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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Welcome to a special edition of the New Statesman podcast which is entirely themed around Harry Potter.

Yes you might think that we've gone completely mad, but actually we've discovered in the office

that almost every political, social, economic problem can be explored through the medium of JK Rolling series about the boy wizard

later boring civil servant. I'm going to start off first of all by talking about politics with

Stephen Bush, our Stagger's editor and Anna Escovitz, our editorial assistant.

Hello both. Hello. And we're going to talk

about politics first, it's the obvious place for the new states to start. And Anna I'm going

to start with you because during the election campaign you wrote and unsuccessfully tweeted at JK Rolling a question and it sounds like it sounds like a very simple question which is can Wizards vote in muggle elections? But what are the implications of that?

Well, the issue with Wizards being able to vote in Muggle elections is really that

there's huge segregation politically between muggles and wizards and I feel like the

wizards are essentially controlling the muggle population because they can send their

Minister of Magic in to just go and tell the

Prime Minister what to do. So essentially in that regard he's a bit pointless and

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