Minority Report
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today's New Statesman Podcast, Anoosh Chakelian and Ailbhe Rea discuss Boris Johnson's vague announcement of a racism inquiry and whether it's a serious prospect, and then, in You Ask Us, they take your questions on the furore around changes to the Gender Recognition Act.
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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. Hello and I'm joined by my colleague Alvaray this week because Stephen's having some well-deserved time off to discuss Boris Johnson's Racial |
| 1:34.0 | inequality commission and you ask us what's going to happen to the Gender |
| 1:37.8 | Recognition Act. |
| 1:49.2 | So we woke up on a Monday morning to our favorite treat which is a telegraph column by Boris Johnson remember those they used to be a pretty regular feature of our politics |
| 1:54.3 | coverage. But this week he's written about the protests that have been happening over the weekend |
| 2:00.5 | and previous weekends condemning the actions of far-right activists but also giving |
| 2:06.0 | a sort of impassioned, very throat-clearing, bloviating Boris Johnson style defense of the |
| 2:11.8 | statues debate, obviously coming down on the side of wanting to protect the |
| 2:16.0 | statues from being pulled down and suggesting that to try and remove some of these monuments |
| 2:20.8 | would be akin to sort of photoshopping Britain's history or a politician |
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