early diagnosis and treatment. |
| 1:04.0 | Listen to the episode now. |
| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the New Statesman podcast feed. On today's new states from podcast, Anush, Stephen and I discuss the second lockdown in England, |
| 1:29.0 | and you ask us, how is Angela Rayner doing as Labour's deputy leader? |
| 1:34.0 | In case you've been living under a stone for the weekend just to let you know England is heading into |
| 1:46.6 | another lockdown on Thursday night pending approval from the House of Commons. |
| 1:52.1 | Boris Johnson disrupted everyone's Halloween. He disrupted my pumpkin |
| 1:56.8 | carving to make the announcement on Saturday night. He nearly disrupted Stutly and Dancing. |
| 2:03.4 | But then the big discussion this week |
| 2:05.3 | as well as the fact that this was called for by sage |
| 2:09.2 | on the 21st of September and was called for |
| 2:11.7 | by the labor leader, Kirst Armour, and has already been implemented in Wales as a short circuit breaker. |
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