NS #150: Englishness, X-men and equality

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🗓️ 26 May 2016

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This week, Helen and Stephen try their best not to talk about the EU. Instead they turn to Boris Johnson’s media strategy, MP’s expenses, and Labour and the idea of Englishness. They go down-the-line to the Lobby with George Eaton. Then Henry Zeffman joins to discuss the politics of the new X-men movie. You also ask us: what does the future hold for the Women’s Equality Party? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, George Eaton, Henry Zeffman)

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0:00.0	May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
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0:21.2	Do you hear that?
0:27.0	It might sound like nothing to you, but it's actually the sound of nuclear, wind and solar energy.
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0:38.3	everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing. Sound good to you? Find out more about our
0:44.8	zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and welcome to the New Statesman podcast.
1:04.6	Stephen do we have to talk about the EU?
1:07.8	No, no. Even I have reached a point of kind you know, I'm still really perhaps over invested in in the
1:19.2	outcome. I got very shirty with someone on Twitter the other day when they said, oh, you know, like,
1:26.2	they basically implied in the referendum didn't matter as much as a general election, and I became very irate.
1:33.7	You turned in the Hulk Bush.
1:35.7	Yeah.
1:36.7	Did that make you more or less angry than the people who said that the West Wing did in its early
1:40.5	seasons have a fine attitude towards women and they didn't know what you were talking about.
1:44.0	I think what I found more annoying about the, so I've been rewatching the West Wing with my partner and also because I've been listening
1:51.9	to this excellent rewatching the West Wing
1:53.8	podcast. Well I just started listening to that this one. I went out for a run this morning and
1:56.7	a drop that it because you know I'm really proud of myself and I started listening to it and
2:00.7	it is really good but I'm worried that because Joshua Molina is like a friend of
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