NS#203: Editors and Islamic State

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🗓️ 23 March 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In a podcast recorded before the terrible events of Wednesday afternoon, Helen and Stephen discuss George Osborne's new editorship at the London Evening Standard. The BBC's Mike Thomson joins to tell the story of an escape from the ISIS occupied city of Raqqa. And you ask us: will there be a snap election?

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0:26.0	And a Christmas light tangle is more than a tangle.
0:28.8	It's a tangle that somehow gets more entangled
0:31.1	the more you attempt to untangle it.
0:33.0	So, to the loft I go with just my Christmasy coffee for company.
0:38.0	And if I'm not back by New Year, Merry Christmas.
0:41.0	Our roasted Hazel Hot Chocolate is now at Costa.
0:44.0	That's Christmas.
0:45.0	Costa Coff made a little better.
0:47.0	The
0:56.7	Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and welcome to the new statesman podcast now the majority of this podcast was recorded before the terrible events outside
0:59.6	Parliament and on Westminster Bridge and we've decided that we think a period of
1:03.7	reflection on that is probably the best thing once the facts have been
1:05.8	established. So we've decided to continue with the podcast recording as
1:09.4	normal. So please enjoy and our thoughts are with everyone affected. So this week we are welcoming a new colleague to the fraternity of journalists George
1:30.2	Osborne has been announced surprisingly on Friday as the new
1:34.0	evening standard editor in kind of a funny I mean there are loads of it's not
1:38.8	funny there's no part there is a bit that's funny which is the bit where
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