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The Politics Show

NS#142: Spies, socialism and the SNP

The Politics Show

The New Statesman

News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Stephen discuss British politics since the election of Jeremy Corbyn: what has changed and what are politicians over-looking? Anna Leszkiewicz, the New Statesman pop culture writer, then joins to explore the BBC’s new production of The Night Manager and the enduring appeal of spy novels. You also ask us: Donald Trump or Ted Cruz? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Anna Leszkiewicz)

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0:00.0

May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get

0:08.0

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0:16.5

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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.

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 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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