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NS#130: Reshuffle, Revolt and Writing Gender

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 7 January 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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This week co-chairs Helen Lewis and Stephen Bush discuss the never-ending Labour reshuffle and are joined by Stephanie Boland to talk about gender in confessional writing. We then hear from George Eaton, down the line from the lobby, on the latest from Westminster. (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Stephanie Boland, George Eaton)

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1:04.0

Helen Lewis never-ending reshuffles, Tory splits over Europe and Stephanie Boland

1:08.4

joins us for the thorny question of whether or not men and women's voices are

1:11.8

treated different in serious literature.

1:14.1

And we have George Eaton down the line from Westminster with what's going on

1:17.7

and what's moving in the House of Commons. Hi I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this is the New Statesman podcast. Welcome to our relaunch, reshuffled, if you will, Stephen,

1:36.0

podcast, which we're trying something slightly different for this week.

1:38.0

As you'll notice, I have been much, you are very much the Ken Livingston of this podcast actually.

1:42.0

You've been appointed to co-chair the

1:44.2

podcast review and we will also be bringing George later in with a segment we might call down the line

1:49.9

from the lobby or we might call a pun on George's name but he doesn't he doesn't have much

1:53.9

input into that but let's see and but the good news is that there will be 50 to 60%

1:59.2

more Stephen Bush in this podcast than before. So let's start off talking about the

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