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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

New Statesman podcast: Episode Five

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

News & Politics, Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2013

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Rafael Behr, George Eaton and the Spectator's Isabel Hardman talk about the future of the Tory party, Helen Lewis and Felicity Cloake discuss this week's feature on the politics of fatness, and resident young person Alex Hern says "space" a lot.

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Cancel any time T's and sees apply. Hello and this week we're talking about Cameron and the EU, the most boring political

1:07.6

interviews of all time, the politics of obesity and the future of the space race. I'm joined by our political editor Raphael Bear and deep in enemy territory Isabel Hardman, the editor of Key House at the Spectator to talk about this week's politics.

1:26.8

Isabelle I'm going to come to you first and we'll talk very quickly about you've interviewed

1:31.2

Nadeen Doris. Bring that to life for us. How was that?

1:36.0

Well, I've got a real soft spot for the Dean. I have to have it. I know there's not many journalists who would say that,

1:41.1

but I think she's an interesting human politician and there's not actually that many of them I mean

1:47.3

Compared to I'm not going to name names but the worst interview I ever did was when an MP talked about how much they loved their

1:53.2

constituency which was a very boring constituency as well for an hour and refused to

1:57.8

say anything at all that was critical including they couldn't even criticize the

2:02.4

hearings they'd had on a select committee.

2:04.3

The Dean would just say what she thinks and I think that's really good for politics.

2:07.2

I think you want more people who you actually think that what's coming after their

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