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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS #151: Vice, votes and videogames

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

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🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Stephen get to grips with Jeremy Corbyn’s Vice News documentary. Together they probe Labour’s media strategy and query whether Ed Miliband should come back. Then, from documentaries to dragons, the parliamentary recess provides an excuse to tackle role-playing videogames – and question why politics fans are often into world-building? You also ask us: when will Bernie Sanders accept that he is not going to win? (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush).

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0:00.0

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zero carbon generation at edf energy.com slash helping Britain. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this is the New Statesman podcast

1:04.5

Stephen do we have to talk about Europe? No no the good news is

1:10.1

despite the fact that I'm once again talking about Europe in this month's magazine and an MP didn't actually text me

1:16.3

This week's magazine text me saying I was becoming one of the crazy Europe people

1:21.5

We're not going to talk about it this week on the

1:23.5

podcast. Instead we're going to talk about the Vice, sorry, the Vice News

1:28.2

documentary, one of their PRs emailed to ask that we would change the reference to Vice News.

1:35.6

I'm going to call it News Vice instead.

1:37.4

News Vice, this is some great viral marketing we've got going on for Vice News.

1:40.8

That's how gonzo I am is that I don't even respect what they want to be called. going on on Jeremy Corbyn. I only appreciated how well put together it was when I thought to see are the

1:54.9

because my suspicion is these programs always reflect badly on the politicians who do.

1:58.4

You watch that Gordon Brown one with the weird Specky Ed balls

2:01.2

and weird Specky Ed milliban when they're like both 12 running around in some office in the houses

2:06.4

like the house of comrades right? Yeah. Yeah it's kind of amazing isn't it they're all

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