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The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

NS#199: Milo and Macron

The New Statesman | UK politics and culture

The New Statesman

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🗓️ 23 February 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, Helen and Stephen discuss the fall of Milo Yiannopoulos. Pauline Bock joins with an update on the French elections and Macron's performance in London. And Anoosh Chakelian reports on concerns in Copeland. Plus: get your by-election predictions here!

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:16.5

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0:40.0

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0:45.0

avante west coast feel good travel. Hi I'm Stephen and I'm Helen and this week's new states from podcast the kids are

1:04.4

alt-right it's alt-right on the night also a noosh-mobile has fired up again and

1:10.0

has gone to Copeland to one of the other by-elections that's happening this week.

1:13.4

And Pauline joins us to talk about what's going on in the French elections.

1:17.1

Is it Macron, is it Le Penh?

1:18.8

They're both having rallies.

1:20.3

Let's see who's best. So Stephen, I know this is probably not your area of enjoyment in talking about politics,

1:31.0

but I did want to talk about this because I think it's an

1:32.6

interesting phenomenon so I've known about this guy my lienopolis for now five years

1:37.6

he used to be a tech blogger at the telegraph and then founded a site of his

1:41.3

own called the colonel and he was deeply unpleasant to a site of his own called the Colonel.

1:42.6

And he was deeply unpleasant to a couple of people that I knew.

1:46.5

And effectively kind of used to sort of slut shame them.

1:49.0

He didn't pay his wages.

1:51.7

So I imagine I like a lot of people have been having a kind of semi-deliberate

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