NS#142: Spies, socialism and the SNP
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | There are around 48,000 new cases of lung cancer every year in the UK, but it doesn't affect everyone equally. 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. |
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| 1:05.6 | Look for lung cancer inequalities in the new states from Podcast. Well so Stephen I listened |
| 1:25.8 | to the podcast while I was away last week and I was grateful to you for saying that you |
| 1:29.6 | now finally appreciate how difficult it is to steer the conversation in any kind of, like it's like a canal |
| 1:35.8 | barge and you just have to tug very gently on it. |
| 1:38.0 | Whereas I see myself as like the zainy first mate who occasionally goes, let's go over there. |
| 1:44.2 | Yeah, I think that's probably true. |
| 1:45.1 | But so last week, I was in Uganda. |
| 1:47.3 | I went out with a charity to visit some secondary schools there. |
| 1:50.5 | And I didn't have any access to the internet. I got about you know 10 minutes a couple of times a day and I |
| 1:57.7 | came back and I sort of thought I'll drop in see what's what's actually happened and |
| 2:05.7 | realistically nothing that had materially changed anything had happened. |
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