NS#187: Porn, PMQs and patriarchy

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🗓️ 8 December 2016

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, Helen and Stephen discuss Emily Thornberry's performance at PMQs and the Tory response to female authority. George joins with a report from the lobby. And writer Emily Witt, author of Future Sex, explores what female sexual freedom might mean today. (Helen Lewis, Stephen Bush, Emily Witt)

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0:53.0	And welcome to the New Statesman podcast.
1:05.0	Welcome to what hopefully sounds like a much cooler New States from a podcast because great update from the pod catacoom after months of you, Stephen, having to kind of man spread
1:17.0	uncomfortably around a really horribly shaped table. We've now got a circular table.
1:21.2	Yeah. So I can gaze at you with my beady eyes throughout everything that you're saying.
1:25.0	I want to start by talking about Prime Minister's questions.
1:27.0	And we'll move on to our main topic, but I just want to have a moment.
1:31.0	A moment to everyone. Oh actually I can't remember the tune to
1:35.1	bow down but if I could I would sing it about Emily Thornbury. Yeah so
1:39.4	David Liddington who's leader of the house stood in for Theresa May, because she's off in the
1:43.2	Gulf and a gathering with even more men than she's used to and she goes to Tory party receptions.
1:48.6	But that meant that Jeremy Corbyn also got a week off.
1:51.7	Emily Thornbury stood in and I mean
1:54.7	David Lillington did okay. Let's first of all give some mild props to David
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